DAMN! [Pony/Illustrious Realistic Model]

"DAMN!" (c) - my first thought when the finetuning ended and I saw the final results.

UPD 19.05: Illustrious-based version REBORN is out!
It turned out really costly to train, but I feel like the end result is well worth it. This version was more like "proof-of-concept" and I'll keep refining it. The goal was to preserve as much concepts/characters as possible, yet make it look realistic. It's not perfect, but it will be eventually.

If you want to support me or help me cover the costs:
https://boosty.to/coyotte/donate or Bitcoin 1BiNMKwVADy68rUrRxCR3mr3TGewWvrtUV.
Every donation will go towards developing chekpoints, workflows and loras (this stuff is costly). I have big plans, but little means to fulfill them 💀

Important prompt structure:
Positive prompt: masterpiece, best quality, realistic
Negative prompt: bad quality, worst quality, low quality
For now, you still need these, but as the model will get more training, the need for them will decrease.

RECOMENDED PARAMETERS:

◦ Sampler: DPM++ 2M SDE / DPM++ 3M SDE / DPM++ SDE

◦ 30-40 Steps.

◦ CFG: 4-6

◦ The model was on trained mostly on 1024x1024, 832x1216, 1216x832, 896x1152, 1152x896 resolutions, so it could help the quality if you used these (although that's not necessary - it behaves nicely on other aspect ratios as well).

◦ Highres fix: Upscale by 1.35-1.5, denoising strength ~0.4, upscaler - 4x NMKD Superscale or Siax.

For the distant shots of people you probably wanna use highres.fix and/or adetailer.