A versatile and artistic Illustrious model merge family primarily based on ZU_KI's fantastic ZUKI anime ILL model. As always, this merge is tuned to my personal aesthetic preferences, and simply happens to give me the best (in my opinion) outputs from an Illustrious-based model architecture.
Description
A remarkably simple experiment, made from a two-step half-and-half merge of two test models from the Augenstein and SteinCustom families, merged into the previous version of SteinIllustrious at 50%. Adds a bit more depth, retains the detail, style, and creativity of the family, and grows in versatility. I also recently discovered the FreeU extension within Forge, so if you're having trouble getting your results to look similar, you may want to experiment with it as well. Assuming you use Forge.