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    CyberIllustrious blends the artistic flair of Illustrious-XL with a big dose of CyberRealistic’s style. You still get all those cinematic, dreamy strokes, but now they come through with crisp, realistic detail.

    If you want that painterly, elegant look but still want your images to feel sharp and lifelike, this is your model. It’s great for editorial vibes, soft glam, or even fantasy art that looks like a real photo. Basically, it just nails it.

    It’s powerful, easy to use, and honestly? Prompting it is seriously fun.

    📘 Get the most out of this model with the Illustrious / NoobAI Prompting: Master Guide.


    ⚙️ Recommended Settings

    Sampling method: DPM++ SDE Karras / DPM++ 2M Karras - SGM Uniform / Euler a
    VAE: is already Baked In
    Sampling steps: 30+ Steps
    Resolution: 896x1152 / 832x1216
    CFG: 4-5

    About (DMD2)

    The special DMD2 edition of CyberIllustrious is created for faster, cleaner generations while requiring fewer steps.

    DMD2 takes the balanced improvements of the standard release and optimizes them for speed, precision, and responsiveness, making it ideal for both SFW and NSFW workflows.
    Expect tighter results, smoother control, and a model that reacts beautifully to the classic Illustrious prompting style.


    • Sampler: LCM

    • Schedule Type: Exponential

    • Sampling Steps: 8 (12 for extra fine detail)

    • CFG Scale: 1.5

    These settings are optimized for DMD2 and are different from my standard Illustrious workflow!


    🧠 Prompting Made Easy

    Positive Prompt:

    masterpiece, best quality, high quality, ultra-detailed, realistic, ... rest of prompt

    Negative Prompt examples (optional):

    cartoon, illustration, anime, painting, CGI, 3D render, low quality, watermark, logo, label
    deformed, deformed face, low quality, bad quality, worst quality, (drawn, furry, illustration, cartoon, anime, comic:1.5), 3d, cgi, extra fingers, deformed teeth, watermark, logo


    🩺 Optional ADetailer Settings

    Adetailer model: face_yolov9c.pt
    If you only want the main face being refined set 'Mask only the top k largest' to 1.


    🔗 Resources

    Backup location: HuggingFace


    ☕ Support the Madness
    Liking what you see? Grab me a digital espresso (or a couple!). It keeps the creative energy going and helps bring more cool prompts and models your way.


    ⚠️ Heads Up

    This model can spit out some mature stuff. Use it wisely, and please, no cursed creations—we’ve really seen enough of those.


    💬 Want Better Prompts?

    Use this custom ChatGPT to auto-generate polished prompts for CyberIllustrious:
    🔗 [Try it now on ChatGPT]

    Description

    CyberIllustrious V4 is a quick update, released soon after V3.8 simply because - well - it was simply ready. It refines subtle details that had been bothering me - like sharper eye definition (before Adetailer) and brings improved skin texture.

    The choice of negative prompt and sampler can lead to different results and especially when aiming for realism.

    FAQ

    Comments (85)

    leepeter1231May 19, 2025· 6 reactions
    CivitAI

    this model is great to generate realistic style image, but it is a shame it cannot generate animal $%^# scene (while other illustrious anime style models can)

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    May 19, 2025

    Example? Picture of dog?

    leepeter1231May 19, 2025

    @Cyberdelia yes, you know what I mean, cannot provide example as this should not be allowed here lol

    tupuMay 19, 2025· 1 reaction

    @leepeter1231 I think he doesn't know about animals, maybe about young girls with penises, yes, that would be more likely....and the style is not realistic, its kind of CGI (computer-generated imagery) with girls with penis and no animals....lol....all and that the model is not all bad, it have a nice textures.

    leepeter1231May 19, 2025· 1 reaction

    @tupu I mean this model cannot generate girl $%^$^% with a dog

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    May 19, 2025· 2 reactions

    @leepeter1231 I think that if I understand what you mean, I won't be able to sleep normally anymore. I probably do know what you're getting at – but training that? That might be a bit too much to ask for my delicate little soul ;)

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    May 19, 2025

    @leepeter1231 You mean him/he as in me as a person?

    leepeter1231May 19, 2025· 1 reaction

    @Cyberdelia https://civitai.com/images/924327 something like this, but I wonder if this can be done in realistic style models

    timthomas131May 19, 2025

    @leepeter1231 Yes, Ponyrealism or the illus version of the creator. Its semireal at best.

    Further you push realism, less adherence remains. It is the law for Pony, Illustrious and any anime based model.

    And there are dedicated furry models, search for them.

    If you want more realism, you need postprocessing, or search for realistic helper loras.

    tupuMay 19, 2025· 1 reaction

    @leepeter1231 I know what u mean

    gausssidorov928May 19, 2025· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    10000/10 !!!!

    gausssidorov928May 19, 2025

    V4

    ElectricDreamsMay 19, 2025

    OMG!! You broke gaussidorov score with this one!! First 10000/10 I've seen!!!

    vamorandMay 19, 2025· 12 reactions
    CivitAI

    v4 is heavily overtrained. all upsides of it being illustrious based (variety of poses, styles, characters, compatible loras) are gone

    gausssidorov928May 19, 2025· 8 reactions
    CivitAI

    Я видать нагнул систему, она считает что мои фотографии реальные и не публикует их хотя я просто после генерации запускаю свой алгоритм улучшения )))))))

    AhuyKekMay 20, 2025

    В чём заключается алгоритм?))

    gausssidorov928May 20, 2025· 1 reaction

    @AhuyKek  В том что модель ищет лицо например разрешением 120 х 120 в своей базе( она не будет искать лицо лучшего формата а будет искать подходящее по размеру) а у меня ищет лицо 1024х1024 и уменьшает его до нужного формата и вставляет на место

    gausssidorov928May 20, 2025· 1 reaction

    @AhuyKek  и так с остальными частями фото

    Peter1337May 21, 2025· 1 reaction

    മുംബൈ യെല്ലോ ഗേറ്റ് പൊലീസ് സ്റ്റേഷനിലെ കോൺസ്റ്റബിളായിരുന്നു രാജേന്ദ്ര ധോണ്ടു ഭോസ്‌ലെ. ആദ്യ പോസ്റ്റിങ്. നഗര വീഥിയിലെ തിരക്കുകൾക്കൊന്നും മാറ്റമില്ല.

    timthomas131May 19, 2025· 15 reactions
    CivitAI

    Is this another long torso version?

    Horse girls everywhere.

    timthomas131May 19, 2025

    @Cyberdelia Its 2.0 fault, bad resolution? V9 pony was same, but not before and v10 is normal too.

    AFD_0May 19, 2025· 2 reactions

    @timthomas131 I don't get this problem with most newer Pony versions, but see it constantly with almost all Illustrious-based models. You can kinda prompt around the long/elongated torso issue with negatives, but Illustrious still has a bad problem with overly defined torsos (appears very muscular/boney and generally, unnatural body definition).

    timthomas131May 19, 2025

    @AFD_0 Just the newer versions of Illustrious or the old ones too? I dont use them much, so if just the new version have this fault, its resolution problem. 2.0 advertise itself as from 512x512x to1536x1536. I think none of them works. But ususal 1024p has problem too, it seems.

    AFD_0May 20, 2025· 1 reaction

    @timthomas131 I've noticed it from the start of realistic Illustrious models and just tonight noticed it in a Pony merge that obviously had a large portion of Illu mixed in. Early realistic Pony models had the long/stretched torso issue as well iirc, and it's mostly improved with Pony over time (until Illu started getting mixed), but I've never noticed the overly defined torso physique issue (oddly pronounced ribs/muscles) with Pony, just Illu. So far, I've only come across maybe 3 or so realistic Illu models that don't have this problem too badly (at least not as much as others). Perfection Realistic v3.0 and v3.1 by @6tZ is fairly good in this regard, Untitled v1.0b by @klaabu does this, but in a more natural manner, and same with Reality Master v2.0 AniMax by @hotfantasy_ai

    Other than a few 2K-specific models from @Felldude , I've been doing everything in 1152x960 from SDXL to Pony to Illustrious, so I honestly have no idea if resolution is playing any role.

    Most of my negative prompts use "(tall), (skinny), (long body), (long limbs), ((long torso)), stretched body, muscular", so that's probably having some effect on the stretched torso issue, but not sure why it's not as effective for Illu as it is for Pony.

    robertreeve359May 20, 2025· 1 reaction

    @AFD_0 Bad resolution example, but here its none of this, just torso.

    https://civitai.com/images/75153280

    AFD_0May 20, 2025

    @robertreeve359 Yes, that's a very extreme example! Having gone through every single Pony (and Illu) test from the @Lizardon1025 test samples, most recent Pony models usually aren't like that, unless they're very recent Pony-Illu hybrids (though I'm honestly not sure if that's the case with ZyloO's PR v2.3, but the earlier versions seem fine). Some very early realistic Pony models had stretched torsos as well (without the exaggerated bone/muscular definition), but until recently it hasn't been bad imo. I'm sure with time, the realistic Illustrious creators will make the same improvements as they did with Pony.

    klaabuMay 21, 2025· 2 reactions

    @robertreeve359 @AFD_0 chiming in - the elongated torso is usually caused because a) bad resolution chosen by the user, b) lack of training images with said resolution, c) lack of concept prompt, leaving room for hallucination.

    I've tested ny illustrious model up ro 2036px, it works great, but - it can and does make long torsos if you're not locking concept in with prompts.

    I find often that people have got very used to the way Pony prompting works - just 175 tokens of vomit, and when working on Illustrious, they often struggle cause they lack the proper prompt architecture.

    AFD_0May 21, 2025

    @klaabu Good info, thanks! Any idea what's causing the overly-pronounced muscular/bone structure on Illustrious torsos? Even on results with little or no torso stretching/elongation, many Illu models still exhibit oddly exaggerated ribs and/or distended stomach that's not present in any SDXL or Pony models. Some (like yours), do this in a more natural, realistic manner, but with most others it just looks weird and somewhat alien.

    klaabuMay 21, 2025· 3 reactions

    @AFD_0 It’s due to a combination of dataset bias, aesthetic compression, and latent overfitting. Use targeted negatives or body-focused sliders to rebalance this effect. I'm actually releasing one over the next few days that helps with natural toned look :)

    AFD_0May 21, 2025· 3 reactions

    @klaabu Awesome, looking forward to it, thanks again!

    jasongriffis394May 22, 2025· 3 reactions

    @klaabu "I find often that people have got very used to the way Pony prompting works - just 175 tokens of vomit, and when working on Illustrious, they often struggle cause they lack the proper prompt architecture"

    Illustrious clips are nothing special. They are not t5 or LLM. You can add 500 token gpt noise, the base is booru tags. Nothing to do with long torsos.

    klaabuMay 23, 2025· 2 reactions

    @jasongriffis394 that’s fair, but missing the point slightly. My comment wasn’t about the CLIP’s intelligence—it was about prompt tuning. Pony gets away with bloated prompts because it leans heavily on pattern saturation. Illustrious needs tighter architecture because it doesn’t interpolate the same way. It’s not about LLMs or intelligence—it’s about how token relevance impacts latent injection. Prompt sloppiness on Illustrious breaks the image. Simple as that.

    suede2031691May 24, 2025

    It's not that hard to solve this problem, I made a model that specifically solved this problem, but it was decided that the character was too young to be killed off.

    Use the lora in the link to make N long torsos/short torsos (with the same seed and cue word) with various camera angles and character poses, train a lora to use the long torsos as reg images, and uniformly add a tag such as “long Torso” to the original cue word.

    It's only difficult to prepare the image, because it has to consider the character generalization problem, and it's difficult for current real style models (it can't recognize people's race like other sdxl models).

    driver83784May 21, 2025· 5 reactions
    CivitAI

    выглядет реалистично

    Kagemusha666May 21, 2025· 7 reactions
    CivitAI

    Probably a Noob question (sorry in advance ^^) : do i use the Cyberrealistic Negative Embedding for Pony or the SDXL one for the Illustrious Checkpoint?

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    May 21, 2025

    Just use simple negative prompt: "worst quality, low quality, normal quality, lowres, low details" - you can just remove the negative prompt completely.

    Kagemusha666May 21, 2025

    @Cyberdelia Thnx!

    brunobarbosaMay 21, 2025· 10 reactions
    CivitAI

    Sorry for the ignorance, but what's the difference between this model and cyberrealisticXL_v57? Which one is better for realism, hands, etc?

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    May 21, 2025· 1 reaction

    This is based of Illustrious, a anime model. CyberRealistic XL is pure SDXL and lot more realistic. So basically they are both based on a different core .

    henMay 25, 2025· 8 reactions
    CivitAI

    Versions 2 and later have a clear bias towards female anatomy, almost every time I try to generate a male I get males with female parts. Version 1, while less refined in terms of overall polish, handles male anatomy much better. It's a shame the newer versions almost completely focus on females.

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    May 25, 2025

    Try 1boy, male man etc. for example "large male man"

    nghbhJun 4, 2025· 2 reactions

    have you tried not being gay ?

    TheCALMay 27, 2025· 5 reactions
    CivitAI

    v4 face detail with atelier is INSANE

    xperia256May 27, 2025· 5 reactions
    CivitAI

    What is the upscaler model you use for hires fix and what denoising value do you use for it? it's super sharp but I couldn't do it with the popular ones like 8x_NMKD-Superscale_150000_G and 4x_NMKD-Superscale-SP_178000_G etc.

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    May 27, 2025

    Ultimate SD Upscaler in Forge (4x_NickelbackFS_72000_G)

    xperia256May 27, 2025

    Thank you! this is much better now.

    TheCALMay 29, 2025· 1 reaction

    I do fine with 4x_NMKD-Superscale-SP_178000_G on A1111, but ill try out that nickelback aswell

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    May 29, 2025

    @TheCAL The difference is actually minimal, I think. If you place them side by side, you can see some differences, but whether it’s better or worse.... don't really know

    pink0909Jun 2, 2025

    i can recommend these 2 i tested as best ones when sharpness is important https://openmodeldb.info/models/4x-realsr-df2k and https://openmodeldb.info/models/4x-UniversalUpscalerV2-Sharp

    EpiduralJun 4, 2025

    @xperia256 check out your result with, since this is a more realistic model https://openmodeldb.info/models/4x-PurePhoto-RealPLSKR

    xewodo1522292Jun 2, 2025· 7 reactions
    CivitAI

    My favorite model to use, it is really good. Reacts to prompts like you would expect from Illustrious models.

    One thing i dislike is there is lack of variations of asians, japanese, chinese etc... I am not sure how making these works but cant the filesize just be increased to accomodate for more info/data?

    Eitherway really good model, works kind of like other Illustrious models just that is realistic. Somethings might not always work perfect but regardless this model is close to perfect.

    Thanks to creator! for this masterpiece <3

    tikele3156107Jun 8, 2025

    If you didnt already know you can use loras for that :D

    MairFuntaJun 4, 2025· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    Hi,

    It is know that some illustrious models have noobai merged into them, I would like to know if this model is one of them... I am just asking because of the licenses. Illustrious allows commercial use but noobai does not!

    Your model is great, but to use it I want to be on the safe side.

    By the way your pony one is also great!

    regards,

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    Jun 4, 2025· 1 reaction

    No noobai models were harmed when making this model

    MairFuntaJun 5, 2025

    @Cyberdelia Great! Thanks!

    bestiesforeverbvp650Jun 5, 2025· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    Best for anatomical studies for sculptures and artwork

    nicetry20010Jun 6, 2025· 12 reactions
    CivitAI

    im just so tired of this pony skin, when are we gonna have skin that look nice like sdxl or flux.

    civitaicompetite823154Jun 6, 2025· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    I've noticed that you can push the dimensions to 1024 x 1536 with minimal distortions.

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    Jun 7, 2025· 1 reaction

    Yes it's possible. Even my standard CyberRealistic SD1.5 can push to extreme limits.

    mykloJun 7, 2025· 5 reactions
    CivitAI

    nice checkpoint, fingers problems

    garretstuart76614Jun 7, 2025· 8 reactions
    CivitAI

    I reverted back to 3.8 as 4.0 kept turning some males into females no matter how much I fought the prompts.

    Duldiro2505176Jun 11, 2025· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    Perfect! Nice first impression to illistrious

    fayt64Jun 13, 2025· 6 reactions
    CivitAI

    So when you say "Sampling method: DPM++ SDE Karras " you mean "dpmpp_sde" as Sampler in KSampler and "Karras" as scheduler ? I am still learningk

    ogbtjyqat450Jun 14, 2025· 2 reactions

    yes

    TJ13Jun 19, 2025· 7 reactions
    CivitAI

    This is my favorite illustrious realism model. It can create incredibly detailed clothing and hair, and do a respectable job with faces and skin. It isn’t flux, but it is so much cheaper and way more fun.

    bhoppingJun 20, 2025· 13 reactions
    CivitAI

    Why do my chicks have dicks, im being catfished

    TurboduderinoJun 25, 2025· 2 reactions

    The AI is trying to tell you something...

    webertnakamura40Jun 22, 2025· 6 reactions
    CivitAI

    Did this checkpoint became unavailable for onsite generations? What happened?

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    Jun 22, 2025· 2 reactions

    Yes, I guess it lost the auction this week. It will hopefully get available next week (Friday)

    https://civitai.com/auctions

    webertnakamura40Jun 22, 2025· 2 reactions

    @Cyberdelia Oh, i didn't knew about the auctions until now. Thanks for answering me! I hope it becomes available soon! I like this checkpoint a lot!

    JD1997_Jun 23, 2025· 1 reaction

    @Cyberdelia That's got me curious, how come there are new generations being made and published on site considering it's not available at the moment?

    Cyberdelia
    Author
    Jun 23, 2025· 2 reactions

    @JD1997_ a lot of users (like me) are using it locally.

    JD1997_Jun 25, 2025· 1 reaction

    @Cyberdelia How does one do that? I'm still learning the ropes.

    JD1997_Jun 26, 2025· 1 reaction

    @Cyberdelia Thanks man

    savage_henryJun 24, 2025· 5 reactions
    CivitAI

    Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! Please bring this back for onsite generation!

    DmonpornJun 25, 2025· 5 reactions
    CivitAI

    Can't believe it's not a featured model this week. So much better than most other realism.

    TurboduderinoJun 25, 2025· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    Best realistic model yet, too bad its out of generation...

    _crz_Jun 28, 2025· 7 reactions
    CivitAI

    A pretty model but has probably the worst prompt adherence out of any model ever created. It has literally no idea what anything is and 98.8% of booru tags dont work? *shrugs

    _crz_Jun 28, 2025· 2 reactions

    Also, how did we go from sd1.5 models with 15 fingers to illustrious models with exactly 3 fingers? Shit is crazy its 2025

    jjbrown1592245Jun 30, 2025· 6 reactions
    CivitAI

    Nice

    NightCap66Jul 1, 2025· 9 reactions
    CivitAI

    will there be an update soon? love the new cyber realistic pony, but cyber illustrious is my favorite

    ChunkyKongJul 2, 2025· 10 reactions
    CivitAI

    OMG thank you so much. The Chat GPT idea is awesome. I have learned so much and not just about prompts. It taught me how to properly set up my face detailer and then recommended that i use controlnet to set up a pose i wanted. And then i described all of the differences between the prompts for cyberrealistic. This is just amazing.

    aitrancerJul 2, 2025· 9 reactions
    CivitAI

    I tested quite a few trending realistic IL models and unlike others I must say prompt adherence is pretty good and combined with the sleek looks v4.0 is one of the best checkpoints for this imo