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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: 4-5About (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.
Recommended Settings
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 promptNegative Prompt examples (optional):
cartoon, illustration, anime, painting, CGI, 3D render, low quality, watermark, logo, labeldeformed, 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
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This model can spit out some mature stuff. Use it wisely, and please, no cursed creations—we’ve really seen enough of those.
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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)
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)
Example? Picture of dog?
@Cyberdelia yes, you know what I mean, cannot provide example as this should not be allowed here lol
@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.
@tupu I mean this model cannot generate girl $%^$^% with a dog
@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 ;)
@leepeter1231 You mean him/he as in me as a person?
@Cyberdelia https://civitai.com/images/924327 something like this, but I wonder if this can be done in realistic style models
@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.
@leepeter1231 I know what u mean
10000/10 !!!!
V4
OMG!! You broke gaussidorov score with this one!! First 10000/10 I've seen!!!
v4 is heavily overtrained. all upsides of it being illustrious based (variety of poses, styles, characters, compatible loras) are gone
Я видать нагнул систему, она считает что мои фотографии реальные и не публикует их хотя я просто после генерации запускаю свой алгоритм улучшения )))))))
В чём заключается алгоритм?))
@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
@AhuyKek и так с остальными частями фото
മുംബൈ യെല്ലോ ഗേറ്റ് പൊലീസ് സ്റ്റേഷനിലെ കോൺസ്റ്റബിളായിരുന്നു രാജേന്ദ്ര ധോണ്ടു ഭോസ്ലെ. ആദ്യ പോസ്റ്റിങ്. നഗര വീഥിയിലെ തിരക്കുകൾക്കൊന്നും മാറ്റമില്ല.
Is this another long torso version?
Horse girls everywhere.
@Cyberdelia Its 2.0 fault, bad resolution? V9 pony was same, but not before and v10 is normal too.
@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).
@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.
@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.
@AFD_0 Bad resolution example, but here its none of this, just torso.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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 :)
@klaabu Awesome, looking forward to it, thanks again!
@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.
@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.
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).
выглядет реалистично
Probably a Noob question (sorry in advance ^^) : do i use the Cyberrealistic Negative Embedding for Pony or the SDXL one for the Illustrious Checkpoint?
Just use simple negative prompt: "worst quality, low quality, normal quality, lowres, low details" - you can just remove the negative prompt completely.
@Cyberdelia Thnx!
Sorry for the ignorance, but what's the difference between this model and cyberrealisticXL_v57? Which one is better for realism, hands, etc?
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 .
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.
Try 1boy, male man etc. for example "large male man"
have you tried not being gay ?
v4 face detail with atelier is INSANE
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.
Ultimate SD Upscaler in Forge (4x_NickelbackFS_72000_G)
Thank you! this is much better now.
I do fine with 4x_NMKD-Superscale-SP_178000_G on A1111, but ill try out that nickelback aswell
@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
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
@xperia256 check out your result with, since this is a more realistic model https://openmodeldb.info/models/4x-PurePhoto-RealPLSKR
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
If you didnt already know you can use loras for that :D
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,
No noobai models were harmed when making this model
@Cyberdelia Great! Thanks!
Best for anatomical studies for sculptures and artwork
im just so tired of this pony skin, when are we gonna have skin that look nice like sdxl or flux.
I've noticed that you can push the dimensions to 1024 x 1536 with minimal distortions.
Yes it's possible. Even my standard CyberRealistic SD1.5 can push to extreme limits.
nice checkpoint, fingers problems
I reverted back to 3.8 as 4.0 kept turning some males into females no matter how much I fought the prompts.
Perfect! Nice first impression to illistrious
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
yes
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.
Why do my chicks have dicks, im being catfished
The AI is trying to tell you something...
Did this checkpoint became unavailable for onsite generations? What happened?
Yes, I guess it lost the auction this week. It will hopefully get available next week (Friday)
@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!
@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?
@JD1997_ a lot of users (like me) are using it locally.
@Cyberdelia How does one do that? I'm still learning the ropes.
@Cyberdelia Thanks man
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! Please bring this back for onsite generation!
Can't believe it's not a featured model this week. So much better than most other realism.
Best realistic model yet, too bad its out of generation...
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
Also, how did we go from sd1.5 models with 15 fingers to illustrious models with exactly 3 fingers? Shit is crazy its 2025
Nice
will there be an update soon? love the new cyber realistic pony, but cyber illustrious is my favorite
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.
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
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