Seph's Illustrious - Cinematic Anime

Preview images are "full final", only prompts (no LoRA's) -> ADetailer & Upscaled!
If you feel that there are too few preview images, enable rating R, as I usualy aim for that.

Aims for:

• dark with vibrant colors (goth, neo-/noir)

• generaly artistic images

• 2.5d characters (realistic, but still anime)

Settings:

For my full workflow (with Forge and DynamicPrompts), please see: https://civarchive.com/articles/14013

• Sampler: Euler & Simple

• CFG: 5-8

• Steps: 12-14 as draft/preview, 24, 32, 42 for finals, 64 for super favorites

• Aspect Ratio: should work with most, preview images are: 9:16 , 21:9 / render at: 720x1280, 1536x640, or 720x1536 (10:16 -> cellphone "portrait" wallpaper)

Prompt:

• + high_quality, highres, beautiful, detailed, masterpiece, best_quality, absurdres, 8k, HDR , very aesthetic , intricate_details , detailed_hands, elegant_fingers

• - poorly_detailed, jpeg_artifacts, worst_quality, bad_quality

Happy imagination!

Also, I really would like to see what you guys created! :)

History / Recommendation:

All statements are in regards to 21:9.
Meaning either 1536x640 or 1720x720 "draft" renders (14 steps)!

v1:

• Initial release

v2-experimental:

• Raw quality droped - was workaround-able with img2img upscale + adetailer

• Tried for slighly more realism, worked

• Tried to preserve anime char, failed

• Tried to improve "adult appearance" (on certain characters), failed

• Failed to preserve the "intense black/colors"

v3-VAE:

• Raw quality improved (back as v1 or even better)

• Preserved "intense black/colors", yes

• Age up characters, success (for most ; others are at least better than they were in v2)

• Prompt adherence better than v2

• Recommended IF: you prefer high quality characters with decent but obviously AI landscape/backgrounds

v4-VAE-fp16

• Better "dark/black"

• with few exceptions, most character appear more adult (at least when prompted for)

• better backgrounds

• either good "prompt adherence" or "good misunderstanding"

• Info: stay at CFG 6 or lower, seems by increasing contrast an "overcooking" has happend, allthough effects are rare.. about 1-2% at CFG:6-8.. HOWEVER, for local gen, this chance can be totaly worth it as it also produces incredible images. -->EDIT: This was caused because i prompted for things, that are no longer required (as much).

• Recommended IF: you prefer characters with high quality landscape/backgrounds, while "full body" is not as good, portrait/macro shots are awesome