Magic Mouse Illustrious
is a custom multi-merge by Mori no Seirei
that aims to combine distinct and beautiful stylings that are tempered against more classical anime imagery to create a lovely blend between gorgeous, high-polish generations, and crisp, high-quality, modern anime styles.
Quality Tags:
masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality,
Negative Prompt:
bad quality, worst quality, lowres, worst detail, sketch, censor,
(Generations look nice without them, but you will notice a difference if you include both the positive and negative tags to your prompt. These ones are just the minimum)
Recommended settings:
DPM++2M Karras
Sampling Steps: 20+
Resolution: 896x1152
Upscaling: Latent (Remacri works well also)
Upscaled by: 1.25 - 1.4
Denoise Strength: 0.55 - 0.7
(These are MY preferred settings. Play around with them and find what works for you!)
SDXL_VAE is baked-in by defaultI don't have the buzz required to enable this checkpoint for generations, so please give it a shot on ➡Yodayo!⬅
Version Information
- Version 3.0:
Changelog:
Adjusted the recipe ratios so that OfMiceAndDoe_v2 is now more present.
Changed the recipe ratios so that all supporting checkpoints share an identical percentage of the merge.
Used an updated version of BlackMagic (v4.2)
Folded-in Animij_v6 as a supporting checkpoint for stability without compromising style
Gens are generally more consistent, with less distortion of the eyes.
This version uses:
OfMiceAndDoe_v2.0, IllustriousBlackMagic_v4.2, NovaOrangeXL_v1.0, and Animij_v6.0.

- Version 2 REDUX:
This is an alternate variant of Version 2.4.
Instead of trying to improve MagicMouse I simply REMADE the current version of MM using entirely up-to-date versions of the illustrious models used in my merges.
This version doesn't iterate on my artistic vision, and should be considered a tangential fork of v2.4.
It was more like a side-quest, a "what-if", to see what it would look like if I used the updated models.
This version uses:
OfMiceAndDoe_v3.3, IllustriousBlackMagic_v4.2, and NovaOrangeXL_v14.
and as such, loses some of the dramatic charm that OM&D_v2 had (due to its later iterations changing its recipe), and gains some finer details in return. This version takes on a much more classical look versus the more stylized MM_v2.4


- Version 2.4:
A merge of
OfMiceAndDoe_v2 by FallenIncursio
IllustriousBlackMagic_v3 by RAMTHRUST
That attempted to smooth out some edges by incorporating a secondary "classical" anime-styled checkpoint as reinforcement.
The weight of Mice&Doe's style is lifted without losing its charm, or having its outlines be diminished, by incorporating BlackMagic, then it's given a boost to its depth and texture by the inclusion of NovaOrange.

v2.4 changelog:
Started over. Re-merged OfMiceAndDoe and BlackMagic with a different weight ratio that better accomplished my goal. (it was a marginal improvement)
Merged in a NovaOrangeXL version as a stabilizer to smooth out some of the inconsistencies that I was noticing.
Gens are now more stable
Better overall detail
Eye distortions have been lessened. (This will likely be my next focus for either a v2.4+ or a v3 update)
Hand distortions have marginally improved
- Version 1:

A merge of
OfMiceAndDoe_v2 by FallenIncursio
&
IllustriousBlackMagic_v3 by RAMTHRUST
That is meant to take the gorgeous, but heavy styles of Mice&Doe, and rein them in a bit by merging them with the more classical anime look of BlackMagic
Description
Adjusted the recipe ratios so that OfMiceAndDoe_v2 is now more present.
Changed the recipe ratios so that all supporting checkpoints share an identical percentage of the merge.
Used an updated version of BlackMagic (v4.2)
Folded-in Animij_v6 as a supporting checkpoint for stability without compromising style
Gens are generally more consistent, with less distortion of the eyes.


















