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    Atem is a dark, edgy, atmospheric checkpoint series, built around deliberate roughness. Heavy contrast, domineering characters, a drive to make your prompts edgier. The goal is output that resists being sanded into a generic anime look.

    What this model is good at

    - Gothic, horror-adjacent, and atmospheric compositions

    - Strong lighting contrast, deep shadows, selective glow

    - Characters with presence: dark elegance, quiet menace, mysticism

    - Cool color grading (teal, cyan, violet) with selective warm accents (blood red, amber)

    What this model isn't good at

    - Not built around explicit content. It can produce it, but I didn't tune it for that.

    - Not a clean, soft anime look. If you want polish and brightness, this isn't the tool.

    - Sampler: Euler Negative Dy, Restart, DPM++ 2M Karras. (Don't use Hiresfix for Euler Negative, unless you know what you are doing.)

    - CFG: 4-6 (higher CFG introduces "Splash Art Styles" occasionally, where the image is framed by white)

    - Steps: 30 for Euler Negative Dy. Feel free to use other steps for Restart and DPM++ 2M Karras

    - Resolution: Standard SDXL resolutions. Prefers 832x1216, 1024x1024, or 1216x832 for native performance.

    Prompt guidance

    -Atem works best with minimal negative prompts. A long negative neutralizes exactly the qualities this merge is built for. Trust the base and prompt sparingly against it. The recommended negative prompt:

    worst quality, (low quality, normal quality:1.3)

    -For atmosphere: lean into scene description (lighting, mood, environment) rather than quality tokens. Atem responds strongly to environmental cues.

    -For characters: describe specific aesthetic details (material, texture, expression) rather than generic quality words. "Black silk, torn at the edges" outperforms "high quality clothing."

    Merge composition

    Built on Illustrious XL 2.0 base, merged with 2.5D style models. Added dark fantasy LoRA, then re-merged with a few anime models to stabilise excessive artifacts.

    The point is to introduce structural noise that standard Illustrious merges sand away, while keeping the products stable.

    License and use

    Feel free to use outputs commercially. Merging into your own work is welcome credits are appreciated but not required.

    No training data restrictions beyond what the base license carries.

    If you build something interesting with this, I'd love to see it. Tag me on Twitter (@TridIsntAName) or drop a link in my dms!

    Description

    First CivitAI Release

    Checkpoint
    Illustrious
    by TridIsntAName
    Download (Beta) View on CivitAI
    anime
    horror
    dark
    base model
    gothic
    dark fantasy
    edgy
    checkpoint
    stylised
    atmospheric
    illustrious
    trid
    tridisntaname

    Details

    Downloads
    98
    Platform
    CivitAI
    Platform Status
    Available
    Created
    4/19/2026
    Updated
    4/28/2026
    Deleted
    -

    Files

    atemILL_v2.safetensors

    Size:
    6.46 GB
    SHA256:
    603af6db2b654df938278ccab3393e4e60f6bbda8b389833eefab5f675f37596

    Mirrors

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    Available On (1 platform)

    Same model published on other platforms. May have additional downloads or version variants.

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    Atem ILL - v2