I was super impressed with @RAMTHRUST's Black Magic, primarily the eyes and general expressiveness/sense of wonder, and wanted to see if I could bring it more into a more semireal environment. I merged it with NetaArt at a low strength, pushed in Faetastic Detailer with a Cinematic Lora to give it additional shading and realistic understanding. It generally works, I consider this an alpha as as still way more base anime 2.8D than semireal but it can sometimes nail a good compromise between with the right prompts.

I'm a big fan of Euler A in things like this, but it has worked fine with other traditional samplers/schedulers. It might have an issue with some prompts overexposing it, and I dont know why yet.

Recommended 2.8D/barely semireal prompting for this model is raw photo, realistic:1.3 cinematic photogenic, and anime, cartoon in the negatives, but YMMV.

Resources used:
https://civitai.com/models/338023/black-magic-xl - Black Magic XL 1.45

https://civitai.com/models/410737?modelVersionId=457853 - NetaArtXL 1.0

https://civitai.com/models/196977?modelVersionId=221487 - Envy Elegance (doesn't seem to work much because I was a dipshit, even with elegant)

https://civitai.com/models/134338?modelVersionId=293991 - Faetastic Detailer 24

https://civitai.com/models/432586/stylexl-cinematic-shot - CinematicShot