CatMix XL is a three-way anime checkpoint merge built on CAT - Citron Anime Treasure, blended for rich color, clean rendering and broadly usable quality anime output.Recipe: 0.45 x CAT - Citron Anime Treasure [Illustrious &amp; NoobAI] (v1.0) + 0.30 x WAI-illustrious-SDXL (v17) + 0.25 x Illustrious-XL-v1.0, applied to the UNet only (VAE and text encoder inherited from the first model).What you get:<ul><li>CAT's polished anime rendering and vivid, well-separated color</li><li>- Stable anatomy, posing and prompt adherence from WAI-illustrious</li><li>- A clean, broadly compatible Illustrious base for everyday generation</li></ul>Suits general anime illustration, character art, vivid scenes, key visuals and any project that needs a dependable, good-looking anime base.[Recommended settings] Sampler DPM++ 2M or Euler a, 28-32 steps, CFG 7, 832x1216. Danbooru-style tags work best. Use bf16 where possible - fp16 can soften output.[License] CreativeML Open RAIL-M, inherited from the base models. Please credit the base models if you redistribute. Part of the AniFusion / merged-checkpoint series.

CatMix XL - Quality Anime Treasure Merge (Illustrious)

v1.0 - initial release. Three-way weighted merge, UNet only.

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