SimpleMix XL is a three-way anime checkpoint merge tuned for clean, flat, minimal illustration - crisp lineart and simple shading without clutter, while keeping the stable anatomy of the Illustrious ecosystem.Recipe: 0.45 x WAI-Simple-Illustrious (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:/n- Clean flat colors and crisp lineart from WAI-Simple-Illustrious<ul><li>Stable composition and strong prompt adherence from WAI-illustrious</li><li>- A balanced, broadly compatible anime base from Illustrious-XL v1.0</li></ul>Suits character art, sticker-ready illustrations, simple backgrounds, webtoon and flat-color style work, and any scene that needs clarity over detail. Add 'flat color, clean lineart' to the prompt for the strongest effect.[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 merged-checkpoint series.

SimpleMix XL - Clean Flat Anime Merge (Illustrious)

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

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