SakuraMix XL is a three-way anime checkpoint merge tuned for soft pastel, light-novel style illustration - gentle diffused light, delicate shading and a tender romantic mood, while keeping the stable anatomy of the Illustrious ecosystem.Recipe: 0.45 x Shiitake-Mix (v2.0) + 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>Soft pastel palette and delicate light rendering from Shiitake-Mix</li><li>- Stable anatomy, posing and prompt adherence from WAI-illustrious</li><li>- A balanced, broadly compatible anime base from Illustrious-XL v1.0</li></ul>Great for light-novel cover art, spring and cherry blossom scenes, gentle portrait work, romance and slice-of-life illustration, soft-focus mood pieces and pastel character art. Add 'soft light, pastel colors, delicate shading' 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.

SakuraMix XL - Soft Pastel Light Novel Anime Merge (Illustrious)

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

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