Cartoon 2D animation is a custom merge checkpoint designed for expressive, stylized 2D illustrations with flexible rendering modes. Whether you're aiming for soft painterly portraits, vibrant cartoon sketches, or detailed comic‑style compositions, this model adapts to your prompt structure and delivers consistent, emotionally rich results.

It excels at character‑driven storytelling, fantasy scenes, cozy interiors, sci‑fi drama, and visual novel aesthetics — all with clean color harmony and confident anatomy.

🤌🏻 Best for:

• 2D anime/cartoon portraits with expressive emotions and clean shading

• Narrative scenes — from magical forests and moonlit beaches to futuristic corridors and quiet rooms

• Consistent character design across multiple renders and angles

✨ Core Features:

• Soft lighting and smooth shading without heavy depth or specular highlights

• Illustration-style rendering with readable silhouettes and gentle gradients

• Harmonious color palettes with controlled saturation

• Confident anatomy and stylized proportions

• Works well with both cozy and dramatic compositions

☝ Tips:

This model responds dynamically to your prompt's opening tags. Here's how to guide its style:

1. masterpiece, best quality Soft 2D realism/Minimal cartoon stylization, smooth gradients, cinematic lighting

2. toon, flat colors, highres, amazing quality, 4k, high resolution, ultra-detailed, newest Flat cartoon/Clean outlines, cel-style shading, vibrant and playful

3. masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, 4k, high resolution, ultra-detailed, comicbook style Graphic stylization/Mid-level cartoon look with strong details and confident forms

4. masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, 4k, very aesthetic, high resolution, ultra-detailed, absurdres, newest, cartoon, toon Aesthetic hybrid/Stylized but detailed, with atmospheric depth and emotional tone

5. masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, 4k, very aesthetic, high resolution, ultra-detailed, absurdres, newest, cartoon, toon, comicbook style High-resolution clarity/Sharp rendering, rich textures, and modern polish

• ADetailers: face_yolov8m, person_yolov8n-seg, Eyes, hand_yolov8n, face_yolov8n, full_eyes_detect_v1, Anzhc%20Face%20-seg, Anzhc%20Eyes%20-seg-hd, PitHandDetailer-v1b-seg.pt

• Hi‑Res Fix/Upscaling: lollypop

• VAEs: sdxl_vae and xlVAEC_c9. xlVAEC_c9 is just brighter

• Samplers and Schedulers: Euler a Automatic

• Steps: 20 or 35

• CFG: 5

• Width and Height: 768×1344, 832×1216

• For storytelling, specify mood and setting (e.g., “fantasy garden”, “moonlit ocean”, “urban dusk”, “cozy room”)

🩵 All examples are made in SD A1111 You can use this site to better understand the settings of the examples 🩵

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