A Colossus arise..

Deep under a mountain lives a sleeping giant, capable to eighter help humanity or create destruction...

This Checkpoint is capable to produce nearly everything.. Colossus is very good creating extremly realistic pictures, anime and art. I am working on this since months together with my twin brother.

I am constantly improving this project. Please help me with this project with your feedback. Send in reviews, pictures and feel free to leave a comment.

General: Every version has its benefits and weaknesses. Here are some infos regarding the versions. Way down below there are some tricks... also if you want to create animal based characters or horror checkout my Loki project, which is a fork of Colossus: (it is might even better than Colossus)

https://civitai.com/models/114547?modelVersionId=123836

About: Version 6.11:

- sharper and more detailed pictures than 5.08.

- can create outstanding art

- maybe use lower cfgs than in my other versions

About: Version 5.08:

- More creative than 4.32

- a tiny bit less photorealistic than 4.32; try both if you want photorealitic images and compare them.

About: Version 4.32:

- more consistent than 3.70

- in my opinion sharper images than 3.70

note: v2.03 is still more creative. It's always worth a try to campare them. For photorealistic images use definitely 4.32.

I would highly recommend using DDIM with v4.32 and v3.70. (Feel free to experiment with other samplers of course)

About: Version 3.70

For this checkpoint I merged a own old experimental checkpoint (a very highres but useless checkpoint) with Colossus V2.03 and about 25 percent from my brothers checkpoint to bring in more art. https://civitai.com/models/87083/newdawn

positive changes:

- much more details than Version 2.03

- extremely photorealistic results

- art and anime (2D pictures) are still possible

- consistent (sort of)

Why is it experimental?

- sometimes it can be wild... Featuring smaller details more than the main object. I think this can be also a feature :-)

- Version 2.03 is slightly more creative than 3.70.

- a optional pruned version is available now. It is more or less untested. I mean it should work fine.

About: Version 2.03

Version 2.03 is more stable and creative at the moment but is a bit less realistic. Still it's a very good checkpoint. It has the VAE baked inside. Also this one just needs around 2GB on your hard drive instead of 4GB.

Note:

Version 2.03 and 3.70 pruned doesn't need a VAE anymore..

If you want to use it in FP32 ((Full precision)) or if you want to use a custom VAE download Version 2.0 instead.

Best sampler in my opinion with Version 2.0:

Euler a, UniPc, DPM ++ 2M Karras

DPM ++2M SDE Karras, DDIM, (very good for photorealism)

Experiment with it and show me the results in the gallery.

Version 3.70 prefers DDIM in my tests so far.

Colossus neads some guidance regarding styles.. give it a simple style idea to work with. If the style isn't showing up try to give the style more importance. Here is a example.

((anime art:1.3))

Suprise me which styles are actually working on this thing :-)

Do not use this version with: ng_deepnegative_v1_75t ;this causes some weird issues.

For my tests I used this negative prompt: (this negative prompt was created by Sebastian Kamph; check out his amazing Videos on YouTube)

canvas frame, (high contrast:1.2), (over saturated:1.2), (glossy:1.1), cartoon, 3d, ((disfigured)), ((bad art)), ((b&w)), blurry, ((bad anatomy)), (((bad proportions))), ((extra limbs)), cloned face, (((disfigured))), extra limbs, (bad anatomy), gross proportions, (malformed limbs), ((missing arms)), ((missing legs)), (((extra arms))), (((extra legs))), mutated hands, (fused fingers), (too many fingers), (((long neck))), Photoshop, video game, ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, 3d render

If the result looks oversaturated or got outlines try to lower the cfg-scale or use the dynamic Thresholding (cfg fix). You can also experimenting with the resolution. this thing can handle even up to 1000x1000 images, however this can sometines result with errors.. feel free to experiment with this as well

Disclaimer and Warning: This checkpoint is fully uncensored. Only your imagination is the limit. Beware of this.. It's not intented to create just porn but it can be very horny. I would advice to consider this and maybe add NSFW in negative prompts... Don't use this to harm others... Please use this responsible! You are fully responsible for your actions!