🔹☁️ Hello, this is Ether Blu Mix ☁️🔹

Ether Blu Mix is a stylized anime model specialized in creating character illustrations with vibrant colors, expressive backgrounds and a painterly feel. Based on Silicon29 and Counterfeit 3, I consider this my interpretation of a pastel-mix style of model.

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* Version 6 Update:

Hey everyone,

Ether Blu 6 is focused on capturing some of the "clean" and slightly animated feeling of Ether Blu 4 while retaining the vibrant colors and painterly texture of Ether Blu 5. I also looked to improve its lighting as I enjoyed the atmospheric light seen in TMND and Lunar Radiance.

More detailed changes:

Base model has changed from

AOM3 + Counterfeit3

to

Counterfeit3 + Silicon29Dark

• AOM3's NSFW aspect felt unnecessary as Ether Blu isn't NSFW focused. Silicon29 offers similar flexibility while having better low-light performance.

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Pastel Mix, Basil Mix, and Ayoni Mix have been replaced with AW Painting 1.1 and Lunar Radiance. Pastel Mix was removed as it felt redundant as I'm utilizing the LORA's it was created with. Basil and Ayoni were removed to utilize models that felt more '2D' focused. In particular, AW Painting for the faces, Lunar Radiance for lighting.

The added LORA's look to compliment and enhance Ether Blu's pastel, painterly feel as well as its new lighting style.

The VAE is baked (finally) as I kept seeing generations with the wrong VAE applied.

Thanks everyone, busy at the moment and will update everything soon.

Happy holidays! 🎉

🚧 Description is currently a WIP. Thanks for your patience. 🚧

* Huggingface Archive

☄️ Generation Recommendations

Use whatever sampler, steps, CFG you prefer.

Sample images were generated with

• Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras

• Steps: 20 - 28

• CFG: 7 - 11

• Clip Skip: 1

• ENSD: 31337

Increasing CFG can lead to more vibrant results.

Negative Prompt Example:

"NSFW, (worst quality, low quality:1.3)"

Recommended VAE:

Waifu Diffusion VAE kl-f8-anime2

Strongly recommended as the model was tuned with this VAE's color and saturation in mind.

Sample images were further upscaled using AUTO1111 Hi-res fix. Please utilize it if you wish to achieve similar results.

• Latent (nearest-exact)

• Upscale by: 2

• Denoising strength: 0.55

Are your results changing too much after Hi-res fix? Please try 4x-foolhardy-Remarci.

• 4x-foolhardy-Remarci

• Upscale by: 2

• Denoising strength: 0.45 - 0.55

🖊️ Prompting Advice

As Ether Blu 6 leans heavier into the anime aesthetic I recommend using the suggested positive and negative prompts of AOM3.

• masterpiece, best quality,

• NSFW, (worst quality, low quality:1.3)

The model was mixed and tested using these prefixes and will give you the most consistent style results. Of course you're free to prompt however you'd like as booru-style models tend to be quite flexible in prompting.

If you look at the prompts included with the sample images they demonstrate that even with a very loose and vague style of prompting you can achieve fun, high quality images.

Experiment and give the AI some freedom to interpret your ideas!

General guidelines:

• Prompt in the style of anime/booru-style models, "masterpiece, best quality, ..... "

  • More anime style images

• Prompt in the style of photography/non-anime models, "professional photograph of ..... "

  • More realistic images, higher style variety

📘 Model Merging Info - v6

I have no training or real knowledge of machine learning. I merged the model using the information provided on WarriorMama777's AOM model page as well as the info from these Rentrys. I very arbitrarily mixed the UBM weights of each model, modifying the values with trial and error until I was visually satisfied with it.

I utilized the SuperMerger extension for AUTO1111 by hako-mikan.

▼ Merging

• MODEL A: Counterfeit-V3.0_fp16.safetensors

• MODEL B: Silicon29-dark.safetensors

Weight Sum merge - ❌ Don't Use MBW

• Alpha: 0.5

  • Model: Counter3-Silicon29DarkSum-05

▼

• MODEL A: Counter3-Silicon29DarkSum-05

• MODEL B: nightSkyYOZORAStyle_yozoraV1PurnedFp16

• MODEL C: colorBoxModel_colorBOX.safetensors

Triple Sum merge - ✔️ Use MBW

• Alpha: 1

  0,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.2,0.3,0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5,0.3,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2

• Beta: 1

  0,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0,0,0,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.25,0.25,0.15,0,0,0,0.15,0.3,0.5,0.6,0.6,0.6

  • Model: Counter3-Silicon29DarkSum-05-Yozora-ColorBox

▼

• MODEL A: Counter3-Silicon29DarkSum-05-Yozora-ColorBox

• MODEL B: awpainting_v11.safetensors

• MODEL C: lunarRadianceMix_luasNight.safetensors

Triple Sum merge - ✔️ Use MBW

• Alpha: 1

  0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.5,0.5,0.5,0,0,0,0,0,0

• Beta: 1

  0,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.8,0.5,0.8,0.2,0.1,0.1

  • Final Model: EtherBluMix-6

▼ LORA Mix

• xlimo768: 0.2

• dpep4-768-000004: 0.3

• sttabi_v1.4-04: 0.1

• Jordan_3: 0.25

• breakA-lighting-isolation-768:

  1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.3,0.3,0,0,0,0,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.2,0.2

• nijipretty_20230624235607:

  1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.2,0.2,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2,0.2

• lightingv2:

  1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.4,0.4,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.4,0.4,0.4,0.4,0.2,0.2

Models Used:

*Counterfeit-V3.0_fp16.safetensors
CBFBA64E662370F59D4AA2AA69BF16749FCE93846CCCE20506AEE5DF01169859

*Silicon29-dark.safetensors
de329f31ad222a0d765897aa38796811276691288b104099523649bdf1ef9708

*nightSkyYOZORAStyle_yozoraV1PurnedFp16
E7BF829CFFD9EA034DA3B59FA13421F52AA4E4ED74FCBBEEFBF9CFB2F97C329E

*colorBoxModel_colorBOX.safetensors
93A20525F51798309AF22AC6E8285E61CF563A88F1EE00AA9F544CA939E63181

*awpainting_v11.safetensors
E7AAB5067D84D2BDE9A4E610CBF9E5A2BC4F62D8ECFBE7150628FD20EFB5A7D5

*lunarRadianceMix_luasNight.safetensors
1E50E77B17170BE3AA87B73814798A51617774DFF5FE1F884773686F7B98B258

💙 Credits

Thank you to WarriorMama777 for providing AOM and other various mixes as well as detailing your workflow and inspiring me to try mixing my own models.

Thank you to Luna for sharing your process on creating Kenshi and Aurora. It deepened my understanding of model making as well as inspired me to mix LORA's.

Thank you to hako-mikan for creating the SuperMerger extension allowing a quicker workflow for merging.

Thank you to gsdf, rqdwdw for Counterfeit.

Thank you to Xerxemi and Xynon for SD-Silicon.

Thank you to YozoRaAru for Night Sky YOZORA and Color Box.

Thank you to DynamicWang for AWPainting.

Thank you to Jemnite for Lunar Radiance.

Thank you to CTD for Dpep4, Xlimo and lightingv2.

Thank you to dolphinz for Sttabi.

Thank you to SatyamSSJ10 for Jordan 3.

Thank you to ashen-sensored for breakA lighting isolation.

Thank you to Terry9993 for Niji Default style.

Thank you to AUTO1111 for creating the web UI.

Thank you to StabilityAI for starting everything with Stable Diffusion.

Thank you to the entire SD community for continuing to openly share and create.

🚧 Description is currently a WIP. Thanks for your patience. 🚧