IronCatFateToon

Making models is a thing I do for fun. So if you like what I do? You can help me out by just using the model and leaving a review!

IronCatFateToon's goal is to be able to create nice looking anime style images with vibrant colours, more simplistic anime (cartoony) colour/style look and with influence of Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works styling.

This checkpoint requires a VAE, I recommend kl-f8-anime2, I've also used it for the examples. Edit: Since the original upload of this checkpoint, I've updated v1.0 itself and reuploaded the checkpoint with the VAE baked in. If you prefer the checkpoint without it baked in, download the v1.0-no-vae version.

In order to achieve what's just been promised I used MeinaMix V8 as the base checkpoint, I then merged two of my style LoRA's into MeinaMix V8; Anime vibrancy & simplifier Style (Merge ratio of 0.4`) & Fate/stay night: UBW Style (Merge ratio of 0.6`) . And finally I merged the result of that with the checkpoint Mistoon_Anime. Where I did a weighted merge, 70% was used from the results of me merging the LoRA's into MeinaMix V8. And 30% was used for Mistoon_Anime. (Note: I didn't use the exact same Anime vibrancy & simplifier Style LoRA when merging, I retrained on the same dataset from that LoRA for a more nuanced look that complimented MeinaMix V8 better i.m.o.)

Some things you might recognize from Fate/stay night: UBW in this checkpoint, is in the way how eyes, scenery, city, cityscape, sky, grass, trees, certain 2.5D angles et cetera are generated. The anime/cartoony look is a combination from my Anime vibrancy & simplifier Style LoRA and Mistoon_Anime. While MeinaMix V8 as a base gives in my own opinion a really sollid base for good looking art.

I haven't used any embeddings in the example images so you should get a good idea, in what the checkpoint can create on its own. I generated the images using some wildcard libraries, so the prompts might sometimes seem random.

Advice:

• I would recommended a clip skip of 2

• I personally like lollypop as an upscaler a lot, it gives anime images a nice soft upscaled touch.

• I am personally a fan of using DPM++ SDE Karras with 15 steps and when Hires fixing, I like to use 10 for Hires steps and a denoise of about 0.35 or 0.4. Most example images use 512x768 as base resolution.

• If you want the same vibrant, high contrast style look from my images you've seen, mostly in the images with girls, I suggest the following starter prompt: (masterpiece, best quality:1.4), cinematic light, colorful, high contrast, the prompt cinematic light is optional but I've used it in most of the example images since I liked the look. The high contrast prompt may sometimes do bad in certain NSFW generations, if you notice it in a seed you can try to remove it.

  • The starter prompt is not necessarily needed, I also included 2 examples where I just typed out a story based prompt and only used the negative prompt like below. And those images also came out great i.m.o.

• I would advice the following starter negative prompt in general to get the look you see in most of my example images: (worst quality:1.2), (low quality:1.2), (lowres:1.1), (monochrome:1.1), (greyscale), multiple views, comic, sketch. You can also use my full negative prompt from my sample images, if you liked the look of them.

  • The bad-artist negative embedding seems to work pretty nice too, which you can try instead of my suggested negative prompt.

This model wouldn't have been possible without these awesome creators:

• @Meina for MeinaMix V8

• @Inzaniak for Mistoon_Anime

• hakurei for kl-f8-anime2