Daring Hydra is an attempt at a lifelike realistic model. v1.2 is actually the result of four different attempts to improve from v1.1, which is pretty tough to do. All four attempts actually went in (using 54rt1n's quad merge) to the final release, so it's quite a bit different than the previous version. Recipe in the model details.

This one feels a bit less photorealistic due to it being more desaturated, but was a large enough improvement in other areas I think it's worth trying. That being said, I'm going to have to figure out how to target some of the really nice things from v1.1 that were clearly lost.

I'm keeping the image gallery clean, but you can post whatever you want in the gallery. For any users, post your best images (with prompts) and I will use them for DPO in the future.

This model holds up pretty well even at high iteration steps and CFG. You can see my current workflow in the sample images.

Hearts/5-stars if you want me to continue working on this one.

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Disclaimer:
This model is not intended to produce CSAM. Do not use it for this purpose.