A versatile and artistic Illustrious model merge family primarily based on ZU_KI's fantastic ZUKI anime ILL model. As always, this merge is tuned to my personal aesthetic preferences, and simply happens to give me the best (in my opinion) outputs from an Illustrious-based model architecture.
Description
Using extensive Merge Block Weighted merging, and experimenting with SuperMerger across about a hundred more variations, this is essentially V16 blended with the first six versions of the model in an effort to get back some of the aesthetics of those, while keeping the general improvements in the model over the last year. It would be impossible to list the exact recipe for hundreds of slight changes over months worth of experimenting, but essentially, this is closer to the original aesthetic style of SteinIllustrious, thanks to leaning heavily on the early versions in merging. As always, no Early Access gating.