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CyberIllustrious blends the artistic flair of Illustrious-XL with a big dose of CyberRealistic’s style. You still get all those cinematic, dreamy strokes, but now they come through with crisp, realistic detail.
If you want that painterly, elegant look but still want your images to feel sharp and lifelike, this is your model. It’s great for editorial vibes, soft glam, or even fantasy art that looks like a real photo. Basically, it just nails it.
It’s powerful, easy to use, and honestly? Prompting it is seriously fun.
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⚙️ Recommended Settings
Sampling method: DPM++ SDE Karras / DPM++ 2M Karras - SGM Uniform / Euler a
VAE: is already Baked In
Sampling steps: 30+ Steps
Resolution: 896x1152 / 832x1216
CFG: 4-5About (DMD2)
The special DMD2 edition of CyberIllustrious is created for faster, cleaner generations while requiring fewer steps.
DMD2 takes the balanced improvements of the standard release and optimizes them for speed, precision, and responsiveness, making it ideal for both SFW and NSFW workflows.
Expect tighter results, smoother control, and a model that reacts beautifully to the classic Illustrious prompting style.
Recommended Settings
Sampler: LCM
Schedule Type: Exponential
Sampling Steps: 8 (12 for extra fine detail)
CFG Scale: 1.5
⚡ These settings are optimized for DMD2 and are different from my standard Illustrious workflow!
🧠 Prompting Made Easy
Positive Prompt:
masterpiece, best quality, high quality, ultra-detailed, realistic, ... rest of promptNegative Prompt examples (optional):
cartoon, illustration, anime, painting, CGI, 3D render, low quality, watermark, logo, labeldeformed, deformed face, low quality, bad quality, worst quality, (drawn, furry, illustration, cartoon, anime, comic:1.5), 3d, cgi, extra fingers, deformed teeth, watermark, logo🩺 Optional ADetailer Settings
Adetailer model: face_yolov9c.pt
If you only want the main face being refined set 'Mask only the top k largest' to 1.🔗 Resources
Backup location: HuggingFace
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⚠️ Heads Up
This model can spit out some mature stuff. Use it wisely, and please, no cursed creations—we’ve really seen enough of those.
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Description
CyberIllustrious V5 marks a significant leap forward in realism, skin rendering, and overall image fidelity. Building on the strengths of V4, this version introduces enhanced skin tones, richer colors, and greater anatomical accuracy—delivering more lifelike and emotionally resonant results right out of the box.
V5 isn't just a visual upgrade; it's a comprehensive refinement. Facial features, especially eyes, have improved structure and clarity even before applying post-process tools. Lighting behavior has been fine-tuned for more natural highlights and shadows, while subtle details like pores, fabric texture, and color gradients feel more tactile and cohesive.
As always, the choice of negative prompts and samplers still plays a crucial role in shaping the final output, especially when pushing toward photo-realism—but V5 offers more flexibility and consistency across styles and workflows.
FAQ
Comments (19)
Congrats for the new version!
Thanks, man!
@Cyberdelia @SubtleShader My 2 favorites hit on the same day, CyberRealistic and BigLove!! Great work! Fireworks for sure!! :-D
always love your model! no matter it's Pony or IL. Keep up the great work and thanks a lot for the efforts!!
Insanely good... !
my goat tbh, can't wait to try V5
Can't wait to try V6!
very good but ignores clothing prompts too much. even in the official examples in the third one with the warrior the man is topless despite being prompted for armor. it is like that for almost every prompt I try. would be perfect otherwise
I disagree. I have created 5 pictures and published them. I think they are about showing what I prompted (not necessarily what I expected / wanted to show).
1. Author image: There are words suggesting that can be interpreted as more skin to bow shown (depending on the prompt and probably on past pictures that you created with the model)
2. My images: Show about the same effect. Nobody around, it's very hot, she will only react natureally to get heat up by flames
3. Only thing "long shirt" didn't work quite as I expected.
There are a lot of more suggestive words in the prompt, so the results are about what you could expect. If you want to prevent this, you have to clearly instruct / prompt that you do not want to see it.
@Raininosi I agree that it is generally good but out of 100 images generated there will be 10-15 where clothing is completely ignored for no good reason. This is in comparison to older versions and Pony variation where clothing is followed properly. I have done extensive testing with this between versions. I have created over 1,000 images with prompts and seeds kept identical to compare versions.
It is especially bad if you give prompts around body type. For instance if you have the prompt "toned, muscular, tshirt" you will find the tshirt prompt is ignored. Because apparently a toned man must always be shirtless. This is not the case in CyberRealistic Pony or older versions of CyberIllustrious.
I like generating shirtless as well but I would like the model to be more responsive to clothing prompts and not consider them as optional.
OK now i need someone to teach me how to train celeb loras on that !
Legend 👍
I love this checkpoint (V5.0) <3
With Euler A and Karras
35 steps and cfg 4
This is the next evolution to perfection. I previously came from CyberRealistic Pony, but it kind of plateaued/fell off after v6 or v8. This is the spiritual successor. More!
For samplers, of the recommended ones (DPM++ SDE, DPM++ 2M, Euler/Euler a, etc.), I have the best luck with: DPM++ SDE ~= Euler a > DPM++ 2M ~= Euler >> DPM++ 2M SDE. I have good luck with no scheduler.
I have merged this model with Plant milk Walnut ... it's better than i hoped thanks for this model <3 btw can i upload it to civitai ?
Sure, no problem
Can this model generate famous characters with good resemblance?
No, use CyberRealistic SDXL for this purpose
Checkpoint is Crazy work, it made my Lora totally pop out and Look hyper real, Good Job! totally Recommend
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