(9/26/2026): Distilled ckpt will not be updated. Use the new standalone acc LoRA here. After v2.4. All versions will be the "base" version (not distilled).
Update log and version info: link.
RDBT [Anima]
A general finetuned base mode. Gives you the quality as it should be. From wallpaper level digital art, to 5-min sketch.
Dataset contains ~10k images, handpicked by professional amateur artists, captioned by LLM. The criteria for evaluation are not visual appeal, but the painting technique and the level of completion.
Some cover images look ridiculous; they're just for demonstration purposes for corner cases.
Useful links:
RDBT | Digital Art: Beginner friendly 16-step ckpt. Optimized for digital art style.
RDBT | Original LoRA: If you're an advanced user and want to minmaxing everything.
16-step Acc LoRA: Style friendly, less AI slop, compared to the official Turbo.
Usage:
Settings:
Base version: CFG 4 and steps 24+.
Distilled version (8s, 16s, discontinued): CFG: 1. Steps: 8 or 16.
Prompt:
Always specify @style in prompt, or use a style LoRA. Otherwise, you will get random/mixed style.
Unlike most finetuned models out there. This model does not have overfitted default style. Because the dataset is big enough. It's a feature not a bug (see below FAQs).
Quality tags:
You don't need quality tags. The fine-tuning dataset has higher quality than "masterpiece". Thus quality tags don't have effects. Omitting those redundant tokens allows LLM to pay more attention on other words.
FAQs:
Why doesn't this model have a default style?
If a model has a "default" style (ignores prompt and is always active). We call it "overfitted". Technically, "default" style is not a feature, it's a bug. This means the training dataset is not big enough, and the model has lost its ability to generate other styles.
The goal of RDBT model is to reproduce styles, not one style, but every style, as accurate as possible. As some of you know, I use this model to aid in drawing. I need unique textures and details, instead of uniformed 2.5D AI slop style.
You decide what style you want, not me.
RDBT can't remove nor resist overwhelming Al slop effects
Too long, see: link.
Sharing merges using this model is not allowed.
This mode is a free and it will always be free. This "restriction" won't affect anyone. It's only aimed at those who steal others' models to sell.
Known model thieves: NukeA.I (selling this model behind paywall on tensorart).
Because he is such a jerk I wrote a story about it. Also contains a guide for trainers about "how to bake special trigger word into your model".
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ooo more steps approved model (0.32b) gota see that.
0.32 is pretty good at text (comparable success rate to v0.24 (maybe bit worse than it) = much better than v0.25 to 0.29) and can be mostly convinced to follow styles (get lost 3d flash-bang), also does compositions well (still has stroke at times, but its better/ as good as 0.24), just at times does not understand abstract things (for some reason very stubborn at not generating image that does not distinguish between floor and wall) but that minor issue :) +10
the latest version definitely feels like an improvement over previous versions. Styles work a lot better now, better prompt understanding, less 3D/generic slop bias, more dynamic poses and composition,backgrounds can get pretty detailed as well. I'd say it's a big win.
Boss, now that the 1.0 version is out, I'll leave here my request for you to do your magic in a version that doesn't degrade diversity (perfectly aware of what that implies for generation time/stability). IMO the ideal choices for your loras would be a stability focused distill, like the ones you've been cooking so far, for quick and pretty anime shots, and a diversity focused one, when you actually want it to be a suitable replacement for Illustrious.
I give up doing step distillation. It's too much for me.
Love 0.32.b
v0.32 is such a banger.
I'm dropping step distillation. 1) my cheap distillation really kills the quality. yes, 4-step works but the quality is sh*tty worse than extracted cosmos lora from a very very far away model. Then I changed it to 12-step distillation, looks better but the problem is still there.
2) seems anima official has their plan to do step distillation (aka, turbo, 4/8-step model). They have the money and recourse and full dataset. I don't.
3) if you need higher stability or speed, you can stack the extracted cosmos lora or the anima-turbo, basically can achieve the same thing, probably even better
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but this model will still be guidance distilled. So you can still use cfg 1 and run the model 2x faster and get similar output. I consider it as a free improvement. It adds a little bit stability, enough to fix many small errors like hands, and won't noticeably affect diversity, and is cheap to train.
damn 😢️
also screw model thieves
Thank for still making one of my favorite models x) ! it's totaly understable at this point after seing what they said and the liscence fee and all that to let them do it.