A specialized Illustrious merge focused on high-quality anthro furry generation, with particular strength in elephant and overall anthro coherence. This is my first attempt at a merge, enjoy!

Merge Recipe

Checkpoint Stage:

• Nova Furry XL

• Yiffy Dreams Illustrious → Intermediate result

• Intermediate result

• WAI-Illustrious-SDXL

Baked LoRAs:

• Eleptor's Furry Anthro LoRA (Anima/Illustrious/Pony)

• Furry Anthro Lora: Elephants

• Eleptor's Furry Anthro OCs: Danica Phant

• Shiny NAI Style for Pony / Illustrious

• Illustrious Style Pack

• Cherry-gig Western Style (Anima/Illustrious)

Strengths

• Strong anthro and species coherence across a wide range of animals

• Particularly solid elephant features (trunks, tusks, ears, body structure, and fur/skin detail)

• Good / performance inherited from the Yiffy Dreams and Nova Furry bases

• Cleaner, more polished rendering from WAI + Shiny NAI

• Mild western comic / illustrated influence from the Cherry-gig style LoRA

This model is intentionally biased toward anthro content rather than being a general-purpose Illustrious checkpoint.

Recommended Settings

• Sampler: Euler a or Euler

• Steps: 25–35

• CFG: 3.5–5.5 (4–4.5 is a good starting point)

• Clip Skip: 1 or 2

Suggested positive prompt base:

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masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, absurdres, 
furry, anthro, detailed fluffy fur, detailed face, expressive eyes

Additional LoRAs generally work well in the 0.4–0.7 range depending on strength.