I really, really like the Artium v1.0 Model (credit to FrenzyX).But it sometimes kind of drifts off into photorealistic output, which is not what I desire from it, so I decided to make a merge variant that would mostly behave like Artium but be more likely to fall back to anime style than photorealistic.In the end I decided to merge in some amount of the anima_pencil-XL checkpoint, which itself is a merge of blue_pencil-XL and Animagine XL.Regarding permissions: I'm very much an amateur at this, so I just copied the more strict set from Artium.Regarding prompts and generation settings: Up to you really.I like to keep my prompts simple - see the sample images I uploaded. No need to overcomplicate things anyomore.I mostly use DPM++ 2M Karras with 20 steps, but that's a matter of personal preference and because these settings will work well with most models.I did a bit of trial and error before finding a merge recipe that seems to have achieved my intent.One of the experiments I did was take the weight differences between Artium v1 and SDXL and add 50% of that back into Artium for what I called Artium 150%. This resulted in a more anime-like model that near enough achieved all I wanted on its own without breaking.I also tried adding the weight differences between animapencil and sdxl into Artium, but the outcome had more more flat tones and less texture than where I was intending to go.The end model I uploaded here is a merge between those two models and another 10% of the weight differences between Artium and SDXL added in, giving the model effectively 135% of Artium and 25% of Anima_Pencil.I compared about 250 generated images between my model, Artium v1.0 and a 20% Weight-Sum between Artium and AnimaPencil to make sure I didn't break anything while I was at it. Looks good.About 50 of those images were specifically to check if hand generation got worse - which I'm happy to report it didn't. There were no statistically different outcomes looking at 90 different hands per model.

Artium_anima

This is effectively 135% of the Artium and 25% of Anima_Pencil in terms of weight differences compared to sdxl.

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