Updates: 12/16/23 - Uploaded version 2

This model was also created with parts of Aniverse! Samael1976 has authorized it, so please go support him as well!!!

So Why Another Checkpoint:

Many have wanted a bit more 2.5dish. So, I wanted to see about getting that to you all. This checkpoint will try to maintain that 2D look with a splash of 3D in there. Of course some prompts may pull out a more 3D look; while others may go full 2D....but hopefully that does not happen to often. LoRas will of course affect the look as well; but either way...I hope you all enjoy!!!

The Process:

Starting with RealCartoon3D V11(was working on a 12 at the time) I was trying to get a more 2Dish look going. I was doing this because many wanted something that was more 2.5D (The checkpoints used for merging do/did not have restrictions on checkpoint mergers or are able to have different permission when sharing merges). I also baked in the VAE (vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned). I tried ClearVAE, but it would mess up from time to time (which may have been my computer). I did not want this issue to fall to anyone that downloaded this model, so I did not use that VAE. In the process of the merges, it looks like one of the models contained Aniverse information. This was not intentional; but as you can see the results of RealCartoon and Aniverse do some pretty nice results. Samael1976 and I talked and decided to allow it to move forward as more of a collaboration. I hope you all enjoy!!

The Settings:

Width: 512 (flip width and height if doing landscape style image)
Height: 904 (of course you can go smaller and I have done higher, but this number just looks good with the 512 width)
Sampling Method: "DPM++ 2M Karras most of the time, but "DPM++ SDE Karra" and "Eular A" work well too. Have not really done much with the others.
Sampling steps: 30-50 normally (30 being my starting point, but going up to 45 a lot of the time).
Hires.fix settings: Upscaler (R-ESRGAN 4x+, 4k-UltraSharp most of the time), Hires Steps (10-20, with 20 being my normal), Denoising Str (0.34 - 0.45 normally), Upscale (1.5 or 2 does well)
Clip Skip: 2

Would run ADetailer to help enhance the eyes/face if the subject is farther in the scene. Be careful running with many blurred subjects in background as it may target them and make the face similar to your main subject.

Some settings you an run on the A1111 web-Ui to help get the images without crashing:

set COMMANDLINE_ARGS=--opt-sdp-no-mem-attention --lowvram --opt-split-attention --xformers

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License & Use

This model is open access and available to all, with a CreativeML OpenRAIL-M license further specifying rights and usage.

1. You can't use the model to deliberately produce nor share illegal or harmful outputs or content.
2. The authors claims no rights on the outputs you generate, you are free to use them and are accountable for their use which must not go against the provisions set in the license.
3. You may re-distribute the weights. If you do, please be aware you have to include the same use restrictions as the ones in the license and share a copy of the modified CreativeML OpenRAIL-M to all your users (please read the license entirely and carefully).
Please read the full license here Stable Diffusion

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- In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation

- For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way

- To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others

- To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual

- To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others

- For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation

- For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics

- To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm

- For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories

- To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation

- To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use).

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RealCartoon - 2.5 - V2