Red Sea is a furry SDXL lightning model designed to default to realistic/semi-realistic look, based on seaart lab's excellent furry model.

General usage:

Image sizes are the same as seaarts, ideally around 1024x1024, 1152x896, 896x1152 but variants should be fine.

It should default to realism/semi-realism however if there are issues the best tags to push this are : Photo, raw, realistic,

E621 tags work fine, seemingly with or without underscores.

Example pictures were done with auto1111 using high res fix to upscale by 1.5.

any sdxl VAE should be fine, I simply used the standard one for sdxl.

Samplers/steps :

This is a lighting model and uses very few steps/low cfg. the ones I tested with and work were:

Euler a with 8 steps and 2 cfg

DPM++ SDE Karras with 4 steps and 2 cfg.

Ideally you will need a 8gb vram card, you maybe able to use less with the fp8 features in auto1111/comfyui:

in Auto1111 this is done by going to settings > Optimizations > FP8 weight and setting this to enable for SDXL.

in comfyui adding --fp8_e4m3fn-text-enc --fp8_e4m3fn-unet as launch parameters.

Note this will lower the quality of the images.

Quirks:

Apart from usual anatomy issues poses can be a bit bland and might need clever prompting to get around.

Credits:

Gungie, who posted this model on Civitai

A_B - A wonderful friend to Gungie, who has consistently made SD more fun. ^^