Illustrious version V2.0
The realism of characters varies vastly, depending on the data of that character; e.g. manga/anime characters will be much less realistic than a 3D game character. I kept the weight of the realistic checkpoint low so the already realistic characters wont become still image, but that also means the manga/anime characters will be still slightly unrealistic, in that case you can pair it with my realistic filter lora which works very well with this v2 ckpt.
Realistic filter [IL] - IL v1.0 | Illustrious LoRA | Civitai
Because of the high weight ratio of the v1 ckpt, this v2 ckpt will mostly perform similarly.
Recommendation:
Positive prompt: masterpiece, best quality, realistic
Negative prompt: worst quality,bad quality,bad hands,very displeasing,extra digit,fewer digits,jpeg artifacts,signature,username,reference,mutated,lineup,manga,comic,disembodied,cropped,amputee,bad foreshortening,what,guro,logo,bad anatomy,bad perspective,bad proportions,artistic error,anatomical nonsense,*******,out of frame,multiple views, text ( copyright name:1),
Sampling method: Euler a, DPM++ 2M karras.
CFG: 6-8
Size: 832x1216
(Feel free to try out other settings, if the results are too 2Dish, you can tune down the weight of the anime lora)
Merged Models
Illustrious-XL - v0.1 | Illustrious Checkpoint | Civitai
Evermore Illustrious XL - v1.2 Fp16 | Illustrious Checkpoint | Civitai
yomama 2.5D [Illustrious] [Pony] - Illustrious v1.0 | Illustrious Checkpoint | Civitai