This is a merged model that excels in 2.5D anime style.
It was created to test AutoMBW as well.
Guide
The image above was generated using the following settings
VAE should be kl-f8-anime2.vae
I generated the images using the following settings
Steps: 40,
Sampler: DPM++ SDE Karras,
CFG scale: 15,
Size: 512×704,
Clip skip: 2,
Hires.fix is required for this model.
Denoising strength: 0.6,
Hires upscale: 2,
Hires steps: 11,
Hires upscaler: Latent (bicubic antialiased),
I usually use CFG Scale Fix when generating images.
Dynamic thresholding enabled: True,
Mimic scale: 7,
Threshold percentile: 95,
Mimic mode: Half Cosine Up,
Mimic scale minimum: 0,
CFG mode: Half Cosine Up,
CFG scale minimum: 3.5
This is not necessarily the best setting.
You may change it according to your preference.
Tips
Combined with a very nice LoRA, the result may be even better
There are many other great LoRAs out there