NovaMix XL is a three-way anime checkpoint merge tuned for bright, crisp cel-shaded illustration.
Recipe: 0.50 x Nova Anime XL (il v18) + 0.30 x WAI-illustrious-SDXL (v17) + 0.20 x Illustrious-XL-v1.0, applied to the UNet only (VAE and text encoder inherited from the first model).
What you get:
Bold, clean lineart and vivid saturated color from Nova Anime XL
- Stable composition and strong prompt adherence from WAI-illustrious
- A balanced, broadly compatible anime base from Illustrious-XL v1.0
Suits character art, key visuals, cheerful scenes and illustration work that needs punchy color.
[Recommended settings] Sampler DPM++ 2M or Euler a, 28-32 steps, CFG 7, 832x1216. Danbooru-style tags work best. Use bf16 where possible - fp16 can soften output.
[License] CreativeML Open RAIL-M, inherited from the base models. Please credit the base models if you redistribute. Part of the AniFusion / merged-checkpoint series.