CatMix XL is a three-way anime checkpoint merge built on CAT - Citron Anime Treasure, blended for rich color, clean rendering and broadly usable quality anime output.
Recipe: 0.45 x CAT - Citron Anime Treasure [Illustrious & NoobAI] (v1.0) + 0.30 x WAI-illustrious-SDXL (v17) + 0.25 x Illustrious-XL-v1.0, applied to the UNet only (VAE and text encoder inherited from the first model).
What you get:
CAT's polished anime rendering and vivid, well-separated color
- Stable anatomy, posing and prompt adherence from WAI-illustrious
- A clean, broadly compatible Illustrious base for everyday generation
Suits general anime illustration, character art, vivid scenes, key visuals and any project that needs a dependable, good-looking anime base.
[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.