KawaiiMix XL is a three-way anime checkpoint merge tuned for bright, cute pop illustration - vivid flat colors, playful sparkles and an expressive kawaii energy, while keeping the stable anatomy of the Illustrious ecosystem.
Recipe: 0.45 x RIN AnimePopCute Illustrious (v6.0) + 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:
Bright pop palette and cute expressive faces from RIN AnimePopCute
- Stable anatomy, posing and prompt adherence from WAI-illustrious
- A balanced, broadly compatible anime base from Illustrious-XL v1.0
Great for kawaii character art, sticker and merchandise style illustration, playful mascots, colorful casual scenes, cheerful social-media art and any image that should feel bright and fun. Add 'vivid colors, cute, pop style' to the prompt for the strongest effect.
[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 merged-checkpoint series.