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Zootlustrious [Aesthetic Illustrious XL Refinement] - v2.0

ZootAllures9111
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7/16/2025
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Anime girl with short brown twintails wearing a school uniform with a red bowtie, smiling happily and reaching towards the viewer with her hand.
Young girl in a nightgown sitting barefoot on a bed, holding a phone and looking out a window at a vivid starry sky with the Milky Way visible.
Close-up of Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII holding a glowing white orb, winking, with an index finger raised, surrounded by colorful flowers and light rays.
Blonde woman with twin braids wearing an ornate armored dress and golden crown with blue oni horns, seated on a throne in a grand throne room, holding a scepter.

Recommended Prompts

1girl, masterpiece, best quality

Recommended Negative Prompts

worst quality,low quality,normal quality,lowres

worst quality

Recommended Parameters

samplers

Euler Ancestral Normal, Euler Ancestral Karras, Euler a

steps

30 - 38

cfg

4 - 7

Recommended Hires (High-Resolution) Parameters

upscaler

4x Foolhardy Remacri, 4x FaceUp DAT

Tips

Use CFG between 4.0 and 5.0 for better results when using Euler Ancestral samplers.

When using named artist tags in positive prompts, include negative quality tags like worst quality, low quality, normal quality, lowres in negative prompts to improve style accuracy.

Do not use DPO or SPO Loras again on top of this checkpoint, as they are already injected.

Version Highlights

Retrained from scratch against base Illustrious. The default screencap style is now associated not only with quality tags but also with a unique screencap tag that can be independently used in the positive or negative prompt. Many other refinements to overall dataset captioning for existing data have also been made, and around 1000 images worth of entirely new data has also been added. "Red shift" problem also dealt with as I talked about in the comments.

VAE is baked in.

V2.0 specific notes:

See "About This Version" for more details, but I'll note here V2 is NOT a continuation of or in any way related to V1, rather I retrained everything from scratch against base Illustrious to make V2.

V2 is also happier with a broader CFG range than V1, anything from 4.5 up to about 7.0 can give good results depending on the particular prompt and what exactly you're going for.

Lastly, here is an unordered list of tags (apart from screencap, which as I said it would be is now an independent-from-quality-tags additional control for the default style) that can be useful in any combination for generalist "style tweaking", in the positive or negative prompt:

realistic, photorealistic, photo \(medium\), 3d, cgi, 2d, traditional media

All other advice WRT prompting is the same as for V1, as in the general notes below, including all the info about balancing artists tags if using them with quality tags.

General Notes:

This is Illustrious XL 0.1 "Raw" with the following changes:

  • further trained on an additional dataset of 2000+ hand-selected and well-captioned images for roughly 80 epochs or so, as of V1

  • DPO Lora injected @ 0.25 strength

  • SPO Lora injected @ 0.75 strength

This checkpoint aims to make the default output style of the model more consistently clean and coherent based on standard anime model quality tags (e.g. masterpiece, best quality, high quality, absurdres and so on), without actively degrading or "erasing" any of the base knowledge of Illustrious.

Lower CFG tends to give better results, I recommend anywhere from 4.0 to 5.0ish with Euler Ancestral Normal or sometimes Euler Ancestral Karras.

If you're choosing to use named artist tags such as e.g. hungry clicker or cutesexyrobutts in your positive prompt, using negative quality tags along with them in the negative prompt (such as e.g. worst quality, low quality, normal quality, lowres) is generally still beneficial and tends to improve the accuracy of any given named style, however you don't necessarily always need (or want) to still use positive quality tags at the same time as named artist ones.

Do not use the DPO or SPO loras again on top of this checkpoint, they are both already injected at carefully chosen strengths, running them again on top will almost certainly make your outputs worse.

For "hi-res-fix" upscaling with this checkpoint, I personally recommend using either 4x Foolhardy Remacri or 4x FaceUp DAT as the upscale model.

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Model Details

Model type

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Base model

Illustrious

Model version

v2.0

Model hash

dd16573ceb

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Images by Zootlustrious [Aesthetic Illustrious XL Refinement] - v2.0

Anime girl with short brown twintails wearing a school uniform with a red bowtie, smiling happily and reaching towards the viewer with her hand.
Young girl in a nightgown sitting barefoot on a bed, holding a phone and looking out a window at a vivid starry sky with the Milky Way visible.
Close-up of Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII holding a glowing white orb, winking, with an index finger raised, surrounded by colorful flowers and light rays.
Blonde woman with twin braids wearing an ornate armored dress and golden crown with blue oni horns, seated on a throne in a grand throne room, holding a scepter.

3d Images

Close-up photorealistic portrait of a stylish hipster girl with dark makeup, defined jawline, and an alluring necklace.
3D realistic image of Tifa Lockhart sitting with one leg up wearing a white sports bra and black sweatpants, showing shiny skin and sweat on a simple white background.
A highly detailed turtle wearing a jetpack, flying above a vibrant city canal surrounded by colorful buildings under a blue sky.
A vibrant yellow classic car speeding on a wet urban street with a large explosion in the background under a cloudy sky.
Loona from Helluva Boss sitting in a gaming chair with sad big red eyes, holding a flaming sign saying 'Need Buzz to generate more Loona' inside a gaming room.
Compact futuristic bedroom with metallic and industrial design, featuring a messy bed near a large panoramic window overlooking a neon-lit cyberpunk city skyline at night.
A photorealistic image of a stylish woman in a striking red dress and sunglasses, standing confidently in an airport terminal surrounded by a towering, chaotic pile of colorful suitcases on a baggage cart.
A realistic 3D moth girl with split black and white hair, wide red eyes, and an awestruck expression with drool, leaning over a glowing light bulb on a wooden table.
A 3D rendered medieval female arbalist with braided brown hair, brown eyes, wearing light brown medieval clothing and leather armor, holding a crossbow with a serious sideways glance.
3D digital art of a yellow cat pirate with bright blue eyes, a large navy pirate hat adorned with a skull emblem, a detailed navy cape fastened by gold chains, and a brown coat standing confidently against a stained glass window background.

anime Images

A mature Aka-Oni female with red skin and black horns, blue hair partially covering her face, rubbing one eye while holding a horned stuffed toy, in soft, detailed lighting.
A goddess of spring with very long multicolored hair wearing a flowing white dress sits peacefully among lotus flowers and vegetation at sunrise, with birds flying against a clear blue sky.
A woman with long brown hair in a white blouse and black checkered skirt walks on a narrow wooden bridge high above clouds under a bright blue sky filled with soaring birds.
Digital artwork of a female cyborg with long brown hair floating in a futuristic cyberpunk environment, clad in a segmented robotic suit with red cables and neon blue lighting.
Closeup of an abstract anime girl with white hair and celestial liquid-like patterns on her skin and a densely patterned abstract background.
Digital illustration of a blue-haired woman sitting on a rusted metal tank, wearing denim overalls and goggles, set against a sky filled with fluffy clouds.
A female wanderer with short hair walks barefoot through knee-deep water in a flooded, abandoned art deco diner illuminated by bioluminescent algae and hanging lights.
A science fiction scene featuring a large circular spaceport hovering above a desert island with clouds, while a figure in a futuristic armored suit stands on rocky terrain watching it.
Digital painting of a girl with long dark hair sitting on a concrete ledge, wearing a white shirt and blue pants, bathed in soft natural light, with an urban textured wall background
A fantasy scene showing a frightened elf girl with long light brown hair and piercing green eyes holding a burning torch in a dark cave, while a glowing-eyed skeleton looms behind her.

landscapes Images

A futuristic robot girl with metallic skin and a blonde braid stands on the moon's surface, holding a glowing star with Earth and a large moon in the background under a starry sky.
Close-up double exposure portrait of a woman with mist and ocean waves blending with her profile in muted, cinematic colors
Profile of a woman with long blonde hair blindfolded with a cloth, head leaning against a textured wall in warm brown sepia tones evoking a nostalgic vintage feel.
Futuristic city with holograms and advanced technology, Earth 2150.

sexy Images

A striking portrait of a blonde woman wearing large neon orange glasses with vivid blue and red lighting on her face and hair, dressed in black against a white background.
A chubby woman wearing a multi-layered white bouffant dress with white stockings and black shoes, depicted in pastel watercolor style with delicate pencil lines and vibrant, smooth color transitions.
A night elf skeleton deathknight with long dark green hair and black eyes stands in a graveyard clutching a giant sword with green glowing runes, surrounded by tombstones and a gloomy sky.
A hooded skaven rat holding a sword and a piece of cheese, running dynamically through dark fantasy ruins with another smaller rat giving thumbs up in background.
A detailed portrait of a beautiful witch with long black hair and purple eyes, standing outdoors in front of a large medieval castle and snow-covered mountains.
A futuristic robot girl with metallic skin and a blonde braid stands on the moon's surface, holding a glowing star with Earth and a large moon in the background under a starry sky.
A neon-themed high fashion image of a blonde girl in a dramatic sitting pose, wearing a black outfit and a choker, with orange and teal lighting and digital glitch graphics over her eyes.
Blonde woman with freckles and smile sitting outdoors wearing a maroon v-neck t-shirt and floral microskirt under natural lighting
Close-up portrait of a young woman with blue eyes wearing detailed Celtic-style armor in a forest, featuring realistic skin texture and soft natural light.
Close-up portrait of an elegant adult Spanish woman with dark brown eyes, light brown hair in a quiff style, wearing blue gemstone earrings, and stylish dark goth makeup, against a light blue swirling bokeh background.