SDXL
IllustriousPonyMixv2 is a significant improvement over the original model, with less latent noise and better anatomy, including hands and fingers. This is a merge of my fine-tune of illustrious, with my fine-tune of a Pony-base model.The method to merge the two models is quite convoluted and complex, so I'll omit it for now. It involved various merging methods, custom LoRAs and fine-tuning.Works with pony scoretags, rating tags and Illustrious artist tags. Pony score tags, which are optional and activate Pony-mode, should be at the head of your prompt, followed by the artist.If you do not specify the artist, the default style looks like crap because I did not use caption dropout in the final adjustment fine-tune.Some kind words are appreciated, it was a massive pain to merge the two models. This output isn't perfect but does complex scenes really well and to me, has a certain charm, just like the base Illustrious model.