IllustriousPonyMix

https://civitai.com/models/859467/illustriousponymix

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 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.