Electrum Cinnamon Anime is my attempt at adding an anime-style aesthetic to the merge. The model itself still retains its flexibility and can produce a range of styles, but the baseline bias leans more toward anime-inspired features in the characters.
When generating at standard SDXL resolutions (around 1MP), small faces in wide or long shots may appear softer—especially in highly detailed, photorealistic compositions. If a face occupies only 5–10% of the image, it represents a relatively small number of pixels. At that scale, there simply isn’t enough spatial resolution to cleanly resolve fine features such as eyelashes, subtle lighting gradients, and micro-texture.
Because the model must distribute detail across the entire image, complex backgrounds, textured clothing, and lighting effects can further reduce the effective detail allocated to small subjects. As a result, facial features may lack sharpness at base resolution.
Upscaling to 2MP or higher—via High-Res Fix, latent upscaling, or detail refinement passes—provides greater pixel density. This gives the diffusion process more spatial bandwidth to define edges and refine facial structure, resulting in noticeably sharper features in longer shots.
In contrast, anime-style rendering holds up better at lower resolutions. Stylized models rely more on bold shapes, flat colors, simplified gradients, and strong line work rather than high-frequency micro-detail. These structural elements remain crisp even at lower pixel counts, which is why anime compositions often appear sharper at 1MP compared to photorealistic generations.
Recommended Settings:
Steps: 24–32 Sampler: Euler a or DPM++ 2M Karras CFG: 5–8 Resolution: Standard 1 MP SDXL sizes (e.g., 1024x1024, 768x1344, 896x1152, etc.) VAE: Default or the model's embedded VAE
Negative Prompt:
worst quality, low quality, displeasing, text, , watermark, bad anatomy, text, artist name, signature, hearts, deformed hands, missing finger, shinny skin, child, children, loli, monochrome, bad framing, poor framing,
Quality Tags:
examples are all the same settings and seed
Prompt: 1girl, ghost in the shell, kusanagi motoko, holding gun, highleg leotard, cyberpunk, bodysuit,,, looking at viewer, on the edge of a building looking over a cyberpunk city at night, nighttime, dark sky,
masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic, ultra-HD, cinematic lighting, depth of field, (blurred background), dramatic lighting,
masterwork, masterpiece, best quality, depth of field, (sketch, lineart, crosshatching:1.2),
masterwork, masterpiece, best quality, (masterpiece:1.2), (best quality:1.2),(very aesthetic:1.2), (absurdres:1.2), newest,
masterpiece, newest,absurdres,incredibly absurdres, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, (anime_screencap, retro:1.3),
vibrant hues, dynamic pose, blue palette, realistic, dynamic pose, abstract background, (4k, detailed, intricate details, best quality, amazing quality, masterpiece), vdsur, surreal, colorful background (simple black background), (volumetric lighting),
