Palladium stands as a refined evolution of the Illustrious foundation — a model designed to generate colorful, expressive anime imagery with excellent prompt fidelity, balanced lighting, and natural contrast.
This version integrates utopiaOptimizedVAE (baked-in) for enhanced detail, smoother tonal transitions, and optimal performance under low CFG and step counts, maintaining clarity without sacrificing richness.
FeatureDescription🧠 BaseIllustrious merge🧩 VAEutopiaOptimizedVAE (baked-in)⚙️ Step Range20 – 35🎚️ CFG Range (Tested)3.0 – 3.5💫 Recommended SchedulerRes_Multistep (Beta)🧭 Compatible SamplersEuler, Euler a, DPM++, etc.🎨 StyleColor-rich anime, balanced contrast, strong composition🔍 StrengthsPrompt adherence, saturation balance, multi-scene versatility
✨ Vivid Color Expression – Deep saturation and clean gradients without oversaturation.
🎭 Prompt-Faithful Generation – Consistent response to descriptive and stylistic prompts.
🌤️ Dynamic Contrast – Smooth lighting, lively shadows, and defined depth.
🖌️ Adaptable Aesthetics – Performs well across characters, scenery, and concept compositions.
🧠 Steps: 20–35
🎚️ CFG: 3.0–3.5
💡 Scheduler: Res_Multistep (Beta) + Euler/Euler a recommended
💬 Lower CFGs maintain detail and natural tone due to baked VAE optimization.
1024x1024  
1152x896 | 896x1152  
1216x832 | 832x1216  
1344x768 | 768x1344  
1536x640 | 640x1536
Ideal for anime portraits, dynamic lighting, and artistic compositions.
Works well in colorful storytelling environments or stylized concept scenes.
Balanced to perform effectively in general-purpose anime workflows.
Palladium is a highly specialized Image generation AI Model of type Safetensors / Checkpoint AI Model created by AI community user JetlistiC. Derived from the powerful Stable Diffusion (Illustrious) model, Palladium has undergone an extensive fine-tuning process, leveraging the power of a dataset consisting of images generated by other AI models or user-contributed data. This fine-tuning process ensures that Palladium is capable of generating images that are highly relevant to the specific use-cases it was designed for, such as anime, colorful, base model.
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Yes! You can download the latest version of Palladium from here.
To use Palladium, download the model checkpoint file and set up an UI for running Stable Diffusion models (for example, AUTOMATIC1111). Then, provide the model with a detailed text prompt to generate an image. Experiment with different prompts and settings to achieve the desired results. If this sounds a bit complicated, check out our initial guide to Stable Diffusion – it might be of help. And if you really want to dive deep into AI image generation and understand how set up AUTOMATIC1111 to use Safetensors / Checkpoint AI Models like Palladium, check out our crash course in AI image generation.
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