ProtoGenesis XL

If you are interested in a realistic version of this type of model, check out Trifecta XL.

I’ve had a few requests for the primordial model that was the base of the Deep Dark Mix, so I’ve decided to post it to let others use it in their own mixes. This model, which I’m dubbing ProtoGenesis XL, is a hardcore anime-style model that tends to off of everyone and interprets the most innocent prompts in sometimes impossibly ways. Any detail you leave up to the model will result in . Because of the tendency to strip any character, please use this model responsibly.

Check sample images for each model to see the best prompts, keywords, and settings. Generally, I use the standard SDXL parameters.

Warning: If you use the models alone, certain prompts or keywords will cause the model to go wild completely and generate crazy, washed-out, or broken images. I haven’t been able to narrow it down to what it is, but as I don’t really intend for those models to be used to generate images by themselves, I’m not worried about it.

I’ll post two versions. The alpha version and a more stable version.

ProtoGenesis SDXL Alpha Version

The alpha version of ProtoGenesis is the original version that was mixed to make the Deep Dark Mix Version 1. It was made by repeatedly extracting the differences between anime models powered by the All-in-one Lora, adding the differences to the most hardcore realistic models available (like Pyro's SDXL), and then applying the weights from Loras directly to the model. The weights are out of balance, but once you mix in a few more models, things level out. Alone it looks overexposed and is prone to creating exaggerated (it once made a four-armed girl so she could to all four men in the image). However, it’ll work well as an ingredient in a mix, as it’ll add hard-core knowledge and prompt understanding with the right ratios.

By itself, it generates random styles, sometimes full-on anime, sometimes something surreal and realistic, and often something in between. However, it readily mixes and stabilizes styles when used with other models.

ProtoGenesis SDXL Version 1.0

Before I posted the alpha model, I started to play with stabilizing the look of the earlier version. I was still going to use it in a mixed experiment, but I making a more stable base model from the start seemed like a good way to decrease failures later on. I remixed some of the earlier models that had been used to extract the anime styles and found that by using just a bit of each, the remixed model maintained its abilities while producing much better-looking images. Version 1.0 has a -anime style that fluctuates but, for the most part, remains cartoony.