Obsidian Anise v2

https://civitai.com/models/2143097/obsidian-anise

Obisdian Anise v2 is a Illustirous merged checkpoint.

Obsidian Anise V1 and V2 use the same manga/anime base, but they handle the final image differently.

V1 leans harder into bold lineart, flatter colors, simpler cel shading, and stronger shape separation. It has a more graphic manga look, but it can also drift too easily into monochrome art, heavy inks, or comic-panel layouts even when the prompt is aiming for a full-color illustration.

V2 was made to reduce that tendency. The lineart is less dominant, while the shading, color, texture, and lighting do more of the work. It has more midtones, deeper shadows, broader color variation, and a stronger sense of volume.

`1girl, solo, long hair, breasts, looking at viewer, dress, closed mouth, cleavage, medium breasts, blue hair, full body, horns, barefoot, fingernails, toes, colored skin, leaning forward, blue dress, glowing, demon girl, bent over, glowing eyes, smoke, blue theme, long dress, blue skin, sharp fingernails, nose, fantasy, pillar, downblouse, crack, statue, plunging neckline, column, stone floor, cracked floor, `

https://civitai.com/models/2658582/ra-mix

RA-mix was created for Phinjo’s 26k follower celebration bounty. I was honored to take second place in the event, and with permission, I’m now sharing the merge with the community. u/phinjo

Models used:

A-mix:
https://civitai.com/models/1692152/a-mix-illustrious

Ri-Mix Pi v2:
https://civitai.com/models/996495/ri-mix-pony-illustrious

What is this merge?

Ri-Mix Pi v2 has great painterly detail, strong backgrounds, good lighting, and more interesting composition. It also has a dynamic western influence that gives images a different feel from a standard clean anime checkpoint. The tradeoff is that the facial area can sometimes come out softer compared to the rest of the image.

With RA-mix, I tried to influence Ri-Mix Pi v2 with the cleaner anime style of A-mix while keeping the parts that made Ri-Mix interesting in the first place. The goal was not to erase Ri-Mix or turn it into a standard anime model, but to clean up the facial structure while keeping the painterly detail, background strength, lighting, and more dynamic composition.

RA-mix is basically my attempt to balance those two sides: the cleaner face and anime polish from A-mix, with the western-influenced composition, lighting, and painterly detail from Ri-Mix Pi v2.

There was a little bit of tuning for the final version I'm posting but I think it turned out nice. I'm very happy with it's img2img abilites, and it's color range is very nice when using it with this application.

I wrote a step by step compariosn of the checkpoint here:

I also made an article that breaksdown the process I used to make the bounty image for Phinjo's compatition here: https://civitai.red/articles/30721/under-painting-in-ai-part-2