Cartoon 2D | no VAE

Cartoon 2D animation is a custom merge checkpoint designed for expressive, stylized 2D illustrations with flexible rendering modes. Whether you're aiming for soft painterly portraits, vibrant cartoon sketches, or detailed comic‑style compositions, this model adapts to your prompt structure and delivers consistent, emotionally rich results.

It excels at character‑driven storytelling, fantasy scenes, cozy interiors, sci‑fi drama, and visual novel aesthetics — all with clean color harmony and confident anatomy.

🤌🏻 Best for:

• 2D anime/cartoon portraits with expressive emotions and clean shading

• Narrative scenes — from magical forests and moonlit beaches to futuristic corridors and quiet rooms

• Consistent character design across multiple renders and angles

✨ Core Features:

• Soft lighting and smooth shading without heavy depth or specular highlights

• Illustration-style rendering with readable silhouettes and gentle gradients

• Harmonious color palettes with controlled saturation

• Confident anatomy and stylized proportions

• Works well with both cozy and dramatic compositions

☝ Tips:

This model responds dynamically to your prompt's opening tags. Here's how to guide its style:

1. masterpiece, best quality
   Soft 2D realism/Minimal cartoon stylization, smooth gradients, cinematic lighting

2. toon, flat colors, highres, amazing quality, 4k, high resolution, ultra-detailed, newest
   Flat cartoon/Clean outlines, cel-style shading, vibrant and playful

3. masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, 4k, high resolution, ultra-detailed, comicbook style
   Graphic stylization/Mid-level cartoon look with strong details and confident forms

4. masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, 4k, very aesthetic, high resolution, ultra-detailed, absurdres, newest, cartoon, toon
   Aesthetic hybrid/Stylized but detailed, with atmospheric depth and emotional tone

5. masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, 4k, very aesthetic, high resolution, ultra-detailed, absurdres, newest, cartoon, toon, comicbook style
   High-resolution clarity/Sharp rendering, rich textures, and modern polish

• ADetailers: face_yolov8m, person_yolov8n-seg, Eyes, hand_yolov8n, face_yolov8n, full_eyes_detect_v1, Anzhc%20Face%20-seg, Anzhc%20Eyes%20-seg-hd, PitHandDetailer-v1b-seg.pt

• Hi‑Res Fix/Upscaling: lollypop

• VAEs: sdxl_vae and xlVAEC_c9. xlVAEC_c9 is just brighter

• Samplers and Schedulers: Euler a Automatic

• Steps: 20 or 35

• CFG: 5

• Width and Height: 768×1344, 832×1216

• For storytelling, specify mood and setting (e.g., “fantasy garden”, “moonlit ocean”, “urban dusk”, “cozy room”)

🩵 **All examples are made in SD A1111

**You can use this site to better understand the settings of the examples 🩵

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You can help me with it, tips are always welcome 💌

1. Purpose & Nature of the Model
This model is provided strictly for research, artistic exploration, and experimental purposes, including NSFW content generation. It does not intend to copy, reproduce, or replace any existing artworks, characters, brands, or visual styles — including those protected by copyright, trademark, or patent law. All training and merging processes were performed solely for transformative learning of visual features, without direct reproduction of any specific protected works. All depicted characters are fictional and imagined as adults (21+); any resemblance to real persons, names, or events is purely coincidental and unintentional.
2. Liability & Responsibility
The author is not liable for any interpretations, generations, modifications, forks, merges, or downstream uses of this model by third parties. Users are solely responsible for ensuring their use complies with local laws, ethical standards, and platform policies, including those governing NSFW or adult content.
3. Warranty Disclaimer
This model is provided “as is”, without any express or implied warranties regarding accuracy, safety, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose. While the author strives for quality, consistency, and responsible sharing, they assume no responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from its use.
4. Redistribution & Derivatives
This model may be merged, adapted, or used as a base for personal, creative, or research purposes, provided that all such use remains non-commercial and is not presented as the original model. However, re-uploading, rehosting, or redistributing this specific model file — on external platforms (including but not limited to SeaArt, PixAI, Tensor.art, HuggingFace, or Civitai re-uploads) — is strictly prohibited without the author’s explicit permission. Derivative or merged versions created for personal or research use are permitted, as long as they are not presented as the original model. This restriction includes any rehosting, mirroring, or derivative listings intended to present the model as a separate publication. Any profiles, publications, or channels not affiliated with the official PupaBoo account on Civitai are considered unauthorized. The author shares this model exclusively for research and creative purposes on the official Civitai page.
5. License
This model is a derivative merge built upon architectures and components licensed under the following frameworks: SDXL, Illustrious, NoobAI-XL.

As such, this model remains subject to the terms and conditions of the above licenses, including the Open RAIL-M restrictions on harmful or commercial misuse, and the FAIPL-SD provisions for public AI sharing and research.