Oh come on, this was made before novel AI goes public, and long before better alternatives to novel AI are released. it's normal that the hands are not that good.
interesting part is that this picture is pretty because i set up stable diffusion wrong.
desaturation was partially caused by "auto" in VAE settings. After I set it to nai.vae, it became more saturated (still good tho: https://files.catbox.moe/850cnu.png ). You can try disabling VAE (set to "auto" or "none" in settings) for more desaturation.
More negprompts to the god of negprompts! Also I didn't know you can just describe the image, I thought you need to just list tags and hope model will understand what you want.
@antlers_anon are you sure there's no hypernetwork you've selected in your settings tab, or TI that's being used to generate this image?
I tried to generate this with your provided mix__2.ckpt with all of the exact same settings (prompt, sampler, CFG scale, seed) and it still results in a fairly realistic non-anime style.
If nothing else, would you be willing to share your embeddings folder and hypernetworks folder? (just a screenshot would probably do as well?)
edit: looks like the firstpass width/height was set to 0x0, so it was just straight-up going for 768x1280 for initial resolution. I ended up finding that it gets pretty close, especially if I use kl-f8-anime2.vae instead of novelai/anythingv3 vae.
I'm guessing that colour correction and some filtering adds a little noise
