Nova Anime v10 is a great update to the Nova Anime series, a popular model based on Illustrious XL. This update boasts color correction, improved posing, and better hands. Like most anime models, Nova works best with Danbooru tags.
Here are a few suggestions from the Nova Anime page on Civit:
Prompt: masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, high resolution, ultra-detailed, absurdres, newest, scenery, {Prompt}, BREAK, depth of field, volumetric lighting
Negative Prompts: modern, recent, old, oldest, cartoon, graphic, text, painting, crayon, graphite, abstract, glitch, deformed, mutated, ugly, disfigured, long body, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, missing fingers, extra digits, fewer digits, cropped, very displeasing, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), bad anatomy, sketch, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, signature, simple background, conjoined, bad ai-generated
Recommended Steps: 20~30 (Their example images have 20 steps)
Recommended CFG: 4~6 (Their example images are set to 4.5)
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Nova can create many anime characters and artist's styles. Check out this MonAI Artist Study using Animagine XL v3.1 for some artist style examples. The artist's styles are more well-defined in Nova. Many of the examples on this page have artist's names at the end of the prompts.
Check out this newer references of anime artists, all of which should work with Nova: NovelAI Anime Artist Tags
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, (extreme close up), fedora, navy purple fedora, wool fedora, dress shirt, blazer, plaid scarf, cloudy, glancing to left side, night, snow, bokeh background, masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, (vanripper:1.2) Negative Prompt: ugly, disfigured, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, extra digits, fewer digits, bad hands, missing fingers, very displeasing, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), sketch, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, signature, simple background, bad ai-generated Guidance Scale: 4.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, auburn hair, medium hair, sleeveless blouse, violet blouse, facing viewer, on a hill with violet wildflowers, surrounded by (lots of butterflies:1.2), cloudy sky, masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, (naguru_\(cyoroama\):1.3) Negative Prompt: bad anatomy, lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, cropped, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), very displeasing, (signature, watermark) Guidance Scale: 4.7 |
 Prompt: 1girl, pale pink hair, short hair, wavy hair, sleeveless blouse, sitting on a grassy hill, surrounded by wildflowers, close portrait, scenic background, masterpiece, best quality, (mochizuki_kei:1.2) Negative Prompt: bad anatomy, lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, cropped, (worst quality, bad quality:1.3), very displeasing, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 4.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, close up, rain coat, pink hair, short hair, sitting in a small boat, looking at viewer, holding a fishing pole in one hand, a big fishing boat in the background, cloudy, dusk, wind, masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, (adpx:1.2) Negative Prompt: ugly, disfigured, lowres, bad anatomy, extra digits, fewer digits, bad hands, missing fingers, very displeasing, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, signature, bad ai-generated, simple background Guidance Scale: 4.2 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, close up, fedora, navy purple fedora, wool fedora, dress shirt, blazer, plaid scarf, cloudy day, looking to left side, night, snow, bokeh background, masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, (abara heiki:1.2) Negative Prompt: ugly, disfigured, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, extra digits, fewer digits, bad hands, missing fingers, very displeasing, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), sketch, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, signature, simple background, bad ai-generated Guidance Scale: 4.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, auburn hair, medium hair, sleeveless blouse, violet blouse, on a hill with violet wildflowers, surrounded by (big monarch butterflies:1.2), cloudy sky, masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, (mzet:1.3) Negative Prompt: bad anatomy, lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, cropped, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), very displeasing, (signature, watermark) Guidance Scale: 4.5 |
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Source: the MonAI wiki · Updated · First published