At Itaú, a staff engineer delivered a 4-person, 18-week project in 9 weeks with 4 AI agents — but it worked only because they knew the codebase deeply. What the case study really says about AI and team size.
Hexer Minimal Toon's new Anima V1 is a DiT checkpoint, not an SDXL one: 4.1GB bf16, separate VAE/text-encoder ComfyUI folders, Anima-only LoRA, and a non-commercial license the Civitai page doesn't show. What changes vs Illustrious v3.1 before you load it.
On Anima-Base, my character LoRA bent its legs even on standing. Adding upright references didn't fix it; cutting 36 posed full-body images did. Subtract, don't add.
35M linear projection replaces E4B's 150M 16-layer Vision Encoder. Bidirectional attention in the 48-layer LLM absorbs patch features. Comparison with Fuyu, EVE, EVEv2, and Mono-InternVL.
Rebaked a WAI-Anima character LoRA onto upstream Anima-Base with off-distribution Gemini data. Trigger-only usable, face fidelity beats v1, intakes still cap out.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI: one character LoRA across 6 Anima derivatives, same prompt/seed. Trigger-only never stabilizes, RDBT bolts to beast-ears, structure tags fix it.
Anima is a Cosmos-based DiT, not SDXL, so one Anima LoRA loads on every derivative checkpoint. 20+ CivitAI Anima models sorted by type, aesthetic, and prompt adherence.
Tested on M1 Max ComfyUI: two WAI-Anima character LoRAs in one image. Side-by-side works, but only non-overlapping inpaint keeps the design pixel-exact; Qwen-Image-Edit elongates the side ponytail even with training tags, and overlapping interaction poses jam at skeleton extraction.
WAI-Anima LoRA trained only on images the model itself made. Distribution shift drops to ~zero, so the sweet spot hits epoch 20 not 150 (7.5x faster). What the trigger bakes in vs what still needs tags, plus pose/angle control.
Hands-on with Tencent Hy-MT2 1.8B Q4_K_M (1.08GB) on M1 Max 64GB via llama-server. JSON, SRT, HTML, glossary, and minority-language prompts with full input-output pairs. The 1.25bit 440MB build does not load on stock llama.cpp 8990, and 30B-A3B (hy_v3) is not in the Mac route yet.
Tested on ComfyUI with Anima Turbo LoRA: hair intakes don't fire from the single tag. The 27-condition recipe — character NL reference + negative identity strip + (hair intakes:1.5) + 22.5° upper-front camera — also revealed the generic prompt was accidentally a Blue Archive character spec, and that Kanon's whole female cast has intakes as a cluster prior.
