A verification log for converting color anime-style AI illustrations to manga-style monochrome. AI re-generation approaches lean to either color leakage or face drift, and pure deterministic local processing looks mechanical. Frames the next directions to try: putting a grayscale-only LoRA on Anima, and using See-through for part decomposition before mechanical composition.
Trained a WAI-Anima character LoRA on RunPod (AnimaLoraToolkit + sd-scripts) for $1.22, but at inference the side-ponytail direction won't shift with Danbooru tags or natural language — a directional bias from Anima base. Full verification record.
WAI-Illustrious SDXL v17 tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI against v16 with the same seed. Hires fix now auto-corrects hands and feet, the four rating tags (general/sensitive/nsfw/explicit) still drive NSFW output, and v16-trained LoRAs mostly carry over — with one case where they don't.
Tested WAI-Anima v1 on Windows + RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (8GB VRAM). Headless execution via ComfyUI API hit a tqdm OSError on startup, but launching ComfyUI normally generates a single image in 55 seconds. Includes the workaround and timing notes.
Tested WAI-Anima v1, Anima preview3-base, and WAI-Illustrious v160 side by side on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI with same seed/prompt. WAI-Anima inherits Anima's atmospheric lighting and natural running poses but still loses to WAI-Illustrious on tag control and character consistency. Includes i2i pipeline test (denoise 0.5), ~275s generation times, and how the Anima derivative ecosystem (WAI-Anima, CottonAnima, Kirazuri, RDBT) expanded in two months.
Testing See-through for anime character PSD decomposition: 23 generated layers, front/back hair separation, hidden-area inpainting, and what LayerDiff + Marigold actually produced from a single illustration.
Diagnosed a 7x speed regression for Qwen Image Edit on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI after an update. Root cause: MPS BF16 matmul runs ~2x slower than FP16, compounded by an FP16 attention bug. Benchmark numbers and the working fix.
Why ComfyUI breaks on NVIDIA Blackwell (sm_120) GPUs with 'no kernel image is available for execution' errors, and a working setup using PyTorch Nightly, xformers removal, SageAttention, and NVFP4 quantization. Tested on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell.
WAN 2.2 image-to-video on Windows + RTX 4060 8GB VRAM in ComfyUI. The 5B fp8 model failed three times; the 14B Rapid distilled model with --lowvram offloading produced a 2-second clip in 111 seconds — vs 82 minutes on M1 Max 64GB. Working setup and what to avoid.
Setup notes for running WAI-Illustrious SDXL v16 on ComfyUI with an 8GB RTX 4060 Laptop. 1024x1024 generates in ~15 seconds without --lowvram, and a LoRA still loads. CUDA 12.8 portable build and path gotchas included.
As of February 2026, the Seedance 2.0 API is not yet public. This article summarizes the outlook for ComfyUI integration once the API is released and the preparations to make.
Upscaling images loaded via the Load Image node was producing garbled output. Fixed it by addressing the non-contiguous tensor issue — a one-line patch to comfy/utils.py. Added a 2026-04-29 follow-up after a ComfyUI update wiped the patch and the bug came back, with the upstream PyTorch issue and a recurrence-detection snippet.
