SeeSee21/Z-Anime is a full fine-tune of Z-Image Base (S3-DiT, 6B) — not a LoRA merge. Ran the AIO build on local ComfyUI (M1 Max 64GB): working t2i and i2i settings for Base vs Distill 8/4-step, GGUF options, and what NSFW prompts actually pass.
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.
Tested See-through (SIGGRAPH 2026), which decomposes a single anime character image into a 23-layer PSD with front/back hair separation and hidden-area inpainting. What the Live2D prep actually looks like and what still needs manual work.
An update switched Qwen Image Edit inference from FP16 to BF16, and M1-M3 Macs emulate BF16 at half speed. Benchmarks of the 80s to 10min regression, why --force-fp16 gives black images, and the --fp16-vae --fp16-unet config that lands at 2:30.
Stable PyTorch has no sm_120 build, so ComfyUI dies on Blackwell GPUs. Tested on RTX PRO 6000: the PyTorch Nightly setup that works, why installing custom nodes silently uninstalls it via xformers, and SageAttention plus NVFP4 notes.
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.
