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.
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.
On M1 Max with Anima-Base v1.0 and WAI-Anima v1: the official negative is short. Trim the long Illustrious bad-hands list, move structure to positive tags, keep `safe` upfront.
Ran WAI-Anima v1.0 with a custom character LoRA on an M1 Mac to see if 2- and 3-character compositions actually hold up. Notes on what breaks and what holds at different LoRA weights, with practical settings that stay stable.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI: SetLatentNoiseMask silently fails on Anima + Anima-Turbo. LanPaint runs Example_26 in 32 min/image; Inpaint-CropAndStitch drops that to 2:31 for text inpaint and ~7 min for clothing replacement.
Tested MinishLab/semble on a 1595-md Astro blog: warm bm25 returns symbol definitions in 0.84s, hybrid mode loses `seasonalBanner` to the article corpus.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI: Anima-Base v1.0 matches preview3-base in speed; WAI-Anima kana LoRA hits 22% on light prompts but 67% with hood+robe+embroidery added.
