Hands-on evaluation of Qwen-Image 2.1 early access on ModelScope Studio. Testing 10 camera composition presets, 4-member band role assignments, I2I orientation and outfit changes, and where multi-character consistency breaks down.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB with plain Anima-Base v1.0. A red-to-blue residual direction added to one of Blocks 24-27 flips a flat image, but on a hair mask it paints a blue slab. No hair-only direction found.
My ModelScope account switched from a monthly API-Inference quota to Magicube coins, so I measured what each call costs. Qwen-Image, Z-Image, Krea-2-Turbo and FLUX worked even though none of them appeared in the /v1/models list I got; of the embedding IDs I tried only Qwen3-Embedding went through; audio paths were 404 and Wan produced no video. In these tests 400s and 404s cost nothing, while a 200 with an empty body was charged.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB, ComfyUI v0.30.1: i2i and Qwen-Image-Edit lost the character, so I rebuilt the pose one prompt at a time, plus why negatives do nothing at cfg 1.0.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB, ComfyUI v0.33.3: from-behind and a back-row drummer now pass, out-of-frame crops get worse, and Anima-Base LoRAs need a 52-block key remap.
Tested on M1 Max 64GB, ComfyUI v0.33.3. Anima-2.9B inserts 12 DiT blocks, so Anima-Base LoRA keys hit the wrong layers with zero warnings, 0/3. Renumbering the keys gives 3/3.
Eight ComfyUI experiments on a 4-character Anima (Qwen-DiT) LoRA in plain terms: the conditioning right before the DiT decides who appears, and outfit mix-ups come from a biased DiT LoRA.
Tested on ComfyUI: Qwen3-4B–14B prompt writing, a 4B encoder bridge, and split conditioning all lost to one hand-written 507-token band prompt. An 896-caption audit shows the real fix.
Tested on an M4 Mac mini with one 4-girl Anima LoRA: expressions, poses, desk contact, and a high-five across 3 seeds. Sentence order and center slots decided who touched whom.
Tested on M4 Mac mini ComfyUI: with identical Qwen3-0.6B/T5 conditioning, the black tights land on the wrong girl only when the 4-char LoRA's DiT half is applied.
Tested on M4 Mac mini ComfyUI: 8 on/off combos of three actions × 3 seeds on a 4-character Anima LoRA. Roles read at 3/3, but hands and skirts landed on the wrong girl.
