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.
An explanation of why Qwen-Image-Edit's VAE is so heavy, how HunyuanImage 2.1 chose a 32x high-compression VAE instead, and how Kohya's memory-optimization work fits in.
A summary of ComfyUI's 'The Complete AI Upscaling Handbook' covering the difference between conservative and creative upscaling, model selection by use case, and benchmarks for both image and video.
Technical details of UltraFlux-v1, a model that pushes FLUX.1-dev into native 4K generation. It covers the differences from Z-Image and FLUX.2 Klein, its RoPE extensions and VAE improvements, and practical caveats.
A comparison of the Nunchaku quantized build, VNCCS Pose Studio, and the official 2511 model improvements to find better ways to control pose and camera angle.
A derivative checkpoint of Z-Image Turbo released on ModelScope. It is tuned for skin texture and film-photography-like aesthetics, and can run on an M1 Max with 64GB.
An overview of Z-Image-Distilled, the distilled fast-inference variant of Z-Image, including how it compares with FLUX.1 Schnell, how it runs on an M1 Max 64GB machine, and LoRA compatibility.
Overview of Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 Klein 9B model and how it performs on M1/M2/M3/M4 Macs. Covers the key factors behind the CUDA vs MPS performance gap, including memory bandwidth and FP8 quantization.
Gemini auto-generates images when you only ask about one or request a text prompt. The Saved info rule that stops it, a conversation-level fix, and where Google's fixes currently stand.
I investigated VNCCS, a character-sprite generation suite for visual novels, and its QWEN Detailer utility. Can it help generate side twin-tails more reliably?
