Z-Image has its own pixel art LoRAs, but can they actually convert photos to pixel art via i2i? Tested Z-Image Turbo, base model, and compared with Illustrious on M1 Max 64GB.
Testing WAI-Anima v1 on an RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (8GB VRAM). Ran into a tqdm OSError nightmare trying headless execution via ComfyUI API, but once launched normally it generates in 55 seconds.
WAI0731 (creator of WAI-Illustrious) released WAI-Anima v1, a derivative model based on Anima. In the two months since the February Anima article, derivative models have surged along with a LoRA toolkit and text encoder upgrades. Hands-on comparison of preview3-base and WAI-Anima v1.
Tested 5 approaches including Qwen Image Edit, JS color reduction, and Illustrious i2i + LoRA. Illustrious i2i alone turned out to be the fastest and lightest solution for pixel art conversion.
Automatically decomposing a single anime illustration into front hair, back hair, clothes, and other layers with inpaint completion of hidden areas. Testing the LayerDiff + Marigold-based implementation.
Luma AI's Uni-1 integrates image understanding and generation in one decoder-only autoregressive model. It does not use diffusion; instead, it tokenizes text and image patches in a shared vocabulary and generates them sequentially.
A guide to why ComfyUI fails on NVIDIA Blackwell (sm_120) GPUs and how to fix it with PyTorch Nightly, xformers removal, SageAttention, and NVFP4 quantization.
Using tori29umai’s LoRA to automatically split facial parts, results from batching 28 images, and a log of running into the limits when attempting finer hair separation
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.
