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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
