Tested WAI-Anima v1, Anima preview3-base, and WAI-Illustrious v160 side by side on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI with same seed/prompt. WAI-Anima inherits Anima's atmospheric lighting and natural running poses but still loses to WAI-Illustrious on tag control and character consistency. Includes i2i pipeline test (denoise 0.5), ~275s generation times, and how the Anima derivative ecosystem (WAI-Anima, CottonAnima, Kirazuri, RDBT) expanded in two months.
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
Went 0-for-13 trying to train an Illustrious-XL LoRA on a Mac Studio M1 Max 64GB. With help from multiple AI agents, pinpointed the root causes and finally succeeded on a RunPod RTX 4090. The full record: three fatal parameters and the sd-scripts trap.
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.
An introduction to Gradience, a tool that quantifies whether a LoRA rank setting is excessive using singular value decomposition. In experiments on Mistral-7B, halving the rank improved accuracy.
Configuration for running a Qwen-Image-Layered LoRA that automatically separates facial parts on RunPod. Comparison of RTX 6000 Ada (48GB) and RTX PRO 6000 (96GB).
Step-by-step guide to building a LoRA training environment on Windows 11 with an RTX 3060 Laptop (6 GB VRAM) using kohya_ss — from caption writing to VRAM-saving settings.
Introducing a Mac mini M4 Pro to build an in-house RAG system. A plan for setting up a LoRA training environment during downtime while waiting for specs to be finalized.
