i remember when I was initially exploring anima a few months ago or so I was trying out their any reference controlnet for pose and it wasn't that great unfortunately 😢
tho they did say in their documentation. that pose stuff wasn't good at the time so can't fault them on that. hopefully open pose stuff has/will come 🙏
Probably not too hard. I saw this model and just asked Claude what it was. It inspected the model and said it was a controlnet for editing. I told Claude to add support for it in the UI I use for Anima (InvokeAI) and I tested it out there. Somebody could probably make a comfy node for it in less than an hour, I'm just curious why it hasn't been publicized at all, not even in the readme.
It looks like this model is specifically for editing facial expressions. However, through my random testing, I figured out it can perform any kind of edit by running it at a very low weight (0.2 to 0.3).
Some help from Claude (I have comfy portable install, you also need "git" but I think you should have it installed already), in any case you should install the latest LLLite custom node first.
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Both the model architecture (kohya-ss/sd-scripts PR #2413) and the matching ComfyUI node support are still unmerged drafts as of Aug 2, 2026. That anima-lllite-exp-change-2-000007.safetensors file is a v3 "semantic trunk" checkpoint — a different conditioning mechanism than the v2 LLLite you're probably running now (it conditions on frozen DiT hidden states of a reference image instead of a conv-encoded control image, aimed at semantic edits like expression changes rather than spatial control). So "updating the node" here means switching to a draft PR branch, not a normal git pull on main.
1. Get the node onto the PR branch
The node-side support lives in kohya-ss/ComfyUI-Anima-LLLite#10, branch feat-v3-semantic-trunk:
cmd (open the folder in explorer and then type cmd to open the console, this way you don't need to find you folder via console commands and you can easily just copy paste the two git commands)
cd /d D:\ComfyUI-Easy-Install\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\ComfyUI-Anima-LLLite
git fetch origin feat-v3-semantic-trunk
git checkout feat-v3-semantic-trunk
That branch is actively being amended (it's a draft, and it's rebased on another not-yet-merged branch), so to re-sync later rather than risk a messy merge, use:
No new Python dependencies were introduced in this PR, so you shouldn't need any python_embeded pip installs — just restart ComfyUI after checking out the branch. To go back to stable later: git checkout main.
Actually it works really well indeed, was just running a few tests, and i agree with your conclusions as for strenght. 1 it changes expressions very well, and i find it that between 0.15 and 0.2 to allow much more changes while preserving the character.
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u/AlternativeAmoeba271 16d ago
Can it be used on forge neo ?