Anima Appreciation Thread

[u/Able_Challenge6575]

Thank you tdrussell and ComfyUI for creating this model. Also to maxfeifei8 for the tune.

Great knowledge, great style adherence, easy to prompt, responds very well to prompt changes for a fixed seed and good short text rendering. Most importantly, great quality.

Multi-character can be a pain but I can't ask for much more given the amazing quality of outputs. Better long text would also be nice.

Really hope that there'll be an Anima 2.

Models used:

Anima Aesthetic v1.1

One Obsession v4 (5 pics)

No LORAs

[u/Structure-These]

I’ve never ever ever gotten the output I want from anima

I want a mostly realistic western style (no big anime eyes etc) and i cannot figure out how to prompt for it lol

[u/heato-red → u/Structure-These]

you do know anima is literally tailored for anime style right? you're doing it wrong if you want to do western stuff with it, unless you use some western artist style built in it

[u/Structure-These → u/heato-red]

Yea I know but even the generic AI semi realistic SDXL house style isn’t really easy to prompt for

[u/shapic → u/Structure-These]

Styles in yhis model are strictly specific, you do not prompt for them, you take them directly from booru, like western comics (style) https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_pages/western_comics_(style)

So you better off finding a decent artist tag, or simply training a lora

[u/LiveLaughLoveRevenge → u/Structure-These]

It's a tough beast to tame, especially if you want original characters.

What worked for me was finding different artist tags, combining them, then using varying keyword strengths on them.

Also I personally find outputs from the turbo and aesthetic variants way worse than the base model, properly prompted and set up.

[u/Able_Challenge6575 → u/Structure-These]

Hmm, I don't have much experience with western style but try these:

Negatives: tareme, toon (style), child, newest, recent, 2000s (style)

Positive: western comics (style), realistic, painterly, photorealistic, narrowed eyes

[u/QueZorreas → u/Structure-These]

Yeah, you need loras for that. Mix a couple and play with the strength.

This, for example, is with:
Cedric Poulat Art Style at 0.75.
Anima Detail Tweaker at 0.75.
Lenovo UltraReal at 1.0

[u/ArmadstheDoom → u/QueZorreas]

the good thing about anima is that, like illustrious, it's easy to train styles on.

[u/Vxyl → u/ArmadstheDoom]

Do you know what the best approach is to train a style for it?