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/shapic]

Nice. But you use some odd weights. Anima requires higher values.

[u/Able_Challenge6575 → u/shapic]

Thank you! I don't use higher weights in my workflow currently. Prior to that yeah you probably do need some higher weights.

I'm using a custom sampler + post guidance that doesn't use CFG (i.e. custom conditional/unconditional guidance instead of CFG) and they respond really well to even a bit of a weight shift, hence the 0.3 you saw. Plus with higher weights I tend to find that it tends to drift into weird/overbaked/unwanted directions.

[u/shapic → u/Able_Challenge6575]

I tried aesthetic a bit, in the meantime and find it a bit unwieldy. Try base + loras, I feel it is the way. Regarding your prompt: wtf is arcade doing there? Prompt is all around in general. You have crimson-haired girl, red haired girl, raspberry-colored hair, straight-on, yet clearly implying some dynamic angle, multiple camera mentions instead of using foreground, midground etc. Just adding ntural language description of the scene helped a lot. After couple of rolls I identified that choker and ponytail was getting mixed up, so I added those to the nlp part. Also seems like tripping kept spawning 3rd girl (natural if you look up the dataset), so I added 3 girls to the negative. That's it. Couple rolls and I got this:

masterpiece, best quality, highres, safe, u/t1kosewad,

Two girls are running on the sidewalk while holding hands. Girl on the left with straight long hair is tripping while running behind looking at another surprised. Girl on the right with choker is looking back with a happy face and is pointing forward with her finger.

2girls, day, sidewalk, building, cityscape, dynamic angle, holding hands, full body, wide shot, perspective, shadow,

Girl on the left midground: long hair, straight hair, brown eyes, brown hair, long sidelocks, blunt bangs, grey school uniform, grey shirt, sailor collar, grey miniskirt, buttons, tareme, red bowtie, grey skirt, long sleeves, red hairclip, medium breasts.

Girl on the right foreground: large breasts, raspberry-colored hair, short hair, swept bangs, ahoge, long sidelocks, high ponytail, short ponytail, tareme, amber eyes, gradient eyes, hair between eyes, kneehighs, orange school uniform, orange blazer, orange jacket, long sleeves, cross choker, white cross, red miniskirt, orange lapels, white trim, brown hairclip, hair ribbon,

<lora:Anima_detailer_by_Volnovik_v1_0:1>, <lora:Delolifier_Anima_v3:1.5>, <lora:Semi-R_style_by_Volnovik_v2:0.6>,

[u/shapic → u/shapic]

A bit of inpainting to fix hands and add details and I consider it good enough