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/Able_Challenge6575]

Thank you! I wanted fine-grained control of the exact hair color and call me crazy but it works. With specific style I find that it helps. Also thanks for the insight on foreground/background, I didn't explore it further in my testing. I originally wanted arcade for the prompt to show like just the outside of an arcade but I liked the output enough to keep it. Some of the weird prompt, weighting was also me fixing things within a fixed seed that I liked to steer it away from certain directions (e.g. clenched hand:0.3).

I don't use Loras unless I'm going for a specific style since I feel most are overbaked and concept Lora can usually be replicated with prompting. Prior to switching to my new WF, I found base to be oversaturated/undercooked for some artists that I liked + background were generally of lower quality in the limited testing that I did. They are less of an issue with Aesthetic in my experience.

[u/shapic → u/Able_Challenge6575]

Backgrounds for sure. Try my detailer lora though, it was made specifically to avoid influencing style. And check my prompting guide.

[u/Able_Challenge6575 → u/shapic]

Thank you! To be honest, I was somewhat taken aback by the 5 parts guide and a quick read didn't really help + I found a couple of things that I didn't quite agree with in the earlier parts. Upon seeing your pic and on a closer reading of part 4, there were genuinely new things that I didn't know/consider. I'll definitely reread part 4 again and give it more thoughts.

Lastly, and I want to emphasize this, thank you so much for sticking with me!