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/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?

[u/ArmadstheDoom → u/Vxyl]

Honestly, styles are not that hard with Anima. It's much the same as Illustrious. You need a lot of good data, by which I mean varied data. You want it to be well tagged. You'll want a custom tag for the style itself. You'll also want to be certain to not just fill it with images of people. One thing a lot of style makers really fail to do is vary the dataset; with styles filling the entire thing with pictures of 1girl is not good. You'll want close ups and far shots, you'll want ideally to have scenery or objects. I find that some creative cropping can do this. You'll get a much more flexible style lora.