After ~400 Z-Image Turbo gens I finally figured out why everyone’s portraits look plastic

Been using Z-Image Turbo pretty heavily since it dropped and wanted to dump some notes here because I kept seeing the same complaints I had on day one and nobody was really answering them properly. The thing I kept running into: every portrait looked like a skincare ad. Glossy skin, symmetrical face, that weird “influencer …

Built a tool for anyone drowning in huge image folders: HybridScorer

Drowning in huge image folders and wasting hours manually sorting keepers from rejects? I built HybridScorer for exactly that pain. It’s a local GPU app that helps score big image sets by prompt match or aesthetic quality, then lets you quickly fix edge cases yourself and export clean selected / rejected folders without touching the …

Anima preview3 was released

For those who has been following Anima, a new preview version was released around 2 hours ago. Huggingface: https://huggingface.co/circlestone-labs/Anima Civitai: https://civitai.com/models/2458426/anima-official?modelVersionId=2836417 The model is still in training. It is made by circlestone-labs. The changes in preview3 (mentioned by the creator in the links above): Highres training is in progress. Trained for much longer at 1024 …

[Release] Video Outpainting – easy, lightweight workflow

Github | CivitAI This is a very simple workflow for fast video outpainting using Wan VACE. Just load your video and select the outpaint area. All of the heavy lifting is done by the VACE Outpaint node, part of my small ComfyUI Wan VACE Prep package of custom nodes intended to make common VACE editing …

It is still possible to achieve more natural cinematic realism for videos with open source models vs proprietary models with even basic workflows | Z-Image-Turbo and LTX 2.3

Overview Z-Image Turbo and LTX 2.3 img2vid combo (also with Flux 2 Klein 9B for additional controls) are actually really strong together for maintaining natural looking styles that feel far more alive than even some shots I would get with Seedance 2.0. Initial Frames Z-Image Turbo after all these months, I find to still be …

Model Drop | ZIT + LTX 2.3 + Music Video | Arca Gidan contest

The idea came from something I’m pretty sure most of us live every single day: you wake up, check your phone, and another model has dropped. Open source, closed source, whatever source β€” faster, smarter, more creative, more powerful. And before you’ve even had coffee, you’re already reworking a ComfyUI workflow that was perfectly fine …

LTX Desktop 1.0.3 is live! Now runs on 16 GB VRAM machines

The biggest change: we integrated model layer streaming across all local inference pipelines, cutting peak VRAM usage enough to run on 16 GB VRAM machines. This has been one of the most requested changes since launch, and it’s live now. What else is in 1.0.3: Video Editor performance: Smooth playback and responsiveness even in heavy …