Category: Image

Base model is definitely SOTA, can even easily compete with closed-source ones in terms of aesthetic. Cinematic quality and color grading is next level. Base model is heavily biased on Asian faces, while it excels on anime/illustration style, while my base model anime/illustration experiments wasn’t that good. Higher CFG is slightly better with anime on …

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We’ve pushed an LTX-2.3 update today. The Distilled model has been retrained (now v1.1) with improvements to audio quality and a slightly refined visual aesthetic. It’s available on HuggingFace alongside the previous Distilled version. Along with the new checkpoint, we’ve also retrained the distilled LoRA, updated all four ComfyUI example workflows, and refreshed the union …

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If you haven’t seen it yet, a model called see-through dropped last week. It takes a single static anime image and decomposes it into 23 separate layers ready for rigging and animation. It’s a huge deal for anyone who wants a rigged 2D character but doesn’t have hundreds of dollars lying around. The problem is …

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I’m just attaching one video but 100’s of them have popped up in the last 30 days. Each of them have a different website and as crazy as it sounds 95% of the people viewing these videos have no clue. if you type in Mario lamp, Goku lamp or even “resin lamp” on TikTok or …

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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 …

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

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

Read more “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”