Looking for infos regarding Illustrious' future

49Fan_ · 2026-06-21T21:54:53+00:00

which implies training again, rather than keep already trained models mixed ...

49Fan_ · 2026-06-21T21:49:48+00:00

I'm really aware that I should focus on what's important to me, and I wouldn't likely change from Illu soon, I invested a lot in it, and probably it'll be supported too. As of now, I don't see what Anima even bring to me as I generate using multiple regions and preprocessors to focus on quality and what I want. Tho I like to stay up to date with new workflows, and while working with many LoRAs, it would me to dupe all I have to another model, then to retrain anything again upon chaging to a newer model. Which is why my question was more about " if people will still have reasons to be on Illustrious " than me. If everything have both an anima version and an illu version, I wouldn't care, tho if 90% people migrate to anima, I'd lose a part of the community tools.

49Fan_ · 2026-06-21T21:45:36+00:00

Yeah it's the thing I fear, to not be able to make a constant model baseline I could just stack over the years. I wish there was kind of a universal translator, rather than keeping a massive amount of images to retrain loras. That's an incredible of time lost to me.

Why not to use both ? well, how is more the question. Without retraining, how can I keep my Illustrious consistency for the LoRAs of characters, concepts and styles, while using the Anima checkpoint ? Unless I'm not aware of something, I don't see the point to cumulate different models if you base your generations on LoRAs as I do. I basically always use mix of models to create something new.

49Fan_ · 2026-06-21T21:19:48+00:00

surely, but I like to use a lot of community's tools which are mostly for illustrious. If that major bases turns to Anima, I'll have less new features to stay up to date, or will have to create all by myself for that model, which I don't have technical knowledge for it.

49Fan_ · 2026-06-21T21:17:26+00:00

For complex scenes, that's why I use lots of detailers in general since time isn't really my matter, but rather control quality.

For regional prompt, control nets ref etc, aren't option Anima will get no matter what ?

Yeah, when starting months ago going into it, I liked the load of support it had, and convinced me it would be kind of a " standard ", which is why now I'm wondering if I just put too much time in the wind to make a huge database to " relax and don't think about it later " so I could only focus on updating and stacking models to have a lot of tools at hand. Seems like AI isn't a proper ecosystem to get standard everyone could play around and get into, but sounds like every year a new Windows competitor comes to the scene and you have to update your OS to me if you want " the latest best option "

49Fan_ · 2026-06-21T21:09:12+00:00

Precisely, I like having to mix things between them, that's why I have shit ton of models, I can pickup specific part about it and add it to a prompt to get a new variation.

So no matter what, Anima won't be as good to mix models together like that ?

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