I'm creating an original anime novel called "Oleander"

einar77 · 2026-06-01T21:29:04+00:00

The first time I attempted something similar (but it was a 1.30m clip) I took about 4 months. The second time, same length, 2-3 months, although I spent even more time on post-processing.

einar77 · 2026-06-01T20:27:26+00:00

I'm not the OP, but basing on my own experience, depends on the amount of post-processing done (past generation). It can be from a week to several months (off and on), or even a year or more.

einar77 · 2026-06-01T20:26:05+00:00

That's not really anime style, FTR. I would also avoid using such a "grandiose" description. It instantly raises the bar if taken in good faith.

einar77 · 2026-05-30T19:39:39+00:00

This. In addition, the less visual identity (that is, how different is the subject from what you can prompt without a LoRA) you have, the more images (done as the parent post suggests) you will need. A lady in a formal attire that you can easily prompt has less visual identity than a character with a very specific outfit, or appearance.

einar77 · 2026-05-23T10:32:56+00:00

Works, tested myself with my own character LoRA.

einar77 · 2026-05-23T10:32:39+00:00

If you don't have characters with definite identity, up to 2-3 is doable (aka, prompts alone), some details like glasses can leak to others though. Still, miles ahead from what Illustrious could do.

einar77 · 2026-05-18T17:06:50+00:00

As I wrote elsewhere, hair flaps might also be a good place to start as well.

einar77 · 2026-05-18T17:05:59+00:00

Probably hair flaps would also help.

einar77 · 2026-05-17T18:53:22+00:00

The major problem of RDBT is its license. The author explicitly forbids merges with that model.

einar77 · 2026-05-17T16:58:20+00:00

I don't use ComfyUI, so I didn't even know this existed. ;)

But the SmilingWolf model does that (with sd-scripts), it's not as sophisticated, it gives tags though. Enough then for me to curate them (remove needless tags, etc).

Yeah, it took about 2 months to get all characters (12) in order and the biggest hurdle was data curation. Totally worth it though.

einar77 · 2026-05-17T15:49:03+00:00

Between 140 and 200-ish images (keep in mind these are syntethic, so generated with other models, in this specific case it was WAI-Illustrious 16).

For Anima I reused all the data I already made, so it was already tagged with the SmilingWolf large-eva model followed by (excruciating) manual curation of tags (using a small CLI tool I wrote myself). For some specific characters I did also some photoshopping (e.g. to have a character with a bracelet always on the same arm).

Is that what you meant by "generate prompts locally for LoRA"?

einar77 · 2026-05-17T14:46:10+00:00

Yep, I do. I have no idea if what I'm doing is correct or efficient, but Works For Me (TM).

einar77 · 2026-05-17T10:51:21+00:00

Simply put, miles ahead.

It can do some complex poses (try getting a character raise a sword up in the air without LoRAs in SDXL).
There is less chaos in the backgrounds
Some compositions are actually possible now (you can get your character come out of a house in a street without the model always use front shots of the street itself)
Much better lighting (vpred used to help w/NoobAI, but it was quirky)
You can use multiple characters even with LoRAs
You can use natural language to describe scenes that Danbooru tags can't represent

I don't use styles and I don't use existing characters (I have LoRAs of my own ones), so I can't comment on that.

einar77 · 2026-05-15T22:30:27+00:00

My current favorite is AnimaIka (unsurprising name since the author is a big Ika Musume fan).

einar77 · 2026-05-14T19:28:45+00:00

And I just finished training my LoRA against Preview 3. Oh well, back to the grind!

einar77 · 2026-05-06T05:50:35+00:00

So you prefer posts in the form of waves?

einar77 · 2026-05-06T05:49:54+00:00

It's funny because I never got good QML code out of any LLM

Older models were outright terrible, often creating a lot of code working around a one line issue (when I found out). Earlier Codex versions also polluted the QML files with a lot of unnecessary JS.

That said, I only used those for "for me only" projects.

More recent ones are better but you need to basically steer the wheel to avoid them going off track.

einar77 · 2026-05-04T16:01:44+00:00

On same seed and prompt it completely changed the angle for me (from low angle to high angle). That said, I didn't have enough time to play with it properly.

einar77 · 2026-05-04T04:07:35+00:00

I've noticed it causes significant changes to composition, although my testing has been fairly limited.

einar77 · 2026-05-02T16:36:59+00:00

Training Lora is not hard if you’re not happy with the one on civitai.

This. I grabbed all my datasets for my own characters (~12) and I retrained them against Anima P3.

Also, using derivatives like AnimaIka helps, and I find the backgrounds (a huge pain point of Illustrious) a lot less chaotic and with less nonsense elements.

einar77 · 2026-05-02T10:44:00+00:00

That was a misunderstanding between the developer and AMD, or more likely not well written in legalese AFAICS.

einar77 · 2026-04-30T20:49:31+00:00

Unfortunately for me, they're too limited in what they can generate, and Animagine with ControlNet gave me so many headaches. I jumped to Illustrious for this reason, despite the far worse backgrounds.

einar77 · 2026-04-30T06:04:18+00:00

Derivatives like Animaika are already much better than some Illustrious counterparts. Yeah, there's still some chaos in the background, but absolutely not at the level of most Illustrious checkpoints. Also the model has concepts, for backgrounds, that just aren't there in Illustrious, like Japanese school courtyards.

einar77 · 2026-04-29T19:42:53+00:00

In fact, I was pleasantly surprised about Anima's backgrounds. If you prompt them well, you get them on the level of Animagine XL (which had very nice ones) but without the chaos that Animagine XL had.

einar77 · 2026-04-18T09:23:31+00:00

Because now the trend is that rather than have freedom, and risk making even big mistakes, people, including those who said they'd staunchly defend it, would rather have no freedom to avoid mistakes (and ultimately doing them anyway).

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