🧸Anima → SDXL Conversion Workflow Keep Pose, Upgrade Quality
Generate with Anima, finish with SDXL / IL, keep the pose, keep the composition, upgrade the quality.
This workflow lets you use Anima for structure and SDXL for rendering without losing character layout.
Perfect for people who want:
Anima pose stability
SDXL detail quality
LoRA compatibility
Character consistency
Easy multi-model workflow
No manual latent editing needed.
Just load → run → done.
Includes FaceDetailer and automatic save at every stage.
✨ What this workflow does
Generate base image with Anima
Convert latent to SDXL
Re-render with SDXL / IL model
Keep pose / composition / character
Apply FaceDetailer automatically
Save before / after images
Outputs
Anima before
Anima after
SDXL before
SDXL after
🧠How it works
Generate with Anima
Decode → Encode using SDXL VAE
Run SDXL sampler with same prompt
FaceDetailer refinement
Save results
Structure stays the same
Rendering gets upgraded
🚀 Why you want this
Fix low quality Anima images
Keep pose when switching models
Test LoRA on different checkpoints
Convert Anima to IL / Illustrious
Multi-model workflow made easy
Stable character generation
Great for animation / dataset / LoRA testing
This workflow is especially useful if you use
Anima
SDXL
Pony
IL / Illustrious
SmudgeGarden
custom LoRA
Required Models
Anima
Anima model
https://huggingface.co/circlestone-labs/Anima/tree/main/split_files/diffusion_models
Text encoder
https://huggingface.co/circlestone-labs/Anima/tree/main/split_files/text_encoders
VAE
https://huggingface.co/circlestone-labs/Anima/tree/main/split_files/vae
LoRA (example: fully_plush_doll_with_anime_eye_AN_v1)
https://civitai.com/models/825194?modelVersionId=2732496
SDXL / IL
Model (example: SmudgeGarden_IL_v1.527)
https://civitai.com/models/2393702/smudgegardenil
VAE (example: liquid9745vae)
https://civitai.com/models/85106/liquid111vae-and-liquid9745vae
LoRA (example: fully_plush_doll_with_anime_eye_AN_v1)
https://civitai.com/models/825194/fullyplushdollwithanimeeyes
Required Extensions
ComfyUI
https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
ComfyUI Manager
https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager
Impact Pack
https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Impact-Pack
Impact Subpack
https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Impact-Subpack
Ultralytics
https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics