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Character-Style-and-I2V-Tests-2026-07-27.md
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| 142 | 142 | not lock the exact Reading Nook rendering. The next style experiment should |
| 143 | 143 | condition on an approved image reference or test a dedicated style LoRA. |
| 144 | 144 | |
| 145 | +## Prebuilt Anima LoRA tests |
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| 146 | + |
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| 147 | +Three prebuilt adapters were installed in the shared ComfyUI model tree and |
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| 148 | +tested with Anima Base: |
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| 149 | + |
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| 150 | +| Adapter | Type | Test result | |
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| 151 | +| --- | --- | --- | |
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| 152 | +| `anima-highres-aesthetic-boost.safetensors` | Official aesthetic enhancer | Improved individual frames but shifted between glossy 3D, painterly rendering, and outlined illustration | |
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| 153 | +| `anima-greg-rutkowski-style.safetensors` | Official painterly style | Polished and attractive, but the children often read older | |
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| 154 | +| `noobai-style-anima-lora-final.safetensors` | Community anime style | Most consistent rendering family across characters, actions, lighting, and environments | |
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| 155 | + |
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| 156 | +### Controlled comparison |
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| 157 | + |
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| 158 | +The `v012` comparison rendered Mia and Henry as baseline plus all three |
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| 159 | +adapters. The `v013` comparison then held source character text, LoRA strength, |
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| 160 | +dimensions, scene seed, and sampling settings constant while testing Aesthetic |
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| 161 | +Boost against NoobAI in four new environments. |
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| 162 | + |
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| 163 | +Common settings: |
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| 164 | + |
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| 165 | +| Field | Value | |
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| 166 | +| --- | --- | |
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| 167 | +| Model | `anima-base-v1.0.safetensors` | |
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| 168 | +| Dimensions | 1024 × 1024 | |
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| 169 | +| Steps / CFG | 30 / 4 | |
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| 170 | +| Sampler / scheduler | `er_sde` / `simple` | |
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| 171 | +| LoRA strength | 0.75 | |
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| 172 | +| NoobAI trigger | `noobai-style` | |
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| 173 | + |
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| 174 | +**Result:** Aesthetic Boost is an enhancer rather than a dependable style lock. |
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| 175 | +NoobAI maintained the most coherent look across warm and cool scenes, interior |
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| 176 | +and exterior environments, and Mia and Henry. It became the current prebuilt |
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| 177 | +style-adapter candidate, not an approved final style. |
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| 178 | + |
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| 179 | +### Ten-frame NoobAI consistency batch |
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| 180 | + |
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| 181 | +The `v014` batch rendered four Mia solos, four Henry solos, and two shared |
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| 182 | +scenes with unique seeds and varied camera distances, actions, props, lighting, |
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| 183 | +and environments. |
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| 184 | + |
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| 185 | +Output folder: |
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| 186 | + |
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| 187 | +`LanternClub/NoobAIConsistency` |
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| 188 | + |
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| 189 | +Observed: |
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| 190 | + |
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| 191 | +- The clean anime/storybook rendering remained strong across all ten frames. |
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| 192 | +- Henry was more stable than Mia in face, hair, clothing, and apparent age. |
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| 193 | +- Mia's main identity drift was hairstyle: bangs and side-part details varied. |
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| 194 | +- Pair scenes preserved both children, but requested shared actions could be |
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| 195 | + ignored or simplified. |
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| 196 | +- Minor failures included malformed music mallets, an extra hair clip, |
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| 197 | + pseudo-writing, and a broad plain band at the top of one art-studio frame. |
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| 198 | +- A style LoRA improves the rendering family; it does not replace |
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| 199 | + reference-conditioned character identity. |
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| 200 | + |
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| 145 | 201 | ## Wan 2.2 14B Turbo I2V tests |
| 146 | 202 | |
| 147 | 203 | Two full-frame stills were uploaded to separate local ComfyUI instances and |
| ... | ... | @@ -168,6 +224,55 @@ The first tests prove that the workflow executes successfully on both A4000s. |
| 168 | 224 | They do not yet approve motion quality, identity preservation, or Turbo as the |
| 169 | 225 | final production setting. |
| 170 | 226 | |
| 227 | +### Six-second square no-prompt batch |
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| 228 | + |
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| 229 | +All ten `v014` NoobAI consistency frames were animated as `v015` with no text |
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| 230 | +conditioning. |
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| 231 | + |
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| 232 | +| Field | Value | |
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| 233 | +| --- | --- | |
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| 234 | +| Source | The ten `v014` NoobAI PNGs | |
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| 235 | +| Dimensions | 512 × 512 | |
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| 236 | +| Frames / fps | 97 / 16 | |
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| 237 | +| Effective container duration | Approximately 6.063 seconds | |
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| 238 | +| Positive prompt | Empty | |
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| 239 | +| Negative prompt | Empty | |
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| 240 | +| CFG | 1 | |
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| 241 | +| Steps / split | 4 / 2 | |
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| 242 | +| Output folder | `LanternClub/WanI2VNoPrompt6s` | |
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| 243 | +| Seed range | `2607271501`–`2607271510` | |
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| 244 | + |
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| 245 | +**Result:** unprompted Wan motion looked attractive and natural overall, and |
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| 246 | +faces, clothing, and style remained reasonably stable. However, the children |
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| 247 | +repeatedly moved their lips as though speaking. Wan also improvised or morphed |
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| 248 | +props, including the apple, paintbrush, and paper pinwheel. |
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| 249 | + |
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| 250 | +### Short no-talking prompt test |
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| 251 | + |
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| 252 | +Six sources were rerun as matched `v016` comparisons using the same first |
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| 253 | +frames, noise seeds, dimensions, duration, and Turbo workflow. The only |
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| 254 | +conditioning change was this exact positive prompt: |
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| 255 | + |
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| 256 | +> Silent natural motion. Preserve the exact mouth shape; no talking or |
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| 257 | +> lip-sync. |
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| 258 | + |
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| 259 | +The negative prompt remained empty. Output folder: |
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| 260 | + |
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| 261 | +`LanternClub/WanI2VNoTalking6s` |
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| 262 | + |
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| 263 | +Prompt IDs: |
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| 264 | + |
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| 265 | +- Mia Art Studio: `dacc8e86-5111-464e-a602-f4359e815b52` |
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| 266 | +- Henry Music Room: `c6923035-e37d-48b4-bd67-cba6743bd7ae` |
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| 267 | +- Mia Museum Butterfly: `33134484-8221-42e0-9ec1-92a712c80740` |
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| 268 | +- Henry Apple Orchard: `9605ed8f-4a93-42b7-8947-dca6df2c882d` |
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| 269 | +- Pair Market: `14be613c-5923-4af3-b7a0-22cccae68f8d` |
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| 270 | +- Pair Cabin Porch: `e5d62451-d258-4e00-adb9-cd2aef9a1c35` |
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| 271 | + |
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| 272 | +**Result:** lip movement persisted. At the current Turbo settings, that short |
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| 273 | +instruction did not override Wan's tendency to infer speech-like facial |
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| 274 | +motion. Do not treat “no talking” as a solved prompt control. |
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| 275 | + |
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| 171 | 276 | ## Decisions and next experiments |
| 172 | 277 | |
| 173 | 278 | ### Approved |
| ... | ... | @@ -181,6 +286,8 @@ final production setting. |
| 181 | 286 | |
| 182 | 287 | - The revised everyday Mia and Henry appearances. |
| 183 | 288 | - Mia Reading Nook as the style target. |
| 289 | +- NoobAI at strength 0.75 as the strongest prebuilt style-consistency adapter |
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| 290 | + tested so far. |
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| 184 | 291 | - The current LightX2V four-step Wan I2V workflow. |
| 185 | 292 | |
| 186 | 293 | ### Next |
| ... | ... | @@ -189,8 +296,12 @@ final production setting. |
| 189 | 296 | 2. Build the required turnaround, expression, action, seated, and neutral |
| 190 | 297 | two-shot pack. |
| 191 | 298 | 3. Test reference-conditioned character generation. |
| 192 | -4. Test image-reference style matching or a dedicated style LoRA. |
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| 193 | -5. Compare the same approved first frame in Wan Turbo and the full 20-step |
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| 299 | +4. Test closed-mouth first frames with blank Wan prompts against the existing |
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| 300 | + open-mouth sources and reused noise seeds. |
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| 301 | +5. Test stronger concise mouth-restraint wording at CFG 1. |
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| 302 | +6. Test the same source and seed at CFG 1.5–2.0, watching for Turbo quality |
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| 303 | + degradation. |
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| 304 | +7. Compare the same approved first frame in Wan Turbo and the full 20-step |
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| 194 | 305 | workflow. |
| 195 | -6. Review face, hands, accessory continuity, texture crawl, flicker, and motion |
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| 196 | - quality before selecting an I2V workflow. |
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| 306 | +8. Review face, hands, accessory continuity, texture crawl, flicker, prop |
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| 307 | + morphing, and mouth motion before selecting an I2V workflow. |
Decision-Log.md
| ... | ... | @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Use this page for decisions that change production canon. Newest entries go firs |
| 4 | 4 | |
| 5 | 5 | | Date | Area | Decision | Status | Affected pages | |
| 6 | 6 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | |
| 7 | +| 2026-07-27 | Prebuilt style adapter | Continue testing NoobAI at strength 0.75 as the most consistent prebuilt Anima look found so far; do not treat it as a character-identity lock | Candidate | [Prompt Architecture](/Prompt-Architecture), [Workflow Registry](/Workflow-Registry), [Character, Style, and I2V Tests](/Character-Style-and-I2V-Tests-2026-07-27) | |
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| 7 | 8 | | 2026-07-27 | Character names | Replace the working names Lumi and Pip with **Mia and Henry** | Approved | [Cast](/Cast), [Character, Style, and I2V Tests](/Character-Style-and-I2V-Tests-2026-07-27) | |
| 8 | 9 | | 2026-07-27 | Character direction | Test Mia and Henry as familiar, everyday children with simpler hair, clothing, and facial anchors; keep accessories secondary until reference-guided continuity is proven | Candidate visual direction | [Cast](/Cast), [Character, Style, and I2V Tests](/Character-Style-and-I2V-Tests-2026-07-27) | |
| 9 | 10 | | 2026-07-27 | Character scale prompting | Do not state a height relationship between Mia and Henry in image prompts | Approved prompting rule | [Cast](/Cast), [Prompt Architecture](/Prompt-Architecture) | |
Prompt-Architecture.md
| ... | ... | @@ -130,3 +130,40 @@ Keeping that text unchanged produced a coherent style family but not an exact |
| 130 | 130 | lock. Exact matching will require a validated style-reference workflow, |
| 131 | 131 | reference conditioning, or a tested style LoRA. See |
| 132 | 132 | [Character, Style, and I2V Tests — 2026-07-27](/Character-Style-and-I2V-Tests-2026-07-27). |
| 133 | + |
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| 134 | +## Prebuilt LoRA consistency candidate |
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| 135 | + |
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| 136 | +The strongest prebuilt style-consistency result so far used: |
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| 137 | + |
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| 138 | +```yaml |
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| 139 | +model: anima-base-v1.0.safetensors |
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| 140 | +lora: Anima/noobai-style-anima-lora-final.safetensors |
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| 141 | +lora_strength: 0.75 |
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| 142 | +trigger: noobai-style |
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| 143 | +dimensions: 1024x1024 |
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| 144 | +steps: 30 |
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| 145 | +cfg: 4 |
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| 146 | +sampler: er_sde |
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| 147 | +scheduler: simple |
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| 148 | +``` |
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| 149 | + |
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| 150 | +NoobAI kept a coherent clean anime/storybook look across ten varied frames. It |
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| 151 | +did not lock character identity: Mia's bangs and side part drifted, while Henry |
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| 152 | +was more stable. Treat it as a candidate rendering adapter, not a replacement |
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| 153 | +for character references or an approved final style. |
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| 154 | + |
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| 155 | +## Wan mouth-motion finding |
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| 156 | + |
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| 157 | +Wan 2.2 14B Turbo produced appealing automatic movement from the NoobAI first |
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| 158 | +frames with empty positive and negative prompts, but repeatedly animated the |
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| 159 | +children's lips as if they were speaking. |
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| 160 | + |
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| 161 | +This exact short positive prompt was tested on six matched sources at CFG 1: |
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| 162 | + |
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| 163 | +> Silent natural motion. Preserve the exact mouth shape; no talking or |
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| 164 | +> lip-sync. |
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| 165 | + |
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| 166 | +Lip motion persisted. Closed-mouth source frames, alternative concise wording, |
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| 167 | +slightly higher CFG, and the full non-Turbo workflow remain controlled tests. |
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| 168 | +Do not claim that speech-like mouth motion has been suppressed until one of |
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| 169 | +those tests succeeds. |
Workflow-Registry.md
| ... | ... | @@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ review link whenever a workflow changes. |
| 11 | 11 | | Character reference pack | Turnaround, expressions, and shared neutral two-shot for Mia and Henry | Local ComfyUI / Anima | `EXP-TLC-001`; exact reference-conditioned workflow TBD | Draft | |
| 12 | 12 | | Character and environment still test | Test visible character anchors, full-bleed composition, and ordinary environments at 3:4 | Local ComfyUI / Anima | `anima-base-v1.0`; 864 × 1152; 30 steps; CFG 4; `er_sde` / `simple` | Verified experiment | |
| 13 | 13 | | Reading Nook style-family test | Reuse one verbatim text style block across ten different scenes | Local ComfyUI / Anima | `EXP-TLC-001`; exact reference conditioning TBD | Text-only family verified; exact lock unproven | |
| 14 | +| Prebuilt style-LoRA consistency test | Compare style stability across Mia, Henry, shared scenes, actions, lighting, and environments | Local ComfyUI / Anima | NoobAI LoRA at 0.75; trigger `noobai-style`; 1024 × 1024; 30 steps; CFG 4; `er_sde` / `simple`; `v012`–`v014` | NoobAI is the strongest tested prebuilt candidate; identity lock unproven | |
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| 14 | 15 | | 12-panel first-frame storyboard | Interpret the reviewed Whisper/Palmier timing with consistent cast, location, varied coverage, and one approved first frame per shot | Local ComfyUI / Anima | Mary–Joseph V1 is the current learning reference | Approved fourth stage | |
| 15 | -| Image-to-video shot | Animate an approved Anima first frame to its assigned Palmier time range without redesigning it | Local ComfyUI / Wan 2.2 14B | FP8 high/low-noise models; LightX2V four-step LoRAs; first local tests at 480 × 640, 5 s, 16 fps | Approved fifth stage; Turbo quality comparison pending | |
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| 16 | +| Image-to-video shot | Animate an approved Anima first frame to its assigned Palmier time range without redesigning it | Local ComfyUI / Wan 2.2 14B | FP8 high/low-noise models; LightX2V four-step LoRAs; latest tests at 512 × 512, 97 frames, 16 fps, CFG 1 | Approved fifth stage; Turbo quality comparison pending | |
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| 17 | +| Wan no-prompt motion test | Measure automatic motion and identity preservation without text conditioning | Local ComfyUI / Wan 2.2 14B Turbo | Ten `v015` clips; positive and negative empty; source `v014`; seed range `2607271501`–`2607271510` | Attractive automatic motion; speech-like lip motion and prop morphing unresolved | |
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| 18 | +| Wan no-talking prompt test | Test whether a short restraint suppresses speech-like mouth animation | Local ComfyUI / Wan 2.2 14B Turbo | Six matched `v016` clips; exact prompt recorded in experiment page; negative empty; reused `v015` seeds | Restraint failed at CFG 1; further controlled tests required | |
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| 16 | 19 | | Episode finishing | Assemble, time, revise, and finalize every selected media element | Palmier | Exact project/template version TBD | Approved interim direction | |
| 17 | 20 | | Asset review | Contact sheets and approved output collections | SmartGallery | TBD | Candidate | |
| 18 | 21 |