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Notes on AI anime art & video
A Brief History of AI Anime Art: From Waifu Diffusion to Modern Checkpoints
Anime-specific AI art is only a few years old, but it moved through several distinct eras fast. Here's how it actually happened.
GPU Requirements for AI Anime Generation: What You Actually Need
VRAM is the real bottleneck, not raw compute. Here's what different tiers of hardware can actually do.
The Ethics and Legality of AI-Generated Adult Anime Content: What Creators Should Know
This is genuinely complicated territory. Here's what's worth understanding before you create or publish AI-generated adult content.
Prompt Engineering for Anime AI Art: Tags, Weights, and Negative Prompts
Tag-based prompting is only half the picture. Weighting and negative prompts are where most of the real control lives.
Anime Checkpoint Models Compared: Which Base Model Should You Start With?
There are dozens of anime checkpoints out there. Here's how to actually pick one instead of endlessly hopping between them.
Image-to-Video AI Explained: How Still Anime Art Gets Animated
Turning a still image into motion is a much harder problem than generating the still in the first place. Here's how it actually works.
ComfyUI vs. Automatic1111: Choosing the Right Interface for AI Anime Generation
Both are front-ends for the same underlying models, but they solve very different problems once your workflow gets complex.
What Is a LoRA? A Practical Guide to Character and Style Training
A single prompt won't reliably produce the same character twice. LoRAs are the exact tool that solves that problem.
How AI-Generated Anime Art Actually Works (And How to Start Making Your Own)
Every anime character on WaifuTopia was generated, not drawn frame-by-frame by a human artist. Here's how it actually works.