🧸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