<h1 id="octopussmixa-the-anima-era-begins!">🐙 OctopussMixA — The Anima Era Begins! ✨</h1>It finally happened — OctopussMix has officially crossed architectures 🚀OctopussMixA is my first checkpoint built on the Anima base model by CircleStone Labs. The vibe you know and love from OctopussMixS v3 is now available on a completely different (and frankly very exciting) architecture 💫<h2 id="how-it-was-built">🎨 How it was built</h2>I distilled the style established in OctopussMixS v3 into a LoRA, then merged that LoRA directly into the Anima base. The result is a checkpoint that carries the same recognizable OctopussMix aesthetic — soft brushwork, characterful faces, dramatic lighting response — but now running on Anima's DiT architecture with Qwen3-0.6B as the text encoder 🧠<h2 id="why-anima">🌟 Why Anima?</h2>Anima is a genuinely interesting frontier model and I wanted to see if the OctopussMix style could translate cleanly to a completely different generation paradigm. Spoiler: it can ✅<h3 id="important-notes">📌 Important notes</h3><ul><li>Different architecture means different prompting behavior — natural language plays a bigger role here than pure Danbooru tag stacking</li><li>Generation settings may differ from your Illustrious-based workflow</li><li>This is my first Anima merge so consider it experimental — feedback very welcome 💕</li></ul><h3 id="credits">🙏 Credits</h3>Big thanks to CircleStone Labs for the Anima base model. And as always, the OctopussMix community for the constant support and feedback 💖<h2 id="happy-generating!">🐙 Happy generating!</h2>

OctopussMixA - Anima

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creator: ducktopuss🐙 OctopussMixA — The Anima Era Begins! ✨It finally happened — OctopussMix has officially crossed architectures 🚀OctopussMixA is my first checkpoint built on the Anima base model by CircleStone Labs. The vibe you know and love from OctopussMixS v3 is now available on a completely different (and frankly very exciting) architecture 💫🎨 How it was builtI distilled the style established in OctopussMixS v3 into a LoRA, then merged that LoRA directly into the Anima base. The result is a checkpoint that carries the same recognizable OctopussMix aesthetic — soft brushwork, characterful faces, dramatic lighting response — but now running on Anima's DiT architecture with Qwen3-0.6B as the text encoder 🧠🌟 Why Anima?Anima is a genuinely interesting frontier model and I wanted to see if the OctopussMix style could translate cleanly to a completely different generation paradigm. Spoiler: it can ✅📌 Important notes<ul><li>Different architecture means different prompting behavior — natural language plays a bigger role here than pure Danbooru tag stacking</li><li>Generation settings may differ from your Illustrious-based workflow</li><li>This is my first Anima merge so consider it experimental — feedback very welcome 💕</li></ul>🙏 CreditsBig thanks to CircleStone Labs for the Anima base model. And as always, the OctopussMix community for the constant support and feedback 💖🐙 Happy generating!

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