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Anima RGBA: Real Transparent PNGs From Anima

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Anima RGBA: Real Transparent PNGs From Anima
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A new open RGBA VAE plus LoRA lets the Anima anime model output true alpha-channel PNGs in stock ComfyUI. Swap the VAE, add one LoRA and type "transparent background" for clean cut-outs with no background remover.

LTX-2.5 Video With Sound, Locally on Any Mac

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LTX-2.5 Video With Sound, Locally on Any Mac
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A new one-paste installer runs Lightricks' open LTX-2.5 22B distilled model on Macs, Intel CPUs included. Patched GGUF loaders with Metal kernels stream the model from disk, so a 2-second clip with sound takes about 20 minutes on an 8 GB machine.

Silencio-2: 18M CPU TTS With Emotion Tags

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Silencio-2: 18M CPU TTS With Emotion Tags
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BlueRose Labs fine-tuned Kyutai's Pocket TTS 18M into Silencio-2, a CC-BY-4.0 English voice model that takes inline tags like [sigh], [laugh] and whisper cues, clones a voice from a short clip, and runs about 20x faster than real time on a plain CPU.

MiniMax H3 on an AMD RX 6900 XT, 20x Faster

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MiniMax H3 on an AMD RX 6900 XT, 20x Faster
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A new open toolkit runs MiniMax H3 video with audio on a 16 GB AMD RX 6900 XT under Windows through stable-diffusion.cpp and ROCm. Tuning cut one 480p clip from 62 minutes to about 3, and every fix is documented.

MOSS-Image Hits 2 Steps With an Open IDM Adapter

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MOSS-Image Hits 2 Steps With an Open IDM Adapter
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A community LoRA trained with inclusionAI's new Intrinsic Distribution Matching recipe gets MOSS-Image down to 2 steps with no CFG. That's 2 DiT passes instead of 100, with a free Space and a ComfyUI path you can use today.

Krea 2 BBOX Turbo Goes INT8 for Boxed Comic Layouts

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Krea 2 BBOX Turbo Goes INT8 for Boxed Comic Layouts
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A community Krea 2 fine-tune that places panels, characters and exact speech-bubble text inside boxes you draw in plain text just got INT8 builds. That's about 14 GB instead of 26 GB, and they drop straight into ComfyUI's stock Krea 2 template.

H3 LowVRAM Squeezes MiniMax H3 Onto 8 GB GPUs

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H3 LowVRAM Squeezes MiniMax H3 Onto 8 GB GPUs
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A new experimental launcher for native ComfyUI splits MiniMax H3's attention and MLP work into 1024-token chunks. On an 8 GB laptop RTX 5060, a 10-second 768×1344 clip with audio stopped running out of memory.

AI Media Router: One MCP for 43 Image and Video APIs

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AI Media Router: One MCP for 43 Image and Video APIs
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Jutsu Studio's new open-source MCP server lets Claude, Cursor or Codex price-shop Seedance, Kling, Veo, FLUX and friends across 43 providers (or your own ComfyUI), stop at a budget, and keep every result in a local library.

Any-to-Bokeh Brings Video Rack Focus to ComfyUI

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Any-to-Bokeh Brings Video Rack Focus to ComfyUI
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A new unofficial ComfyUI pack wraps vivo's ICLR 2026 Any-to-Bokeh model, so you can script a cinematic focus pull onto finished footage, keyframe by keyframe, without regenerating a single frame.

Detail Fixer Repairs Logos, Faces and Hands in ComfyUI

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Detail Fixer Repairs Logos, Faces and Hands in ComfyUI
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A new MIT node pack finds garbled logos, odd faces and broken hands with SAM 3 and regenerates only those patches. It uses local Qwen Image Edit on a 10 GB GPU, or Nano Banana 2 and GPT Image 2 via partner nodes, and blends the result back pixel-perfect.

ComfyUI-Ardy Steers NVIDIA ARDY Motion Into H3

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ComfyUI-Ardy Steers NVIDIA ARDY Motion Into H3
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A new MIT node pack brings NVIDIA's SIGGRAPH 2026 ARDY motion model into ComfyUI. You click the ground to steer a live 3D body, record the take, and render it as driving frames for MiniMax H3 or as a GLB.

ComfyUI Saves ProRes 4444 Video, Alpha Included

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ComfyUI Saves ProRes 4444 Video, Alpha Included
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ComfyUI core now writes ProRes straight from Save Video, as 10-bit 4444 with alpha or 422 HQ in MOV or MKV, and adds a chroma-subsampling switch to Create Video. It was merged on November 1, so git users can pull it today.

H3MD Director: 2-Minute MiniMax H3 Videos in ComfyUI

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H3MD Director: 2-Minute MiniMax H3 Videos in ComfyUI
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H3MD Director is a new open-source ComfyUI node pack that plans multi-shot MiniMax H3 videos, renders them segment by segment to 2+ minutes at 1080p, and re-renders only the bad segments. It went live on the Comfy Registry on October 31.