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01ModelsHigh
Open H3 tween & keyframe adapters drop
Closest public rival to our H3 in-betweener, and a free baseline for our 130-shot A/B.
Today in 30 seconds
The five things to know from the last 48 hours.
02ModelsHigh
H3 distills and finetunes land daily
lightx2v turbo, FastH3-Omni and Taobao PTD could cut our 110-credit, 4–5 min in-between.
03ModelsMed
MOSS-Image gets edit, colorize & anime LoRAs
Open 5B base with a friendlier licence: a cheap challenger to RefPen for colour and cleanup.
04IndustryMed
SPEED EFFECT: 117-minute AI anime feature
Long-form AI production is going public in Japan, a demand signal for studio tooling.
05IndustryMed
JCP idol art exposed as undisclosed AI
Japanese audiences still punish hidden AI art. Keep our pitch on artist-in-the-loop tools.
Models & papers
Papers and releases with a line to anime production.
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Animating on Twos (Alvdansen Labs)
Three MiniMax H3 adapters for hand-drawn work: hero next-key, tween and on-twos sequence. Also a fused-QKV LoRA conversion and a held-frame cadence metric.
Why it matters for usBenchmark it against our SDEdit pipeline on the same holdout before anything else.
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ModelsMed
Manga2Animate
Animates manga panels while keeping screentone and line style (arXiv 2610.26851).
Why it matters for usLine preservation under motion is our core problem too.
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Also noted
Banodoco Discord
2,507 messages scanned. Attachments refreshed via Hivemind.
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DiscordHigh
H3 motion transfer starts working
Alisson: 6k steps with guide latents, then a native temporal-alignment method that works for those LoRAs.
Why it matters for usSame guided-latent idea could steer our in-between timing.
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DiscordMed
Custom anime upscaler for H3
crinklypaper: about 4× faster 0.5 MP → 2 MP than native. Still testing.
Why it matters for usInput for the upscaler benchmark (WON-2663).
DiscordLow
Four-pass Fibo edit restoration
One pass per black spot, one for lines, one to colorize.
Why it matters for usMulti-pass recipe mirrors our RefPen cleanup chain.
Also noted
Industry
Japan and global production news.
IndustryHigh
SPEED EFFECT 117-min AI feature
Largest announced Japanese gen-AI anime feature.
IndustryMed
Puente: corporate AI-anime pack
Packaged AI anime production for enterprise clients.
Why it matters for usCompetitor positioning for B2B anime production.
IndustryMed
VCAT joins TV Asahi × Netflix drama
AI production partner on a period drama series.
IndustryMed
MAPPA CEO: AI is just a tool
"Real emotion comes from the people who create it."
Why it matters for usMessaging template for studio conversations.
IndustryLow
Felix Film walks back AI job ad
Says it has not adopted image-gen AI, only studying it.
Also noted
Team progress
From Linear and Slack (read-only).
- Oct 20
- Oct 21
- Oct 21
todd shares Animating on Twos FYI
Posted in #rnd-general on launch day of our in-betweener.
- Oct 21
Character training queue (Akira) Ongoing
Warner BAMMBAMM/Pebbles P2. Brave + Grom start Magic Pen in Nov. Comisma final batch soon. Cue data end of Nov.
- Oct 22
- Oct 23
Internal GPU network backlog Planned
P-RND-75: RND-56 to 67 (rnd CLI, /srv/rnd, experiment cards).
- Oct 23
Office GPUs moved across breakers In progress
jaxn shared the breaker floor map.
- Ongoing
RND-51 RefPen cleanup pass In progress
Qwen-Image-Edit 2511 cleanup after SDEdit.
Suggested experiments
Three picks, all aimed at the in-betweener and its cost.
1
Train our own H3 tween LoRA
TrainingHigh priority
A tween LoRA on our labelled cuts beats the Alvdansen adapter and matches our VFI + SDEdit pipeline at lower cost.
- Data
- trace_douga_genga_sheet: 5,099 cuts with key/in-between labels (Ryo, Oct 15). Holdout: 130-shot A/B + 11 sakurai_pairs.
- Setup
- MiniMax H3 fl2va bf16, LoRA r32–64, 1–2k cuts, 39-frame clips ~768p, 6–12k steps.
- Compute
- 1× B200/H200 on Modal for 1–2 days, or the office RTX PRO 6000 (slower, assumed to fit).
- Metric
- Binarized Chamfer vs artist douga; ≥50% A/B win/tie; cadence metric; <4–5 min/pair.
- Effort
- ~1.5 eng-weeks · est. $300–800
- Fit
- Core: P-RND-98 In-Between Workflow; informs P-RND-60.
Motivated by
2
Drop-in H3 distills for the worker
InferenceHigh priority
Turbo / FastH3-Omni / PTD cut latency and credits ≥3× with non-inferior quality.
- Data
- 130-shot artist-douga A/B (Daniele, Oct 16) + sakurai_pairs (RND-53).
- Setup
- No training. Swap base or add LoRA in sdedit_fl2va; 3 variants × strength 0.90/0.98. Assumes ref2va LoRAs transfer to fl2va.
- Compute
- 13–26 GPU-h on local H100 or Modal B200 · est. <$150
- Metric
- Latency + credits per pair; Chamfer within 5%; A/B loss ≤ +5 pts.
- Effort
- 2–3 days
- Fit
- Lowers COGS of the in-betweener we just shipped.
Motivated by
3
FlashVSR+ vs SeedVR2 / RealESRGAN
InferenceMed priority
FlashVSR+ keeps thin lines cleaner and runs long clips faster, so WON-2663 can raise the 15 s cap.
- Data
- 20 clips 5–60 s: H3 outputs (1568×1152) + trace_douga_sheet sequences, downscale-then-upscale protocol.
- Setup
- Inference only, 2× and 4×.
- Compute
- Office RTX PRO 6000 + RTX 4090, <1 day, no cloud spend.
- Metric
- Chamfer after binarization, PSNR/LPIPS, compute-s per video-s, max length before OOM.
- Effort
- 2 days
- Fit
- Answers the urgent WON-2663 ask; feeds per-second pricing.
Motivated by
⚠ Data gaps & assumptions
- Leakage: Sakurai test files are copies from Akita Tsumugi Dai7, so exclude them from training.
- Rights: confirm the studio's training consent (Mar 2025) covers H3 LoRA training and the stylos set.
- Raw Akita Tsumugi files are .dga and need a converter; only the labelled exports are ready.
- Client data (Cue, Brave, Grom, Studio Betta) isn't usable yet.
- No high-res ground-truth anime video for the upscaler eval.
- Costs are estimates; Modal list prices not checked.
Sources & notes
How this edition was gathered.
Source status and notes
| Banodoco (Hivemind) | Worked | 2,507 messages; daily_summaries dead since Sep 30 |
| X | Worked | search_news good for launches; JP searches skew to backlash |
| Partial | Only r/StableDiffusion + r/comfyui via RSS | |
| HF daily papers | Worked | arXiv API query hung |
| Industry news | Worked | EN + JP |
| Linear, Slack | Worked | Read-only; nothing changed |
- All media are real source assets. Banodoco attachments were refreshed via Hivemind and embedded, not hotlinked.
- Useful X accounts: @SlipperyGem, @niklaslenz_ai, @AIWarper, @ComfyUI, @NO8D_2026, @ai_bites, @fujito_AI_note.
- Useful Banodoco channels: minimax_h3_chatter, minimax_h3_resources, moss-image, fibo, trellis, resources, ml_papers.
X & Reddit
What practitioners shipped and argued about.
Retro-anime LoRA over GPT layouts
@AIWarper: composition from an image model, style from a custom ComfyUI LoRA.
FLUX 3 Klein vs Qwen 2.1 vs MOSS
@niklaslenz: same prompts and seeds, 16–256 GB machines. MOSS wins on 16 GB.
ComfyUI: MOSS MAX ULTRA HD
Native hi-res MOSS anime benchmark.
MoreReal for MOSS-image
@NO8D_2026: anime → photo LoRA + workflow.
MOSS-Image-Edit LoRA
Top of r/StableDiffusion for the day.
RTX 3000 BF16 nearly 2× faster
Kernel patch unlock. Matters if older cards join the office pool.
EdenLive 5B on game footage
Real-time restyle test on an RTX 5090.
H3: Singularity V2 vs b25 hybrid
Community A/B of H3 finetunes.
H3 character swap in ComfyUI
r/comfyui walkthrough.
MOSS-Image news roundup
Oct 23 roundup.