🐙 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 built

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 🧠

🌟 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

• Different architecture means different prompting behavior — natural language plays a bigger role here than pure Danbooru tag stacking

• Generation settings may differ from your Illustrious-based workflow

• This is my first Anima merge so consider it experimental — feedback very welcome 💕

🙏 Credits

Big thanks to CircleStone Labs for the Anima base model. And as always, the OctopussMix community for the constant support and feedback 💖

🐙 Happy generating!