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AP3-to-Illustrious Pixel Relay Upscale Workflow — v1.0

AP3-to-Illustrious Pixel Relay Upscale Workflow

TaskMultiCapabilitiesCaptioning · UpscalingFamilyAnimaVersionRelease 2927851 — ap3ToIllustriousPixel_v10.jsonEstimated VRAMNot yet characterizedBgrade

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Version: ap3ToIllustriousPixel_v10.json
Source: Civitai
Updated: Aug 9, 2026

Source description

AP3-to-Illustrious Pixel Relay Upscale Workflow

A toy two-stage ComfyUI workflow made for myself that uses Anima Preview 3 to create the base image, then uses Illustrious SDXL to upscale and refine it.

The main idea is to keep AP3 focused on what it does well: caption following, scene setup, and multi-character interaction . At the same time, it avoids relying on AP3 for high-resolution diffusion refinement, since its official recommendation is to stay around the ~1MP range and image quality can degrade at higher resolutions.

In this workflow, AP3 generates the initial base image . The image is then passed in pixel space to the second stage, where the upscale model handles the actual image enlargement , and Illustrious SDXL redraws/refines the enlarged image through UltimateSDUpscale. This avoids pushing AP3 beyond its comfortable resolution range while still taking advantage of Illustrious’s stronger high-resolution redraw, background rendering, and detail refinement .

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Purpose

Use this two-stage ComfyUI workflow with a scene or multi-character caption to create an Anima Preview 3 base image, then enlarge and refine it with Illustrious SDXL; it produces the base image and a refined, enlarged image.

Flow

Anima Preview 3 creates the initial base image and supports caption following, scene setup, and multi-character interaction.
The base image moves in pixel space to an upscale stage, where the upscale model enlarges it and Illustrious SDXL redraws and refines it through UltimateSDUpscale.
The second stage supports high-resolution redraw, background rendering, and detail refinement.

Inputs and outputs

Input: a caption for scene setup or multi-character interaction.
Outputs: the initial base image and an enlarged image redrawn and refined by Illustrious SDXL.

Setup

Download version v1.0 from Civitai at https://civitai.com/models/2607495?modelVersionId=2927851; it is published by Auleric.

Dependencies

Model files named for this workflow include 4x-UltraSharp.pth, anima-preview3-base.safetensors, qwen_3_06b_base_anima.safetensors, qwen_image_vae.safetensors, and waiIllustriousSDXL_v170.safetensors.
Node packs named for this workflow include comfyui_ultimatesdupscale, comfyui-image-saver, comfyui-mxtoolkit, and rgthree-comfy.

Configuration

Keep Anima Preview 3 around the ~1MP range for base generation, then use the second stage for enlargement and high-resolution refinement.
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Cautions

Before use, verify that anima-preview3-base.safetensors, qwen_image_vae.safetensors, and qwen_3_06b_base_anima.safetensors are available locally and are the versions you intend to use.
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