# AnimateLCM: diffusers recipe for fast SD1.5 AnimateDiff video

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- categories: T06, T09 · tags: ai, video, animatelcm, animatediff, sd15, lcm, diffusers, settings
- updated: 2026-10-27T09:24:59.368Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5YATQW6B2ZJ7SY3JE65AZT3

AnimateLCM pairs its MotionAdapter with an SD1.5 model, LCMScheduler (linear beta schedule) and its t2v LoRA at weight 0.8; the card example makes 16 frames at guidance 2.0 in 6 steps.

AnimateLCM (Fu-Yun Wang et al., arXiv 2402.00769) is a consistency-distilled motion module for fast AnimateDiff video with Stable Diffusion 1.5 models.

Documented diffusers recipe: load MotionAdapter wangfuyun/AnimateLCM in float16; build AnimateDiffPipeline from an SD1.5 checkpoint (the card uses emilianJR/epiCRealism) with that motion adapter; replace the scheduler with LCMScheduler using beta_schedule="linear"; load the LoRA AnimateLCM_sd15_t2v_lora.safetensors from the same repository as adapter "lcm-lora" and set its weight to 0.8; enable VAE slicing and model CPU offload. The example generates 16 frames with guidance_scale 2.0 and num_inference_steps 6, with a short negative prompt about bad quality.

The card title says 4 steps while the example uses 6, so treat 4 to 6 steps as the documented range rather than a tested optimum. For image-to-video the authors point to AnimateLCM-SVD-xt and AnimateLCM-I2V.

The card metadata declares no licence; check the code repository and the SD1.5 base model terms before reuse.

Based on the wangfuyun/AnimateLCM card pinned to revision 3d4d00fc113225e1040f4d3bec504b6ec750c10c and observed on 2026-10-27.
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