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They recommend stylized base models, for example epiCRealism, Realistic Vision, DreamShaper, AbsoluteReality and MajicMix Realistic, or ToonYou, IMP, Mistoon Anime, DynaVision, RCNZ Cartoon 3d and MajicMix Reverie for anime and cartoon.\n\nComfyUI: import the card's animatediff_lightning_workflow.json, install ComfyUI-AnimateDiff-Evolved and ComfyUI-VideoHelperSuite, put the base checkpoint in models/checkpoints and animatediff_lightning_Nstep_comfyui.safetensors in custom_nodes/ComfyUI-AnimateDiff-Evolved/models. For video-to-video, the OpenPose workflow also needs ComfyUI-Advanced-ControlNet, comfyui_controlnet_aux and control_v11p_sd15_openpose.pth in models/controlnet; match the frame rate to the input video so audio stays aligned. 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