A new $35 procedural fractals software that works inside of Blender, Vectron Fractals Blender Edition. You also need Octane for Blender, apparently, to do them justice when rendering.
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Release: LTX Desktop Beta
LTX Desktop Beta has been released. It’s a free video generator and non-linear video editor, with a slick but simple GUI. Under the hood it’s powered by the new LTX 2.3 model. It’s the official LTX desktop software, open-source (Apache2.0) and fully local. No proprietary layers, full access to the models and their weights.
A simple interface, but with a powerful and cutting-edge AI video generation model underneath it. Can do ‘image to video’ as well as ‘prompt to video’, so the AI-haters don’t have to freak out about copyright. Just drop in your 3D render and watch it being restyled and/or animated. If you have the required VRAM of course. 32Gb is apparently optimum.
Expect long one-time downloads of the required multi-Gb models, once you have the LTX Desktop software installed.
It will need a powerful graphics-card to run it, of course, as well as masses of hard-drive space. 24Gb of VRAM on the graphics-card is usually thought of as needed for worth-having video generation, and 32Gb(!) is recommended here. Though note there’s also a mention of the option in LTX Desktop to use “an API key”, which suggests the software can also hook into a paid LTX cloud service. In that respect, those familiar with the ComfyUI node-based interface should also look at Comfy Cloud — which does not lock you into the LTX model only.
What’s New for Poser, DAZ and more, in February 2026
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Welcome to my regular pick of goodies for Poser and DAZ, and my round-up of other interesting software. This covers February 2026. As usual, just my picks, and with a focus on commercial-use items.
Note that Renderosity’s website is becoming very flaky, to the extent that the site is often unusable. You may need several tries to get a page to load, or just have to wait for several minutes. The same also goes for DAZ…
Science fiction:
An old-school Cryo-Vault: HS-2000 Command Center, perhaps of use for Doctor Who scenes?
Fantasy:
No fantasy picks this month.
Gothic and horror:
The Eldritch Sovereign Throne, with G9 pose.
Gothic Lamps Collection for DAZ.
Stitched Scars-for-G8F-and-G8M.
Jadis for G9F, a lookalike for the young Tilda Swinton.
Steampunk:
Pistolero Automata, a robo-cowboy.
Police Enforcer Helmet for DAZ Studio.
A free Ensemble Dress for G8F, potentially suitable for steampunk.
Chronos Mechanica Watch for Genesis 9.
Storybook:
A free Woodmood Coffee Table, potentially adaptable for a woodland tea-party scene.
A free simple-but-pleasing Witch Hat for Poser.
Free simple Toyboxes for Poser.
Toon:
Somewhat stylised Underwater Toon Props 2, suitable for toon and semi-toon fish.
Free, a bumper pack with a decade’s worth of poses for Nursoda’s Poser characters. Also some facial morphs.
Figures and parts:
A free C. Lloyd head for G8M.
Free floppy Hair For G8F.
Free, 2,600 Carnegie Mellon .BVH files for Poser, as animated .GIF previews.
Landscapes, seascapes and environment props:
Stonemason’s The Classical Gardens.
Spring Daffodil Flowers for DAZ.
A dramatic XI Root Bridge.
Animals:
Songbird ReMix Antpittas. Cute little ant-eaters.
Songbird ReMix Parrots v7: Pacific Parrotlet Breeds.
Cat got your birds? They’re probably wearing one of the new T3d Meow Xpress for DAZ House Cat expressions.
A free Cat Wheel Pro for your Poser / DAZ moggies.
3DV Cat Accessories Big Bundle For DAZ.
Historical:
Classic Mature Hair Set for Genesis 9, looking suitable for ‘Biblical patriarch’ art.
The Templar for DAZ Studio and Templar Horse.
A free Waterpipe.
A Outpost Ruins Standalone for jungle scenes. Plus Outpost Kitbash for additional clutter and decay.
1930-50s dForce British game shooting outfit.
German Anti-Aircraft Searchlight for DAZ.
Scripts and other auto-helpers:
A free POV-EyeCam for Genesis 9.
DAZ LOD System and Cleaner. LOD is one of the methods by which videogames load huge scenes into a relatively small PC memory.
Tutorials:
* At YouTube, the new How to manually download and install DAZ content.
* Also useful is this image (see below), for those who install a new DAZ Studio version and find all their content has gone AWOL. It shows the convoluted process of getting your content library back again.
Software:
* Poser 14.0.227, with the new ‘Poser Cloth’. There’s been another release since then. The changelog suggests that Poser Physics has been getting a lot of attention, presumably to align it with the new Cloth.
* A wholly free desktop YoutubeDownloader that works. Useful for getting tutorial videos running locally and offline.
AI and similar helpers:
All free, as is the way with local AI.
* A group-test to discover which Z-Image Turbo style LoRAs work with the fast Z-Image Turbo Nunchaku r256 variant.
* ComfyUI LayerDivider for automatically creating layered .PSD files inside ComfyUI. Looks a bit hit-and-miss, but potentially it gets you Photoshop layers containing auto-masks for skin, hair and shadows. These then have obvious uses in postwork.
* A 360-degree VR image maker for Flux.2 Klein 4B. Uses automatic outpainting to seamlessly fill gaps between several images.
* Have Flux.2 Klein 4B extract Color Palette from an image. Just a basic one. See also 2020’s detailed survey “Some tools for extracting a limited colour palette from a picture”.
* Also for the amazing and fast Flux.2 Klein 4B, an Attach Outfit & Try On LoRA. Presumably it should work with Poser /DAZ renders, potentially opening up a whole realm of new free costumes?
* Restyling demos for Poser to Klein 4B and iRay to Klein 4B. 100% repeatable characters for comics production. Though it’s only likely to interest a few people. As with the 3D crowd, the Stable Diffusion crowd are overwhelmingly interested only in hyper-realistic 8k skin and animations of dancing girls with jiggling breasts.
* ComfyUI-Execute-Python: A single ComfyUI node for executing arbitrary Python code. Don’t worry… the node gets the PC’s unique GUID when installed, and thus makes your install of it unique and far safer. This means a shared workflow (i.e. downloaded from the Internet) can’t use it to run some nasty Python code. The legitimate use-case is obvious… you can have ComfyUI load external software as part of the workflow, and have that software run its own script on the ComfyUI output image. For example…
import subprocess
subprocess.call([r'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop\Photoshop.exe',r'C:\do_something.jsx'])
* ComfyUI-Yedp-Mocap, for capture from your webcam. Lightweight javascript extracts openpose frames from your video feed, and sends the frames to Controlnets, leaving your graphics-card free to run the image generation / restyling.
* A font generator for Flux.2 Klein 9B. Smart generation of… “1280×1280px font atlases from a single reference image and using the same font style”. Stable Diffusion for fonts, basically.
* The free Nichey, the only software I could find that automatically generates a full wiki from a set of local documents. You can plug in any capable online AI that has an “OpenAI compatible API”, and which isn’t going to freak out at being asked to ingest the documents and make a wiki from them. Potentially very useful if you have obscure creative software that needs a wiki, but you don’t have the time to make one.
Coming soon:
* Official massive RAM optimization fixes for ComfyUI Portable. And the new official NVIDIA Studio driver should greatly speed up the already-fast Flux.2 Klein, though I’m unsure if it will only benefit the latest 50-series graphics-cards. Releases soon, for both. Already here in speed-ups, ComfyUI-CacheDiT.
Qwen 3.5 is out and now has GGUFs. Potentially meaning a more powerful replacement for Qwen 3 4B as a standard prompt text-encoder in ComfyUI.
That’s it for now.
2,600 Carnegie Mellon .BVH files for Poser, as animated .GIF previews
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I see that Shriinivas has an animated directory for the 2,600 Carnegie Mellon .BVH motion capture files. Released November 2023, you get little munchkins in .GIF animations which show each motion-capture.
The .BVH files are linked with a named link alongside each animation, but note that these don’t lead to the Poser versions. For Poser you want the cmu-ecstasy-motion-bvh-poser-friendly-2012 freebie archive. But the names in each set are the same. Thus Shriinivas’s “90_09” means that in the Poser files you need to look in folder “90” and there find the file “90_09.bvh”.
Scroll down his page to see the link to sub-pages for named ‘Animation Categories’, e.g.
Instructions for loading .BVH to a Poser figure, here. Sadly there’s still no drag-and-drop of .BVH in Poser.
iRay to Klein 4B – tested with leaping leprechauns!
Following last night’s Poser test of Klein 4B, someone asked ‘Do we need Poser’s real-time Comic Book linework?’ in the source image. Well, here’s a test with the Genesis 3 Madgloom figure and some quickly applied steampunk clothing, rendered in pure iRay in DAZ Studio. As you can see, a relatively dark iRay render of an unoptimized figure doesn’t phase Klein.
I added additional prompting to get the green hatband, green eyes and skin, to thus make Madgloom into a sort of ‘Leaping Leprechaun’ comic-book super-villain. The unwanted invented strap across the waistcoat was later removed with an additional prompt telling Klein to retain the clothing exactly. The fixed seed of ’42’ ensures restyling reproducibility.
So, no. When promoting for a comic-book style at least, that’s what you get. Comic-book. With other styles, the comic-book lines from Poser may matter more in the end result.
Poser to Klein 4B – the demo sheet for restyles
I found some time to do a demo sheet for a few of the many restyles that can be prompted for in German’s superb Flux.2 Klein 4b AI model. No LoRAs or Embeddings required. The figure is Nursoda’s Chull, and the quick Bondware Poser render used as the source-image is deliberately very basic, with no attempt to change the grungy fabric or the dark eyes, or to do a fancy full render.
See the full-sized image for the fine detail. I didn’t get around to some of the thicker oil painting or charcoal styles, but it can also do that. Watercolour I don’t like in Klein, it’s too blotchy and splashy.
All generations were made with a static seed of ’42’, for reproducibility.
Poser to Klein 4B – style change without a LoRA
Another ‘Poser to AI’ style success. A while back I made some Poser renders with Nursoda’s Chull figure, to test with Flux Kontext and style transfer. It was a failure. However we now have Flux2 Klein 4B, made in Germany, which is dual-use as it also has a wonderful Edit mode. There are only a few style LoRAs for 4B, but tonight I dug out my Chull renders and I find that the model is so flexible that one can just prompt for a style and get it consistently.
Here we see Chull being given a style makeover by Klein with just a short instructional prompt and a fixed seed. Klein’s Edit mode is working much like an old-school Photoshop filter. The result is a little washed out, but the registration between the original Poser render and the Klein is fairly exact… which means that Photoshop can easily correct that. Just lay the Poser source render on top of the Klein output, and set the ‘Multiply’ layer-blending mode.
The end result is quite appealing. At least when seen at a large size. Like all artwork with very fine lines, it’s not graphic enough to work well at small sizes. Such as in a small comic panel. But for a full-page children’s storybook illustration, it has a lot of appeal.
Problems are that Klein retains the 3D ‘ribbon style’ hair, and that the gaze direction has shifted. Gaze direction was prompted for, asking for it to remain fixed. But in the full-length Klein output we still get the dreaded “must stare at the camera” problem. In the close-up Klein output one of the eye pupils has been squished a little. Possibly Klein doesn’t understand ‘gaze’, though.
Still, not bad for a first proper attempt at a LoRA-less style makeover with Klein.
Release and test: Ace-Step 1.5
I tried out the new Ace-Step 1.5 in ComfyUI. It is local and as fast as is claimed at generating music tracks with lyrics. About three minutes for a two minute track, on a 3060 12Gb card.
The official demos work fine when plugged in locally, but as soon as you depart one iota from these things start to fall apart. Lines of lyrics you specified are not sung. Music is often slightly ‘off’ or ‘wobbles’ for several seconds at a time. The actual genre can start to change. On top of this each generation is different, if you change so much as word in the lyrics. It’s impossible to iterate from a good starting point.
I then tried from scratch to get genres I knew, even with quite sophisticated prompts which worked with the guidelines in the official guide, it repeatedly veered towards rather generic and sometimes outright cheesy canned music. Prompting for Eno-style ambient music failed dismally, as did aiming at a early Gary Numan or Kraftwerk sound. Many times its output reminded me of the old ‘Band in a Box’ software.
Overall, impossible to iterate on and very very difficult to control. Disappointing, given the hype that led up to it. Still, you may be able to generate generic vocal-free soundtracks for animation, slideshows, visual-novels etc. But then again, Suno does have a free-tier that’s very capable and would be the better choice.
Lightwave 26 – due soon
The venerable LightWave 3D software… still alive, and still free for education users. An open beta for the forthcoming Lightwave 26 is reportedly set for spring 2026, with “speed increases for rendering and interface” along with…
“over 50 new features and 30+ interface changes, alongside under-the-hood improvements for speed. Planned features include SDF (non-polygon geometry), glTF, Ripper 2, OpenColorIO, Ocean Boat and Wake, Motor Rig, Chronoscope, USD True Fillet, Rig It tidy-up, a quadruped system, Octane updates, snow and lightning generators with animatable controls, flame fractals, a new fracture tool, Construct update, an asset browser, and AP (physics-based object placement)”.
However it sounds like the Poser 11 -> E-on Vue route to exporting Poser scenes for recent versions of Lightwave could be bjorked…
“due to 26’s focus on utilizing newer technologies, potentially cutting off older systems.”
Though that might just mean it won’t run on older PCs and older graphics cards? My guess.
What’s New for Poser & DAZ & AI – January 2026
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Welcome to my regular pick of goodies for Poser and DAZ, and my round-up of other interesting software.
Science fiction:
Robo Pack. Lovely looking bots, and currently a lovely $14 price too. But… then you find out that they’re “props” and not rigged, which explains the price. Still, very nice designs.
Need your Area 52 UFOs repairing? dForce Tech Engineer Outfit.
Fantasy:
Stonemason’s Lakehaven, which could make a pretty good Laketown in Middle-earth.
Ashkin and Arboriel probably run the new Lumina Botanica market wall-stall.
Gothic and horror:
Gharton for Poser. Not sure if it’s a D&D monster, so beware of commercial use.
Snake Man for Poser and Blattodacid for Poser. Again, possibly D&D monsters?
Steampunk:
Elven Zeppelin by 1971s. For Poser and DAZ. I don’t recall seeing this one before, and I don’t think it’s a re-release?
Fire Fly by 1971s. Another new release? Moon Observatory not included but it’s here.
Steampunk Operator HD Stylized Clothes for Genesis 9. It seems you don’t also get the stylised hair and beard, so I guess they’ll be in another pack yet to be released?
An unusual Tinheart Clockwork Set.
Storybook:
Cooking Kitchen, a semi-toon kitchen.
The Cog Regime Tinsel Void Automaton. A mechanised helper for Santa.
Toon:
Christmas Delight toon props for Poser.
Pumpkin Ride toon prop for Poser.
Free, Skylab’s Complete Collection of poses and morphs for Nursoda characters for Poser.
Free, Poses for Gruggle Monk from 3D Universe.
Figures and parts:
Free, a collection of Skylab’s pose sets for Poser, that were on the old ShareCG website.
Currently free at DAZ, two large sets of G3 male poses, i13 50 Essential and i13 Elite Collection.
Free, Update: G3/G8/G9 Pose Converter Plugin for DAZ Studio.
Landscapes, seascapes and environment props:
A modular Mountain Pathways set for Poser.
Free, 3D .OBJ models of raindrops on windowpanes.
Animals:
Songbird ReMix Parrots Vol 7 – Parrotlets of the World 2. For Poser and DAZ.
Nature’s Wonders Slugs & Snails. For Poser and DAZ.
DA Bull Terrier for Daz Dog 8.
Torajin for Big Cat 2. A giant fantasy kitty.
Historical:
Free, Skylab’s Decade of Bible Themed Poses, formerly at ShareCG.
Free Holy Spirits for G8F+G8M.
Mediaeval Grindstone, rigged and with two G8 poses.
LOWREZ People 17th century, low poly baroque people.
Camera Noir for Poser, a classic 1930s newspaperman camera.
A Moebius / 1970s style VYK La Pouf for Genesis 9.
Scripts and other auto-helpers:
LowPi Formations Builder. Auto-build formations of military men (low-poly), for large scale battle scenes.
KBXF Slow Motion Player for DAZ. Seems to be a helper for animators.
Software:
* Alpha-Trimmer, a new free… “Windows tool that automatically trims excess transparent areas from .PNG images, via the Windows context menu (i.e. the right-click menu)”.
* Nikse is a free open-source subtitle editor / extractor / converter, able to convert between 300 subtitle formats.
* Blender v5 is now at v5.1. Also note the free Blender-ComfyUI-Bridge, promising… “real-time, bidirectional communication between Blender and ComfyUI” in a round-trip. Python, so one wonders if it could be adapted for Poser.
AI and similar helpers:
All free, as is the way with local AI.
* SD-ppp one of the best known ways to connect Photoshop to ComfyUI, now updated to a late December 2025 version. Sadly it requires the very latest version of Photoshop. There appears to be no ComfyUI connector for Photoshop versions lower than CC 2019.
* Collection of simple fixed user-interfaces for ComfyUI, for the node-phobic.
* Flux2 Klein is the latest hot Edit model. It’s a marvel, and its 4B GGUFs (working workflow) can be run fast on low-spec hardware. See also the vital Official prompting Guide for Flux.2 Klein.
* Flux2 Klein can do face-swaps on its own, with a simple prompt (e.g. “Extract the face from image 1 and paste it into Image 2, completely replacing the face. Retain the exact facial features in image 1.”). But there’s also a dedicated Face-Swap and Head-Swap(!) assistant for Flux2 Klein 4B, with workflows.
* Also for 4B. Flux2 Klein 4B Spritesheet generator, which looks like it may be of interest to those in the early stages of modelling an object in 3D. Since it outputs top-down and side views from a simple photo of an object…
* SAM-3D-Pose-Analyzer is a Python software with GUI. Drop in a photo of a pose, get a .BVH pose output that will then pose a 3D figure in Clip Studio. The possibilities for adapting this to do the same for Poser figures are obvious.
* ComfyUI-face-shape. Detects the face shape/features in a 2D image, then sets these up for your warping. Offering… “extensive control over individual facial features including outer head outline (with separate jaw and forehead controls), eyes (with independent rotation), irises, eyebrows, nose (single merged object), and lips (upper and lower with direction-specific scaling)”. I’m fairly sure there was Windows face-morphing funware that did this, back in the day. But it’s good to see AI catching up.
* “Inochi2D is an open standard for real-time 2D puppet animation”, and it now has ComfyUI-Inochi2d nodes. Never heard of it, but possibly useful for 2D puppeteers.
* ComfyUI nodes for “overlay alignment, colour correction based on a reference image”. In Russian, but easily auto-translated. Related is FluxKontextImageCompensate, an attempt to fix the problem of unwanted image shifting, cropping and zooming. The problem is not unique to Flux Kontext, as all Edit models suffer from it to an extent.
* A huge Celebrity LoRA browser with preview images and links to the whereabouts. Sadly it uses .PNG for images, so loads very slowly.
* ComfyUI-Align, a simple intuitive way to straighten up your messy ComfyUI node workflows.
* And finally, Fixed Clean Styles – DAZ Studio, a LoRA that renders your Z-Image Turbo images like it’s 1999 and you just made a DAZ render that took four hours.
Coming soon:
* TeleStyle, when implemented for ComfyUI. Complete style makeovers for video files (e.g. live-action to rotoscoped-style drawing) with temporal stability (i.e. no flicker / wobble between frames). Some say this can already be done, but this appears to make it much easier to do. Probably in ComfyUI within weeks.
* Intel OIDN 3. Already integrated into Poser, OIDN nicely denoises grainy 3D renders and thus reduces render times. The new 3.0 version promises temporal stability for de-noising of video frames rendered from 3D, which should interest Poser animators looking to render quickly. Due in Q3 2026.
* VNCCS Pose Studio node for ComfyUI. Currently in early beta (see the 0.4 release) and untested by me as yet, but potentially it looks like having a basic mini-Poser inside ComfyUI. Could be a game-changer?
Character reference -> ‘pose and position’ window -> generated image with posed character in the desired position.
That’s it for now.
Pre-release: Clip Studio 5.0 due in March 2026.
Pre-release: Clip Studio 5.0 due in March 2026.
CELSYS News brings news of Clip Studio 5.0, the complicated comic-book production software from Japan, which is set for a March 2026 release.
* A new and better 3D hand model, and it seems to be able to scan a photo of your hand and apply it to a 3D figure’s hand.
* “Group 3D models”, a recently integrated tweak.
* “3D head models […] have been added” as a new feature.
Their 3D models are of the basic ‘car-crash dummy’ type, meant as guides for hand-drawing over. Not Poser-like models.
Qwen3 TTS – install and test in ComfyUI
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Qwen3 TSS has been released, and it allows local ‘prompt to custom character’ voices. This adds a whole new dimension to local text-to-speech (TTS). It’s also a pleasingly small model at around 5Gb total (if you already have many TTS Python requirements), so is very feasible for those with older graphics cards and slower Internet connections. It has an Apache 2.0 license, so is fully open-source and available for commercial use. All the below requirements are free, as is the way with local AI.
As you can see, you can describe your exact voice and the audio generated conforms to the description. Voices can be described with great detail, far more than shown above, and their modulation over time also (e.g. “rising excitement”). There are obvious uses here for unusual character voices for animation, games, audio drama, vocal additions to audio soundscapes, etc.
Tested and working, after a lot of work. Here’s how to manually install for ComfyUI portable:
1. In ..\ComfyUI\models\ create the new local folders ..\ComfyUI\models\qwen-tts\Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign\ and its subfolder ..\speech_tokenizer\
2. Download the required models Hugging Space at Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign and speech_tokenizer.
Put the downloaded files into their locally pre-prepared folder and sub-folder.
3. Now get FlybirdXX’s ComfyUI-Qwen-TTS custom nodes to run these models. Windows Start button, CMD, cd into the ComfyUI custom nodes directory, then…
git clone https://github.com/flybirdxx/ComfyUI-Qwen-TTS
4. Install the requirements for the new custom nodes. Start, CMD, cd to the ComfyUI embedded Python directory, then…
C:\ComfyUI_portable\python_standalone\python.exe -s -m pip install -r C:\ComfyUI_portable\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\ComfyUI-Qwen-TTS\requirements.txt
(Replace ComfyUI_portable with whatever your local path is).
There should be no conflicts, as yesterday’s patch for these custom nodes fixed the official Qwen TTS demanding transformers==4.57.3 which could have killed Nunchaku (which requires a lower version).
5. These Custom Nodes require a download of SoX which is an .EXE installer. Sox is a venerable freeware sound-exchange code library, kind of like ImageMagik… but for sound. After install you must add it to your Windows PATH. Thanks to Promethean Dante for the fix here…
Looking at the node code it seems SOX is only needed if you try to generate on CPU rather than GPU, but the lack of it prevents the nodes from loading in ComfyUI. It seems you need both the Python sox module installed (it installed along with the requirements.txt – see above), and its Windows framework via the .EXE installer.
6. Start ComfyUI, and set up a simple workflow thus with the new nodes…
Time: 70 seconds for a five second clip, on a 3060 12Gb card. Reasonable, not super-turbo but workable.
The basic requirements of Qwen3 TTS are compatible with a ComfyUI portable install — Python 3.8 or higher, PyTorch 2.0 or higher, so the above custom node set won’t bjork your PyTorch by trying to upgrade it. Beware others similar custom nodes for Qwen3 TTS in ComfyUI that will try to upgrade Pytorch to 2.9 (not good, for a portable Comfy).
First proper test of Klein 4B + LoRA, with a Poser render
My first proper test with the new Flux2 Klien 4B and the first LoRA. Whoopee. Which, as it happens, is a nice one that works well. Quilm v3, available at CivitAI. Here we use Klien as an Edit model, rather than as an image generator. Think of it as a super-duper Img2Img mode than can follow instructions. And do so quite quickly, even on an entry-level 3060 12Gb graphics-card.
1. Start with a basic and rather unpromising Poser render (the snail is too dark, for instance). The Poser character is Ronk by Nursoda. Drop the render in the Edit mode reference-image slot in your ComfyUI workflow.
2. Prompt.
Reskin the image quilm style, with subtle colors applied uniformly onto dry paper. Retain all shapes, lines and edges exactly as in the reference image. the figure is looking down at his hand. The final output should isolate the figure on a background of pure white.
4. The result is not a 100% fit, but very near and good enough for a colour blend mode in Photoshop. Such a blend is vital to stabilise the colours, important for sequential storytelling such as a comic-book or children’s storybook.
Nice, and the eye is changed by the LoRA in a pleasing way that adds emotion. But the skin is washed out and near-white, the hat shadow is verging on purple, the cheek splashes are too pink, etc.
5. To fix these colour problems, use Photoshop. Copy the original Poser render and “paste in place”, as a new layer sitting on top of the ComfyUI output. Not a 100% perfect fit, but good enough for a Colour blend mode of the layer at 60% to work, thus quickly ensuring a more uniform colour for storytelling purposes.
Note that one can’t use watercolour in the prompt, as Klein has its own and horribly splashy ideas about what watercolour should look like. The other problem is the figure has acquired three fingers on one hand. This ‘crab hand’ glitch is apparently is a function of the workflow. Here I use res_multistep and simple, but I’m told setting Euler Ancestral and beta57 gives better hands. Anyway, it’ll do as a moderately successful first proper test.
Klein 4B runs locally and is under a permissive Apache license, so commercial use is fine.
Update: Hah! The second LoRA released for 4B is also very useful, Flat Color – Style.
Update: Just tested Euler + beta57, and it does indeed fix a hand which had three fingers. As Reddit had suggested. Exactly the same workflow + fixed seed, so it must be beta57. Also usefully appears to fix the colour saturation problem.
First test of Flux 2 Klein 4B with Poser
I made an initial basic test with the new Flux 2 Klein 4B, using it on a simple Firefly lineart-only render from Poser. Flux 2 Klein 4B is different from the recent and comparable Z-Image Turbo, in that it’s also a lightweight local Edit model as well as a prompt-to-image model. That means you can feed it an image and tell it to e.g. “Reskin this image in a charcoal sketch style”. And in ten seconds (on a 3060 12Gb card), out it pops. Far faster than the old Flux Kontext.
In this case it doesn’t quite work like a 1:1 Photoshop filter, but very nearly. As you can see in the blended third section, it has slightly expanded the toe of one shoe, the back of the leg, and moved the waistcoat back a bit. But other than that it’s close enough to be able to lay a Poser colour render on top in Photoshop, and then use the Photoshop blending modes to colorise the grey. Thus getting the all-important consistent colours from panel-to-panel and page-to-page in a comic.
Not bad for a first result. One can input two images in the Flux 2 Klein 4B workflow, so it may also be possible to add… “and apply just the colours from image 2” to the prompt? Thus saving work in Photoshop. (Update: no, it appears that can’t be done).
What’s New for Poser & DAZ – December 2025
Welcome to another page of picks for the Poser and DAZ Studio software, plus some links to other useful new software.
Science fiction:
He probably pilots the Aetherpod for Poser and DAZ.
XI Sci-Fi Industrial Factory, a complex DOOM-like factory environment.
Neon Bazaar by Stonemason. A futuristic desert cyber-bazaar. The new XI Cyberpunk Hotel Lobby might serve as one interior.
Free G8M-hand poses for Pulp Scifi Pistol and for Pulp Scifi Pistol 2.
Gothic and horror:
A free Vampire Hunter for G9M.
The vampire hunter possibly to be found near the Forgotten Tunnel Entrance, currently free at DAZ.
Steampunk:
Free FTTV (flying tactical transport vehicle) in three parts.
Need a pilot for the giant fly? Just slap on the new Heila Drifter Helmet for GF9.
Montgolfiere hot-air balloon, currently free at DAZ.
Fantasy:
NDFP Woods Druids for Genesis 9 and they also have various accessories and pose packs.
Storybook:
Christelf for Kids 4. An free elf head morph.
Lumberjack House for DAZ Studio.
Toon:
Need toon beavers? The McKenzie Brothers might be what you want. For Poser and DAZ.
Flinks Rolling Hills – Snow Forest and Flinks Snow Trees pack, for Poser.
A free Christmas Wind Up Mouse for Poser.
Figures and parts:
Free Genesis 9 Headmorphs, including elf style heads and ears. See also the free Dawn 2 Fae Faces and Ears.
Free Ski Stuff for Poser.
Landscapes, seascapes and environment props:
Photo Props: Rolling Waves for DAZ Studio.
Free Cracked Soil strips for E-on Vue, with displacement.
Flinks Icicles, 60 different icicle props.
A realistic Winter in the Forest, a wide scene for DAZ containing a sparse pine forest with frozen pools.
Animals:
Nature’s Wonders Beetles of the World: Volume 2. Including cockroaches, Colorado potato beetles, and lightning bugs.
Free Dinosaur Equipment for Poser, with fits for some RP and DR dinosaurs.
Prehistoric Anomalocaris for Poser, for underwater scenes set in ancient seas.
A modern GCJ Crayfish for DAZ Studio.
Historical:
Poser Firefly Mats for Snood Hair, a mediaeval hairstyle.
1971s’s Coffee Corner for Poser and also available for DAZ. Part of the scene might be adapted as an 18th century London coffee-house entrance.
Wild West Workshops 1 for DAZ. A big wide covered barn, perhaps also suitable for tinkering with Wright Brothers style flying-machines.
An outdoor Ice Skating Rink for DAZ, of the sort common in the Edwardian period.
1930s sci-fi movie style Apex Noir Body suit for G9F.
A free Statler Speedboat (part, of 5). A classic one-person speedboat that also looks retro-futuristic.
Vintage Guitar and Amp, 1960s Country Music style.
Scripts and other auto-helpers:
A new script to help with Poser camera management. Scroll down to the bottom of the thread for V3.
Visibility Helper for DAZ Studio.
DAZ Anilip 2 First Impressions video and Workflow Demonstration.
An update for the free G3/G8/G9 Pose Converter Plugin for DAZ Studio 4.2x.
Sighmoan1’s Colourchanger. Change the background colour of a batch of images with a simple Python script. Many uses, e.g. if your old greenscreen backdrop wasn’t quite compatable with a new greenscreen remover?
A paid Creative Pipeline Bundle. Apparently includes Blender to DAZ “Transfer custom characters, rigs, textures, and animations with perfect material fidelity”, and Photoshop .PSD to Blender. Expensive, but presumably aimed at character creators for the DAZ Store.
Blender 5.0 final is out, and among other things bumps up the ‘micropoly displacement’ in Cycles from experimental to official and also appears to have re-named it. Sadly 5.0 came out only about nine days before Poser 14, so apparently Poser’s newest Cycles doesn’t have this feature yet.
AI and similar helpers:
All free, as is the way with local AI.
ComfyUI 3D Index… “A curated index of 220+ ComfyUI nodes for 3D generation, processing, and visualization.” Last updated December 2025.
The new model Qwen Image Layered, for Img-to-PSD (layered). Automatic extraction of elements in a single image, to layers.
The latest InvokeAI now supports Z-Image Turbo. Invoke is the main competitor to ComfyUI, but hides the nodes and is more Photoshop-like.
Z-Image Turbo demos for some of the artistic styles that can simply be prompted for. Note also that Z-Image Turbo, fast though it is, can be more than doubled in speed with the Hunchaku 256 version (NVIDIA only). Nunchaku and other speed-ups are worth investigating, before you buy a new graphics-card — it may be that the 2X boost you want from the card can be had from free speed-ups.
My tests show the following SDXL LoRAs also work with SD 1.5: SDXL Syd Mead | SDXL Inkdrawing | Watercolour comic-book (Gabriel-Ba style) | and Scifi Fantasy Book Cover – SDXL (Peter Andrew Jones style).
Radeon graphics cards now have much better compatibility with ComfyUI. The new AMD ROCm 7.1.1 Preview driver is now officially supported by the very latest ComfyUI Desktop/Portable (v0.7.0), and workarounds like Zluda are no longer needed. This may be important for some because the 24Gb Radeon cards (especially important for video generation and use of large LLMs) are significantly more affordable than NVIDIA.
Houdini 21 is out, and there’s a Houdini ComfyUI bridge 0.5 (Jan 2026) to use ComfyUI image generation within the pro-level Houdini software.
ComfyUI-NAG restores your negative prompts for fast / turbo / DMD models that require CFG 1.0 (and thus don’t ordinarily allow negative prompting).
Liveportrait lets you adjust eye-gaze direction in any image. Especially useful for comics.
In audio, the new TTS Chatterbox Turbo in ComfyUI, with batch. Chatterbox produces high-quality AI voices, based on voices you supply as reference .WAV files. There’s also Stable Audio with batch, for making sound FX files from text prompts.
That’s for now!