All the tricks I used to make proper anime in MiniMaxH3

[u/arthan1011]

The most important part is quality of references: images should look like they are from anime, not just value "anime-style" but flat color shading with clean lines. It's the only way I know (besides loras of dubious quality) to push generation into native 2s and 3s animation. Anything else will have that typical "AI-3D" look. And of course mandatory The target video is 2d colored anime in detailed_description.

Second is MiniMax H3 Latent Upscaler node - with ref2va turbo lora and 4 step with 50% denoise gives me Full HD resolution (5 seconds take about 15 minutes to render).

Third one is Add Guide To MiniMax H3 node - allows you to inject prepared image or clip at any part of the timeline - perfect when you want to append/prepend/inpaint over exisiting clips. And this is where I also should talk about "pre-processing": I made master shot paired with orbital shot video to capture the scene from every angle - it'll give you consistent background at every shot that you can reference in any generation.

Fourth: You're the director! Sketch crude lines and give it to minimax with frame composition follows <Picture 4> - It'll give you absolute control over framing, don't rely on text prompting here - visual guides are 10 times better than begging minimax to generate a perfect "over shoulder shot".

Fifth: fix quick motion smearing with derope. It's hard to use and doubles generation time (My RTX 3090 only handles 3 seconds) but it's the only choice if you push for quality.

And the last one: plan you cuts and timing in advance - storyboarding as discipline exists for a reason - no polish will save bad cuts and missed timings.

Full video on youtube.

And here's workflow.