Anima Artist Contact Sheet

AnimaArtistContactSheet is the pack's answer to a small, specific annoyance: when you render an A/B series - no-mixer baseline, solo artists, leave-one-out variants - you end up with a folder full of same-seed images that all look alike, and comparing them means squinting at thumbnails or juggling windows. This node collects them into one labeled grid so the comparison is literally a single image.

What you feed it

• images - the rendered variants. Wire in the VAE Decode output of your ABVariants fan-out (an IMAGE list); every item gets collected into one grid. This is required.
• labels - per-image labels. Wire AnimaArtistABVariants' label output here and each cell gets its name baked in. Optional, but it's the difference between a useful contact sheet and a wall of anonymous thumbs.
• cell_width - each cell scales to this width (aspect kept), default 512.
• columns - grid columns; 0 = automatic (near-square). Default 0 is fine.

What comes out

One output: sheet, a single IMAGE of the assembled grid, ready to save or preview like any image. Nothing else - it's a pure layout node.

Install

Manager → search "Anima Artist Mixer Forge", or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/peter119lee/Anima-Artist-Mixer-Forge

then restart. No extra dependencies. If the original Anima-Artist-Mixer is installed, disable it first - both packs define the same node names.

My take

Honestly? If the labels input didn't exist I'd call this a nice-to-have. With it, it turns the ABVariants output from a chore into a glanceable artifact you can save, share, or drop next to a before/after. The pairing the pack intends - ABVariants → decode → ContactSheet, plus AnimaArtistImpactMap for the two you care most about - is a complete little diagnostic pipeline that answers "is my artist chain doing anything" in one image instead of ten.