Anima Artist Inspector

"Something's wrong with my mix" is the most common sentence in any Anima artist-mixing thread, and AnimaArtistInspector is the pack's answer to it. Wire it onto your artist pack and it reads back the effective state of your workflow - parsed artists, weights, layer routes, timing routes, block map, and normalize state - with warnings when something's off. It's a debugging node, not a generation node: it takes the pieces you've already built and tells you what they resolve to.

The README's guidance is blunt: when a workflow behaves strangely, connect the Inspector and read the effective weights and warnings directly in ComfyUI instead of guessing. That's the whole pitch.

What it takes

The required input is artist_pack (the ANIMA_PACK output of AnimaArtistPack). Then, optionally, the exact settings you'd otherwise guess about:

• combine_mode and fusion_mode - which combine/fusion strategy is in effect.
• strength - the effective injection strength.
• advanced_options and preset - the ANIMA_OPTS/ANIMA_PRESET payloads, so the report reflects what the preset actually set.
• model - optional, but worth connecting: it lets the Inspector read the real block count instead of assuming 28.

What it gives you

One output: report (STRING), shown in the node's UI panel. On older ComfyUI frontends that don't render the panel, wire the STRING output into a Show Text node. The report covers parsed artists with their resolved weights, which layers and sampling windows each one is routed to, the block map, and the effective normalize state - plus runtime warnings for suspicious cross-attention or model-wrapper conflicts.

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; needs the usual Anima files when connected to a real model, but the report itself runs cheaply. Remove the original Anima-Artist-Mixer if installed.

My take

The Inspector shines in the specific case the compatibility notes describe: you've also got regional prompting or some other attention-patching node in the graph, and the artist effect has gone weak. The Inspector will show you whether the mixer's block map survived, whether normalization got flipped, and whether a route silently fell back. It won't fix the conflict for you - that's what compatibility_safe is for - but it stops you from debugging blind.