Anima Artist Recipe (Load)

Somebody pasted you a recipe - a JSON string from AnimaArtistRecipeSave - and promised it reproduces their exact Anima mix. AnimaArtistRecipeLoad is the paste side of that bargain. It unpacks the JSON into the pieces the workflow actually consumes: the artist chain and a ready-made preset payload. You paste, wire two outputs, and you're running their exact blend.

What you give it

recipe_json - the recipe string, multiline-paste friendly. That's the entire required input. If a recipe was saved with advanced options folded in, those come out too.

What comes out

• artist_chain - feed into AnimaArtistPack.artist_chain.
• preset (ANIMA_PRESET) - carries combine/fusion/strength; wire it into AnimaArtistPresetApply.preset, per the tooltip.
• advanced_options (ANIMA_OPTS) - for when the recipe included expert options and you want them applied explicitly.
• summary - a STRING describing what the recipe contained, which doubles as your "is this recipe even what I think it is" check.

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. Uninstall the original Anima-Artist-Mixer if present - both packs define the same node names and will shadow each other.

My take

The recipe system is the pack's quiet superpower for collaboration: the entire state of a fiddly mix - per-artist weights, layer routes, timing fades, stabilizers - survives as text. One caveat that applies to any recipe system: recipes carry configuration, not models or tags. If the sender's recipe names an artist that's a typo or a tag your setup doesn't recognize, the load will faithfully reproduce that too - so keep AnimaArtistChainPreview or AnimaArtistTagCheck handy after loading someone else's recipe. Garbage in, faithfully reproduced garbage out.