May ships with renders ~30% faster across the roster, six new style presets joining the studio, and four new IP entries — including Solo Leveling and Frieren. Here's what changed and what to try first.
May's release is mostly about three things: speed, range, and roster. Renders are faster across every model in the studio, six brand-new style presets are live, and four anime / game IPs joined the roster. Total time to ship: nine days; total user-visible improvements: dozens. Here's the highlight reel.
Everything below is live now — no opt-in flag, no waitlist. Open the studio and the changes are already there.
01 · Faster Renders
Every model in the roster runs faster on the same plan after this build — image generation, video, and comic-panel sequences all see meaningful drops in median render time. The speed-up came from a model-routing rewrite that picks the cheapest backend that still meets your quality target, plus a queue-batching pass that bundles similar prompts.
| Output | Approx. before | Approx. after | Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image (1 piece) | ~8s | ~6s | Faster |
| Video (5s clip) | ~60s | ~40s | Meaningfully faster |
| Comic (4 panels) | ~35s | ~27s | Faster |
| Anime clip (8s) | ~120s | ~85s | Meaningfully faster |
02 · Six New Style Presets
The style library jumps from 24 to 30. The new entries fill three gaps the community kept asking for: warmer hand-drawn variants, sharper mecha looks, and one purpose-built for poster art.
- Vintage Cel — 1980s-era cel animation grain. Lower saturation, visible film texture. Pair with classic mecha or magical-girl IPs.
- Mecha Render — hard-edge industrial linework, panel-line emphasis, metallic highlights. Built for Attack on Titan gear, mecha pilots, and cyberpunk armour pieces.
- Soft Watercolour — washed colour, visible paper texture, looser linework. Good for slice-of-life, Frieren, and any landscape-led piece.
- Poster Print — high-contrast, two-to-three colour palette, strong silhouettes. Designed for prints, sticker sheets, and merchandise mockups.
- Manga Ink — pure black-and-white screentone aesthetic, faithful to printed manga. Pair with One Piece, Bleach, and Chainsaw Man.
- Glitch Pop — saturated palette, intentional RGB-split artefacts, scanlines. Perfect for VTuber edits and Y2K-revival aesthetics. Stacks well with the cyberpunk prompt patterns.
Recommended starting workflow: pick one new preset that overlaps an IP you've already rendered before. Re-run a prompt you've already shipped under the new preset and compare. The drift between old + new tells you the new preset's actual personality faster than any documentation will. The style preset cheat sheet groups all 30 presets by family if you want a structured starting point.
03 · IP Roster Adds
Four IPs are now first-class on the roster — meaning their character lists, default style recommendations, and prompt scaffolds are baked into the studio. No more typing the full character description from scratch.
- Solo Leveling — manhwa-derived, dark-fantasy palette, recommended preset Mecha Render or Cinema Toon
- Frieren — soft cel + watercolour, recommended preset Soft Watercolour or Animation Film
- Dandadan — modern shōnen with heavy panel design, recommended preset Action Comic or Manga Ink
- Mashle — magic-school comedy, recommended preset Cel Render or Clean Toon
04 · Smaller Stuff Worth Knowing
- Comic-panel mode now supports 1, 4, 6, and 9-panel layouts (up from 4-only).
- Negative-prompt parsing is more forgiving — `no [thing]` now works alongside the structured `negative:` field.
- Aspect-ratio picker remembers your last choice per output type.
- Anime mode (8-second clips) is out of beta and available on all paid plans — pairs well with the new HappyHorse video model.
- Discord auto-syncs your gallery if you connect once — useful for sharing without manual exports.
05 · What's Next
June's roadmap, in priority order: a long-form video mode (30-second clips), six more IPs (the most-requested holdouts), and a community remix feed where you can fork another creator's prompt with one click. We'll ship at least the first two by end of month.
FAQ
Do I need to update anything to get the speed improvements?
Are the new style presets free for all tiers?
Will Anime Mode work for the new IPs (Solo Leveling, Frieren, etc.)?
What's the next IP roster expansion?
TL;DR
Renders are roughly 30% faster across image, video, comic, and anime modes. Six new style presets bring the library to 30 — Vintage Cel, Mecha Render, Soft Watercolour, Poster Print, Manga Ink, Glitch Pop. Four new IPs join first-class roster: Solo Leveling, Frieren, Dandadan, Mashle. All free, all live now.
Every release should make something faster, something cheaper, or something newly possible. This one does all three.— elserip editorial
