No Limits! Upscale images to 4K locally totally free

David walks Ilan through a local ComfyUI workflow that chains three AI models to upscale generated images from 720p all the way to 4K, with a side mission of fixing that plastic-y AI skin look. Chapters 00:00 - Intro and what we are upscaling today 00:36 - Workflow overview and chaining three models 01:30 - Installing the ComfyUI Manager 02:30 - The download note and where models go 03:00 - Walking through CivitAI to grab the first 22GB model 05:00 - Epic Realism and SeedVR2 from ByteDance 06:00 - LoRAs, CLIP, VAEs, and refreshing node paths 08:00 - Generating the test image and loading the upscale workflow 09:30 - Running the three-pass upscale and what each model does 10:30 - Before and after at 4500 by 2500 12:00 - Final image, runtime, and going to 8K Hilarious Product Management Merch https://devilwearsproduct.shop Links Workflow: https://pastebin.com/SUtVN2Hh Password: Prompt and Circumstance Podcast Diffusion Models (models/diffusion_models): UltraFineTune: https://civitai.com/models/978314/ult... ZEpicrealismturbo FP8: https://civitai.com/models/2305301/z-... Checkpoints (models/checkpoints): Epic Realism XL Crystal Clear: https://civitai.com/models/277058/epi... Loras (models/loras) Aidma Realistic Skin: https://civitai.com/models/1157318/ph... SDXL Skin Realism: https://civitai.com/models/248951/ski... CLIP Clip_l: (models/clip) https://huggingface.co/comfyanonymous... Tt5xxl fp8: (models/text_encoders) https://huggingface.co/comfyanonymous... Text Encoders: Qwen 3 4b: (models/text_encoders) https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/z_im... Variational Autoencoders (models/upscale_models) Flux VAE (ae.safetensors): https://huggingface.co/lovis93/testll... Upscale Models (models/upscale_models) 4x Clear Reality: https://huggingface.co/skbhadra/Clear... SeedVR2 Models (models/SEEDVR2) Model: https://huggingface.co/numz/SeedVR2_c... VAE: https://huggingface.co/numz/SeedVR2_c... Find Us YouTube -    / @pandcpodcast   Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/pandcpodcast... X - https://x.com/_pandcpodcast Instagram -   / _pandcpodcast   LinkedIn -   / p-and-c-podcast