cupscale VS chaiNNer

If you want to do more, there's chaiNNer and CupScale. You need to download an AI model to use those. There are a lot of anime/cartoon models out, so pick one that you like from here. (Note: Upscaly doesn't support these custom models.)

I'm not 100% sure how it holds up against topaz, but I've used cupscale (a gui for ESRGAN) to upscale most of my stuff. Its free (https://github.com/n00mkrad/cupscale) and you can find a million different ESRGAN models which are focused on different kinds of images (https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database).

Now upscaling isn't hard to do by itself, but the setup can be difficult. As I said earlier, ERSGAN is the preferable way to do it. (https://github.com/n00mkrad/cupscale) Cupscale is my preferred tool for doing it this way. (https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai) Gigapixel is another option that's easier for newcomers, but may not produce as good of results. They even have a free trial if you want to demo the tool.

I use cupscale for upscaling things. Allows chaining models and handles video.

For local there's cupscale and chainner

It is like Comfy UI Jr. but much easier to navigate. Huge amount of useful features, and you can connect it to the WebUI. I highly recommend checking it out: https://github.com/chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer

For the video it turned out a bit too "hairy" compared to many of the still images (I believe because of the long landscape aspect ratio), but I ran out of time to fiddle. I used the Seed Travel extension for the animation and ChaiNNer with the 4x-Valar upscaler.

While at it, check out ChaiNNer -> https://github.com/chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer

If you want to do more, there's chaiNNer and CupScale. You need to download an AI model to use those. There are a lot of anime/cartoon models out, so pick one that you like from here. (Note: Upscaly doesn't support these custom models.)

For local there's cupscale and chainner