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• AUG 21
  Development· UI/UX· Usability

  Toonkit BTS ep.2: Sample Assets

  Behind Toonkit ep.2 introduces Sample Assets: hundreds of free character and background presets that teach users what a good reference image looks like and let them build characters without spending credits.

• AUG 14
  Development· AI animation studio· AI animation

  Your Own AI Animation Studio, Reimagined

  A New Toonkit Experience for Easier and More Convenient Animation Creation

• AUG 07
  Development· CDN· Debugging

  Images that wouldn't load in some regions

  Users in some regions couldn't see any of the work they had created. It never reproduced in our own environment, so we recreated the conditions of those regions to find the cause.

• AUG 07
  Development· Style LoRA· Civitai

  Finding Your Style with ComfyUI, Then Locking It In with Toonkit

  A guide to finding an art style in ComfyUI and locking it in with Toonkit's My Style LoRA training—covering CivitAI basics, reading workflows, stacking LoRAs, and upscaling to build a consistent 20-image style set.

• JUL 31
  Development· design· AI animation

  Keeping Dozens of Nodes and Connections Organized

  Behind the design of Toonkit's new Node Canvas: how we structured cards into header, content, and toolbar sections, color-coded connections by data type, and hid controls until needed to keep dozens of nodes easy to scan.

• JUL 20
  Development· UI/UX· Usability

  Toonkit BTS ep.1: Start templates

  Behind Toonkit ep.1 covers the Start Template screen shown when creating a new animation, and how splitting it for Story vs. Stylization users cut support tickets over 50% and dropped bounce rate below 20%.

• JUL 03
  Development· AI animation· AI generate image

  What If You Could Create AI Animations in Your Own Style?

  How Toonkit moved beyond ToonXL's preset styles to let users train their own LoRA on 20+ reference images, and how that training pipeline runs on AWS Batch—plus current limitations and what's next.

• MAY 08
  Development· Postmortem· Backup

  Looking back on the April 19 data incident

  On the evening of April 19, Toonkit had a data incident. Backups were being created automatically, but the structure meant they couldn't be restored independently when it mattered most. Here's what happened that day and what we changed in our backup and operational procedures afterward.