A recipe for flawless one-step distant faces in H3 without a SAM face-swap pass

robertwellesley · reddit · 2026-11-04

A detailed community recipe for generating clear distant faces "in camera" in H3, avoiding an extra SAM-based face swap:

2-Stage H3 workflow with latent upscale; Singularity 2.0, Pika at 1.0, R34l1ty at 1.0, LMS 0.5, DDIM Uniform, 2 seeds at 10-12 steps, denoise 1.0.
Reference image needs the face and side of head at 650-700px minimum plus a headless body, with "Match" enabled; follow the H3 Prompting Guide closely.
Output is 4K (2x 1080p), downscaled back to 1080p, reliably yielding clear 60px-tall faces in a 1920x1080 scene.
Verified for stills only (used for storyboarding); the author plans to test whether H3 preserves the face when the image feeds a video scene.

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