Building the bridge between traditional VFX production and AI-enhanced workflows — building tools, not just using them.
Custom ComfyUI nodes and AI pipeline tools for production VFX:
Experimental custom sampler for Deforum-style zoom animations through iterative feedback loops.
Add and remove stabilization frames with synchronized audio for video diffusion models.
Advanced latent space transformations during diffusion sampling.
- Musubi Tuner — Contributor to Kohya's video model training framework
- ComfyUI-KJNodes — Merged PR #554 (uint8 overflow fix in
GrowMaskWithBlur) - Sammie-Roto — Merged PR #16 & PR #20: image sequence I/O for VFX compositing pipelines
Gen AI Innovation Specialist @ DNEG Brahma (Jan 2026 - Present) Identifying and prototyping cutting-edge GenAI technologies for tier-1 VFX production. Building ComfyUI pipelines, training custom models, and serving as the bridge between research and production.
AI Technical Artist / Generative AI Engineer @ UPP a.s. (Jan 2024 - Dec 2025) Led AI initiatives for commercial production, delivering AI-enhanced VFX from concept to final delivery.
- Built scalable ComfyUI workflows and automated AI solutions deployed studio-wide
- Reduced shot iteration time by 60% through AI-enhanced previsualization
- Trained and deployed custom Flux / WAN models for client-specific requirements
- Delivered AI-heavy shots for high-profile advertising campaigns
- Conducted technical workshops training artists across disciplines
Houdini Artist / VFX Generalist @ UPP a.s. (Jan 2020 - Dec 2023) Procedural systems, lookdev, and lighting for high-end commercials.
AI/ML: ComfyUI custom nodes · Stable Diffusion · Flux · WAN · Identity LoRA training · Model fine-tuning · PyTorch · Python VFX: Houdini · Blender · Nuke · After Effects · Production pipeline development Pipeline: Python automation · Git · API development · Tool development
- GenAI R&D for next-gen VFX production pipelines
- New ComfyUI custom nodes for production workflows
- Upstream contributions to the ComfyUI and video-diffusion ecosystem


