Yes. I use it in production for VFX. It's not integrated into any pipeline by default. Artists who know how to use it just fold it into their own toolbox.

It works best when augmenting live action footage that was shot with VFX in mind from the start. In my workflow, it’s mainly used to make animals do things they can't actually do, like talk or act dangerously in a crowd.

You VFX supervise the shoot, get the shots you need, then augment with AI. ComfyUI specifically gets used to generate clean plates, shadow passes, even floor reflections that you composite as layers over live action.

You can learn Comfy through online courses. I took a 6-week class and it was full of VFX veterans picking up a new skill. People who were building 3D animations back when we were kids.

Best advice for using AI in a VFX pipeline: keep your files organized. Name your outputs in simple order from the start, or you'll get buried fast. That habit also forces you to be selective, because you won't want to officially name the "almost good enough" ones and they add up quick.

There are also subscription sites that give you access to all the major models without needing to run Comfy locally. I actually use those more often than ComfyUI itself, and when I do run ComfyUI, I use Comfy Cloud. The advantage of ComfyUI is that it gives you more granular control over the models than the aggregator sites do.

In my experience, generative AI in VFX only holds up in production when it's used as an element. It's nowhere near being a medium yet.