If you keep waiting six months for AI VFX to get easier, six months from now you may decide to wait another six months.
This week on Fix It In Prompt, Alex Villabon and Doug Hogan talk about why artists need to jump in now, why open-source models and workhorse workflows matter for repeatable production, and why finishing one AI shot does not give you the same economies of scale as building a reusable CG asset.
We get into Seedance 2.5, LTX-2.3, Krea 2 Raw, Blender MCP, model provenance, client restrictions, Google and A24, diffusion rendering, artist-owned micro-studios, and the value of finding the wins, saving them, and sharing them.
💬 What are the workhorse AI workflows you keep coming back to? Let us know in the comments.📬
CONTACT
Email us: fixitinpromptpodcast@gmail.com
Find Doug:
ComfyUI & VFX website: https://www.doughogan.com
ComfyUI Workflows: https://comfyui.sjv.io/OYydOG
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doughogan
Find Alex:
VFX + AI newsletter: https://alexvillabon.substack.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avillabon/
🔗 LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODEP
J Ace — Nexus workflow and film-financing update:https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/2066582725553996059
PJ Ace — Nexus hybrid feature-film announcement and teaser:https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/2062887190326304986
A.I. Warper — Blender MCP and Seedance reference-video workflow:https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2070162937181065547
Bilawal Sidhu — Seedance turning greyboxed 3D references into final pixels:https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2069825605994963047
Reid Hannaford — Blender previs and character-animation workflow:https://x.com/reidhannaford/status/2070507963429671062
fal — Open-source 3DREAL render-to-real IC-LoRA for LTX-2.3:https://x.com/fal/status/2070523006770630813
ShiveringCactus: VFX — VFX History: The Origin of After Effects:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LQyhSI56gU
⏱️ TIMECODES00:00 Community feedback and figuring it out together01:45 Don’t wait six months to start06:44 Open source as production insurance10:10 Why AI doesn’t inherit CG’s economies of scale13:36 Hybrid workflows and the final two percent18:09 VFX history and workhorse workflows22:58 LTX-2.3, Comfy Hub, and learning through play27:46 Seedance 2.5 raises the ceiling29:13 Model provenance, clients, and commercially safe AI36:04 Krea 2 Raw and models without baked-in taste44:11 Google, A24, and AI tools—not AI movies48:54 4K costs, proxy generations, and smarter testing50:27 Nexus, Blender MCP, and diffusion rendering58:39 Artist-owned micro-studios and the collective “we”
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