Fix It in prompt - Ep 003.mp4

The models keep changing, but the production advantage still belongs to artists who know what breaks—and how to fix it. This week on Fix It In Prompt, Alex Villabon and Doug Hogan catch up after a summer break and look at FLUX 3, MiniMax H3, the gap between closed APIs and local open-weight models, and why a production pipeline cannot be built on impressive demos alone. We get into The Odyssey's practical IMAX mirror rig, Lucy 2.5, Eyeline Labs' ID-V2V, Neill Blomkamp's Nightborne, ComfyUI training and workflow version control, hybrid AI/VFX skills, SmartRoto, and why final pixels still need artists who can finish the work. 💬 What AI or VFX workflow are you testing right now—and where does it still fall apart before the shot is production-ready? 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 EPISODE Black Forest Labs — FLUX 3: https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3 MiniMax H3 — official open weights: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 ComfyUI — MiniMax H3 guide and workflows: https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3 Decart — Lucy 2.5 real-time video editing: https://platform.decart.ai/models/lucy-edit-live Eyeline Labs — ID-V2V identity-preserving video restylization: https://github.com/Eyeline-Labs/ID-V2V The Allan McKay Podcast — ComfyUI in VFX Production with Doug Hogan https://allanmckay.libsyn.com/468-comfyui-in-vfx-production-with-doug-hogan NIGHTBORNE, a Neill Blomkamp AI short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wbtt2JxP7g The Odyssey's IMAX mirror system: https://www.motionpictures.org/2026/07/how-mirrors-became-the-key-to-filming-the-odyssey-entirely-with-imax-cameras/ Alex's Workflow Vault https://github.com/avillabon/ComfyUI\_Workflow\_Vault Official ComfyUI Tutorial for Beginners: Full Node Graph Basics (2026): https://youtu.be/TQhIYT1ZYGQ?si=7gDEODLDhhm826OR Doug Hogan — official Comfy workflow templates: https://comfy.org/workflows/doughogan/ Victor Perez — Generative AI for VFX, ComfyUI × Nuke course: https://victorperez.co.uk/ Foundry — SmartRoto: https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke-family/smartroto Compositing Academy — How SMART is State of the Art A.I Rotoscoping?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AinQkgdR6b8 ⏱️ TIMECODES 00:00 Coming back to an impossible release cycle 02:04 FLUX 3 and MiniMax H3 raise the ceiling 07:21 Will local weights match the API demos? 11:49 Seedance 2.5 pricing and the cost of pressing Run 13:43 The Odyssey's practical IMAX mirror trick 17:13 Comments, Hermes agents, and future guests 21:28 Lucy 2.5 and real-time diffusion 25:22 Eyeline Labs, ID-V2V, and Paul Debevec 27:56 Neil Blomkamp's Nightborne and letting artists experiment 36:16 Artist-led AI studios and hybrid VFX skills 39:25 Comfy 101 and where artists should start 45:20 Learning from other artists' node graphs 51:44 Alex's Workflow Vault, version control, and hardware 58:41 SmartRoto, subscriptions, and pricing artists out #DellProPrecision #DellProMax #DellTech #NVIDIA #AI #VFX #ComfyUI #OpenWeights #FLUX3 #MiniMaxH3 #LucyAI #Nuke #SmartRoto #Filmmaking