Hybrid ComfyUI Pipeline: Preserving Live-Action Performance While Transforming Scenes
jugernaut126 · reddit · 2026-07-28
A developer shared an experimental hybrid ComfyUI pipeline designed to transform existing live-action footage while fully preserving the original actor's performance.
Core Goals & Results:
- Performance Preservation: Instead of generating from scratch, it accurately maintains facial expressions, timing, and eye-lines.
- Environment Reconstruction: Transforms original daylight plates into stylized environments, rebuilding backgrounds to avoid a flat AI look.
- Lighting & Lens: Completely reworks lighting (daylight to stylized contrast) and adds simulated lens behaviors like focus breathing and bokeh stretch.
The creator shared before/after comparisons, split screens, and node graph screenshots, asking the community for feedback on parallax accuracy and potential breaking points in relighting.
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