Comfy announces H3 Sync Sound Challenge winners: hundreds of entries from ~50 countries
Comfy-Org · reddit · 2026-09-04
Comfy's H3 Sync Sound Challenge (Aug 20–Sep 1) drew hundreds of entries from nearly 50 countries, all built on MiniMax's H3 audio-video sync model.
- Best Overall: 'Spin Cycle' by Visual Frisson (US) — self-recorded audio as reference for every H3 pass, cut stomp-style; 15/15 from the Comfy team in both rubrics, RTX 5090 prize
- Best Creative: 'Every Sound Leaves a Mark' by toki (Japan) — a clay creature transforms with each sound; fully H3-generated audio, unusually open repo with 8 annotated graphs and process logs
- Best Technical: 'Sonder Editor / References' by SonderSaid (Mexico) — custom nodes wired into a reference-driven H3 pipeline
- A separate Built with MCP track and three guest judges completed the panel
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