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The Allan McKay PodcastAuthor: Emmy Award Winner Speaker Mentor Visual Effects Expert
Allan McKay is an award winning Visual Effects Supervisor and Technical Director in Hollywood - join Allan as he interviews many of the leading experts in Hollywood about their careers, pitfalls and what they took to succeed, while also gaining a lot of core knowledge to help build your career, money and success and skills to make the biggest impact in your career AND in your life! Language: en Genres: Business, Careers, TV & Film Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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468 - ComfyUI in VFX Production with Doug Hogan
Thursday, 30 July, 2026
Doug Hogan is a VFX Supervisor, Senior Compositor and Creative Technologist with nearly two decades of experience across feature films, animation, advertising, theme parks and immersive media. His credits include Space Jam: A New Legacy, G-Force, Scoob! and Free Birds. Doug currently works as a Senior Creative Technologist at Groove Jones and advises the ComfyUI team on studio-focused features. He specializes in bridging traditional visual effects pipelines with emerging AI technology, developing practical workflows that combine tools such as ComfyUI and Nuke for professional production. In this Podcast, Allan McKay speaks with Doug Hogan about the rapidly evolving role of AI in visual effects, integrating ComfyUI into traditional production pipelines, and separating practical, production-ready workflows from the hype surrounding generative AI. They discuss how artists can approach these tools without abandoning the fundamentals, the changing role of the compositor and creative technologist, and what VFX professionals need to understand as AI becomes a larger part of real-world production. Doug's Website: www.DougHogan.com Fix It In Prompt Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/033DTyXeBnJ62xPeeQGZ98 Doug's ComfyUI Course: https://www.actionvfx.com/academy/introduction-to-comfyui-for-vfx Free Action VFX Course: https://www.actionvfx.com/academy/the-new-vfx-career-playbook
