<aside> 💡 What is this? One person’s dream to make Comfy UI easier to use for AnimateDiff work!

More specifically: Examples of how a professional, node-based video compositing application (The Foundry’s Nuke) can work as inspiration for ComfyUI!

Below are a list of basic ideas for tasks that will help organize workflows, make them more modular and efficient.

I (will) provide screen captures of what Nuke does for reference!

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Nathan Shipley 1st draft: Nov. 24, 2023 last updated Dec. 18, 2023 nathanshipley.com

What is Nuke?

A node-based video compositing application commonly used in professional VFX, animation, and film environments.

Information available on the User Guide.

A non-commercial version of Nuke is available for download and experimentation!

The UI:

👀 Basic Comfy Improvements List

What can be done differently? Here are a list of areas to focus on. Screen captures below!

• Organization
  • Draggable, scalable text labels
  • Draggable, shift-selectable groups
  • Connections, drag either end of line
  • Adding dots to existing lines
  • Adding a dot to an existing connection before currently connected outputs
• Masks / Paint Node
• For Animation
  • Keyframes
  • Curve Editor
  • Dopesheet
• A Properties Panel?
• Node Search:
  • Keyboard shortcut to activate search
  • Same name for node in search / display
• Functionality
  • Editing Values: Selected by default
  • Undoable node movements!
  • “Starred Settings” panel - collects user-selected important settings in one place for each graph.

💭 Organization

Draggable, scalable text labels (Stickynotes)