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## Summary
Add a new customer story for Groove Jones — Crocs x NFL FOOH holiday
campaign for Dick's Sporting Goods, delivered with Comfy.
## Changes
- **What**:
- New entry in
[`apps/website/src/config/customerStories.ts`](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend/blob/feat/groove-jones-customer-story/apps/website/src/config/customerStories.ts)
registering slug `groove-jones` with cover image hosted on
`media.comfy.org/website/customers/groove-jones/`.
- Added `customers.story.groove-jones.{category,title,body}` and
`customers.detail.groove-jones.topic-1` … `topic-10` translations (en +
zh-CN) in
[`apps/website/src/i18n/translations.ts`](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend/blob/feat/groove-jones-customer-story/apps/website/src/i18n/translations.ts).
10 sections matching design sidebar: INTRO, THE OUTPUT, THE PROBLEM, HOW
COMFY SOLVED THE PROBLEM, BRAND-TRAINED LORAS, MULTI-MODEL
ORCHESTRATION, THE PIPELINE, VERSION CONTROL, FINISHING IN NUKE, THE
TAKEAWAY.
- Includes 2 pull quotes (Doug Hogan, Dale Carman), 1 final blockquote +
author card, and 3 inline images.
- Routes `/customers/groove-jones` and `/zh-CN/customers/groove-jones`
are auto-generated by `[slug].astro`.
## Review Focus
- Contributors author card uses `TBD` placeholder names/roles — to be
filled in.
- No `readMoreHref` set yet (no public blog post URL).
- All 4 images uploaded to
`gs://comfy-org-videos/website/customers/groove-jones/` and served via
`media.comfy.org`.
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by [Unito](https://www.unito.io)
Co-authored-by: Amp <amp@ampcode.com>
en: 'Groove Jones, a Dallas-based creative studio, used Comfy to deliver a hyper-realistic FOOH holiday campaign for the Crocs x NFL collection on a fast-approaching deadline.',
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'达拉斯创意工作室 Groove Jones 借助 Comfy,在紧迫的节日档期内为 Crocs x NFL 联名系列交付了超写实的 FOOH 营销内容。'
en: 'Groove Jones, a Dallas-based creative studio, builds AI-driven campaigns and immersive experiences for major brands where photoreal polish, creative ambition, and social-ready speed all have to land together. As their work expanded across AI Video, AR, VR, and WebGL for clients like Crocs, the NFL, and Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods, they faced a recurring challenge: delivering feature-film-quality VFX on commercial timelines and budgets.',
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'位于达拉斯的创意工作室 Groove Jones,为众多大牌客户打造由 AI 驱动的营销活动和沉浸式体验,需要同时兼顾照片级的精细度、创意野心,以及适配社交媒体的交付速度。随着他们为 Crocs、NFL 和 Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods 等客户的工作扩展到 AI 视频、AR、VR 和 WebGL,他们反复遇到同一个挑战:用商业项目的工期和预算,交付电影级的 VFX 质量。'
en: 'For the Crocs x NFL collection holiday launch, that challenge came to a head. The brief called for hyper-realistic video of giant NFL-licensed Crocs parachuting into real Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods parking lots, across multiple locations, delivered on a fast-approaching holiday deadline. A live-action shoot plus a traditional CG pipeline was off the table.',
en: 'A full FOOH (faux out-of-home) social campaign delivered on a tight holiday deadline\nHyper-realistic videos of giant NFL-licensed Crocs parachuting onto Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods parking lots\nVertical 9:16 deliverables at 2K for Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts\nSame-day iteration on client notes instead of week-long asset updates\nWinner, Aaron Awards 2024: Best AI Workflow for Production',
en: 'A traditional pipeline for this creative meant a live-action shoot at multiple store locations plus a full CG build: high-res modeling of every team\u2019s clog, look development, lighting, rendering, compositing, and a new render every time the client wanted a variation. It also meant a large crew (modelers, texture artists, lighting artists, compositors) and a schedule measured in months. Neither the budget nor the holiday window supported that path.',
en: 'Groove Jones\u2019s Senior Creative Technologist, Doug Hogan, rebuilt the production process around Comfy\u2019s node-based workflow system, using their proprietary GrooveTech GenVFX pipeline. Custom LoRAs handled brand accuracy, a single Comfy graph orchestrated multiple generative models, and Nuke handled final polish. For a team with feature-film and commercial roots, the environment was immediately familiar.',
en: 'Comfy felt very similar to working inside a traditional CG and compositing pipeline. Node-based logic, clear data flow, modular builds. It felt natural to our artists already.',
en: 'Groove Jones trained custom LoRAs on the Crocs NFL Team Clogs and on Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods storefronts, so every generation came out anchored in brand-accurate references. Real team colorways, real product silhouettes, and real store exteriors stayed consistent across shots without per-frame correction, replacing what would normally take weeks of manual look development.',
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'Groove Jones 基于 Crocs NFL 球队联名鞋款和 Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods 门店外景训练了定制 LoRA,让每一次生成都能锚定品牌精准的参考素材。真实的球队配色、产品轮廓和门店外观在不同镜头之间保持一致,不需要逐帧修正——而这通常意味着数周的 look development 工作量。'
en: 'The creative required different generative models at different stages: Flux for key-frame still development, Gemini Flash 2.5 (Nano Banana) for fast ideation and variants, and Veo 3.1 plus Moonvalley\u2019s Marey for final video generation. Comfy routed between all four inside one graph, so outputs from one model fed directly into the next without ever leaving the environment.',
en: 'The Comfy community develops at an almost exponential curve, and we were able to leverage their existing nodes and tools to solve very specific production challenges instead of reinventing the wheel ourselves.',
en: 'The workflow opened with traditional storyboards for narrative approval, then moved into CGI blocking to lock composition, camera framing, and story beats. Comfy drove generation from there: the shoe drop, the parking lot reactions, the crowd coverage, and the environmental conversions that turned static summer storefronts into snow-covered holiday scenes, all inside the same graph.',
en: 'Every variant of every shot lived as a Comfy workflow file, which doubled as version control. When notes came in requesting a different team colorway, store exterior, or time of day, the team duplicated a branch instead of rebuilding, which made same-day iteration possible. GPU usage and API credit burn were trackable inside the same environment as the work itself, giving Production real-time visibility into compute cost per iteration.',
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'每个镜头的每个变体都以 Comfy 工作流文件的形式存在,文件本身就是版本管理。当客户反馈要求换一支球队配色、换一个门店外景或者换一个时间段时,团队只需复制一个分支,而不是重建——这才让"当天迭代"成为可能。GPU 使用量和 API 额度消耗也都能在同一个环境里追踪到,让制作部门实时看到每次迭代的算力成本。'
en: 'Generated shots moved into Nuke for final compositing: falling snow, camera shake, crowd ambience, holiday audio, and 2K mastering in 9:16 for Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts. Because Comfy handled generation cleanly, Nuke focused on polish and motion enhancement rather than patching generative artifacts.',
en: 'By building the FOOH pipeline inside Comfy, Groove Jones turned a brief that would have required an expensive live-action shoot plus months of CG into a fast, iterative, single-environment workflow the client could direct in real time. The project recently won the Aaron Award for Best AI Workflow for Production.',
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'通过在 Comfy 中搭建整套 FOOH 流水线,Groove Jones 把一个原本需要昂贵实地拍摄加数月 CG 制作的项目,变成了一套高速迭代、单一环境、客户可以实时指挥的工作流。该项目近期还荣获 Aaron Award 的"最佳 AI 制作工作流"奖。'
en: 'At Groove Jones, we care deeply about delivering work that makes people say WOW! But we also care about delivering on time and on budget. VFX projects used to operate at razor thin margins. Comfy solved that for us.',
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