# kijai/ComfyUI-LivePortraitKJ

ComfyUI nodes for LivePortrait

Repository: https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-LivePortraitKJ
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/comfyui-liveportraitkj
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-08-05T21:39:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 56
- inputs: {"age_days": 790, "days_push": 758, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2200, forks 176 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:25.562513+00:00)

## What it is
ComfyUI custom nodes that integrate the LivePortrait face animation and retargeting model, supporting image-to-video, video-to-video, and near-realtime webcam driving. It offers alternative face detectors (MediaPipe, face-alignment) and ships models as safetensors with automatic download.

## Use cases
- animate a portrait photo with a driving video
- retarget facial expressions from one video to another
- run realtime face animation from a webcam feed
- build ComfyUI workflows for talking-head video generation
- swap face detectors for better small-face detection
- avoid non-commercial Insightface license by using MediaPipe

## When to choose
- you already use ComfyUI and want LivePortrait as nodes
- you need realtime or near-realtime portrait animation pipelines
- you need MIT/Apache-licensed face detection via MediaPipe
- you want vid2vid retargeting with smoothing

## When to avoid
- you need a standalone CLI or app outside ComfyUI
- you require commercial use with Insightface detection
- you need production-stable workflows across version upgrades (breaking changes occurred)

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, image-processing, machine-learning, computer-vision, plugin-system
- domain: image-processing, artificial-intelligence, computer-vision, media
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: comfyui, liveportrait, face-animation, face-retargeting, talking-head, webcam, safetensors, custom-nodes, video, gpu

## Member repositories
- kijai/ComfyUI-LivePortraitKJ (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:25.562513+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:47:05.330833+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-LivePortraitKJ (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:25.562513+00:00, sha f9440f1e8680)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.