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NVIDIA RTX GPUs have helped accelerate the creation of Sabour Amirazodi's Haunted Sanctuary installation, allowing for the integration of AI in enhancing his artwork. ComfyUI, Adobe Firefly, and Photoshop were utilized to generate digital portraits inspired by Amirazodi's family as part of the installation. The project highlights the potential of NVIDIA technology in accelerating tasks in content creation and demonstrates how AI is being used in this field.
Sabour Amirazodi, a creator and tech marketing specialist at NVIDIA, created an incredible Halloween installation called "Haunted Sanctuary" using AI workflows in ComfyUI, Adobe Firefly, and Photoshop. The project utilized projection mapping, 3D scene creation, and compositing with Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro to accelerate the creation process, thanks to NVIDIA Studio and RTX GPU. ComfyUI was used for AI-generated digital portraits, allowing Amirazodi to design workflows, adjust settings, and see results immediately with NVIDIA TensorRT acceleration. Adobe Firefly's generative AI models assisted with ideation and creation in the project, while Photoshop's Generative Fill tool expanded backgrounds and Neural Filters enabled quick adjustments to images.
Sabour Amirazodi, a creator and tech marketing and workflow specialist at NVIDIA, has been utilizing his over 20 years of multi-platform experience in location-based entertainment and media production to create an incredible Halloween installation dubbed the "Haunted Sanctuary." This year, Amirazodi employed new AI workflows in ComfyUI, Adobe Firefly, and Photoshop to generate digital portraits — inspired by his family — as part of the installation.
The project was a massive undertaking requiring projection mapping, the creation and assembly of 3D scenes, compositing and editing in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, and more. To accelerate the creation process, Amirazodi utilized the NVIDIA Studio content creation platform and his NVIDIA RTX 6000 GPU.
ComfyUI is a node-based interface that generates images and videos from text, designed to be highly customizable allowing users to design workflows, adjust settings, and see results immediately. ComfyUI can combine various AI models and third-party extensions to achieve a higher degree of control. Amirazodi applied Run IP Adapters, which use reference images to inform generated content, starting with his digital creations.
Amirazodi tinkered with the settings to achieve the desired look and feel of each character. ComfyUI has NVIDIA TensorRT acceleration, so RTX users can generate images from prompts up to 60% faster.
Adobe Firefly is a family of creative generative AI models that offer new ways to ideate and create while assisting creative workflows. They are designed to be safe for commercial use and were trained using NVIDIA GPUs on licensed content like Adobe Stock Images and public domain content where copyright has expired.
To make the digital portraits fit as desired, Amirazodi needed to expand the background. Adobe Photoshop features a Generative Fill tool called Generative Expand that allows artists to extend the border of their image with the Crop tool and automatically fill the space with content that matches the existing image.
Photoshop also features “Neural Filters” that allow artists to explore creative ideas and make complex adjustments to images in just seconds, saving them hours of tedious manual work.
Amirazodi used the Smart Portrait Neural Filter to apply the final touches to his portraits, adjusting colors, textures, depth blur, and facial expressions by dragging a slider. NVIDIA RTX GPUs help power AI-based tasks, accelerating the Neural Filters in Photoshop.
This year's Haunted Sanctuary installation showcases the speedups from an NVIDIA RTX- or GeForce RTX GPU-equipped system and demonstrates how AI is already helping accelerate and automate tasks across content creation, gaming, and everyday life.
The article has been categorized under Pro Graphics with the title '3D | AI Decoded | Art | Artificial Intelligence | Creators | In the NVIDIA Studio | NVIDIA Studio | Rendering'.
Related Information:
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-studio-comfyui-adobe-firefly-photoshop/
https://www.wisconsinfrights.com/spooks-on-spurr/
Published: Wed Oct 30 10:39:21 2024 by llama3.2 3B Q4_K_M
