AI has become the compass of this era and has had a profound impact on the lives of each and every one of us. With its unique creativity, AIGC has brought many new possibilities to the fields of advertising and marketing, game creation, and art design.
As a leading enterprise in the computer hardware industry, ZOTAC continues to pursue in-depth integration with AI technology, and has the courage to open up new paths and development opportunities. In order to celebrate the upcoming New Year of the Dragon and to celebrate the upcoming launch of NVIDIA's SUPER series graphics cards, ZOTAC specially launched the "ZOTAC IP Image AI Creation Competition" with Toast tusiart.com an advanced AI art platform in China.
1. Introduction of ZOTAC SUPER new products
The RTX 40 series SUPER graphics cards brought to you this time include RTX 4080 SUPER, RTX 4070Ti SUPER, and RTX 4070 SUPER.
GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series graphics cards are at the heart of AI PCs, powering the latest games. Powered by the efficient NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, it delivers smoother ray tracing with accelerated ray tracing and AI-powered graphics, AI-accelerated performance with DLSS 3, new creative possibilities, and more.
The new GeForce RTX SUPER GPUs are the best way to experience AI on PC. Dedicated AI Tensor Cores deliver up to 836 AI TOPS, as well as up to 52 SHADER TFLOPS, 121 RT TFLOPS, and 836 AI TOPS to enhance gaming and creative capabilities, and power the development of new entertainment worlds and experiences. Revolutionary AI performance for gaming, creation, and daily work. Rich software acceleration libraries built on RTX GPUs further enhance AI performance. SUPER performance, right away.
2. Introduction to the toast AI platform
AI painting technology has become an important fulcrum of the modern creative industry, and many of the commercial illustrations, art creations, character designs and other works we see every day are likely to be equipped with AI skills of intelligent creativity, and have begun to become an emerging means of monetization.
Toast (TusiArt.com) is a domestic AI model sharing community and online running platform. At present, more than 300,000 partners have chosen to use toast, thousands of excellent model artists have settled in and released tens of thousands of high-quality models, and more than 50 million pictures have been generated, and through the incentives and subsidies of creators in the first echelon of the industry, leading the healthy and sustainable development of AI creators.
In order to promote the development of AI in the field of art and design, ZOTAC and Toast tusiart.com jointly launched the "ZOTAC IP Image AI Creation Competition". Contestants will use the online AI running platform provided by tusiart to create a new brand image spokesperson "Aso" model, as well as creative drawing based on ZOTAC's IP images "Apocalypse" and "Lida", and ZOTAC will prepare a wealth of hardware gifts for creators to help them accelerate their creative journey.
3. Theme of the event
1. This event presets a big event theme [AI graphics card spokesperson], and then divides it into two different tracks: model and drawing, and each track has an activity TAG.
2. When the author participates in the event, he or she needs to bring the TAG of the theme of the event and the activity tag of the track he participates in to accurately distinguish the track.
3. Event slogo: super superpower, draw a new flower young, sub-standard: ZOTAC graphics card AI creation competition
Fourth, the activity time
Call for Papers: January 18 - February 23
Judging stage: February 24 - February 28
Announcement: March 1
5. Form of activity
1. Model Competition:
ZOTAC solicits the majority of creators to jointly create a new brand image spokesperson "Aso" for ZOTAC, and the creators can use their imagination to create and submit models according to the positioning of the "Aso" character image. "Aso" character positioning: male, 20+ years old, extroverted, sunny. Model activity track tag [ZOTAC AI image design].
Introduction: https://tusiart.com/blackboard/zotac
On the homepage of the website, click Upload My Model and create a project:
On the model upload page, edit and bring the activity tag
2. Drawing competition
Creative drawing based on ZOTAC's IP images "Apocalypse" and "Lida", no subject matter (reference direction: Spring Festival, daily, 24 solar terms, etc.), no form (2D/3D are acceptable), but some characteristics of the original IP characters need to be maintained.
Apocalypse Ji features: long white hair, bangs, blue eyes, beautiful girl, sunny and cheerful.
Lida's characteristics: Pink partial short hair, pink eyes, royal sister, sassy, sci-fi style.
Drawing Activity Track Tag [ZOTAC AI Graphics Card Battle Angel]
【Picture Submission】Click on the workbench, after generating a picture, select the picture and click Post, and then select the activity tag#ZOTAC Graphics Card Battle Angel, and publish it
6. Prizes
1. Model track:
First place: ZOTAC RTX 4080SUPER graphics card + ZOTAC AI Pioneer Modeler Trophy
Second place: One piece of ZOTAC RTX 4070SUPER graphics card
Third place: ZOTAC RTX 4060 Ti 8GB graphics card
Fourth/fifth place: ZOTAC Apocalypse Ji limited custom mechanical keyboard
Outstanding Submission Reward (10 winners): ZOTAC New Year Gift Package
2. Drawing track:
First place: ZOTAC RTX 4080SUPER graphics card + ZOTAC AI Intelligent Painting Pioneer Artist Trophy
Second place: One piece of ZOTAC RTX 4070SUPER graphics card
Third place: ZOTAC RTX 4060 Ti 8GB graphics card
Fourth/fifth place: ZOTAC Apocalypse Ji limited custom mechanical keyboard
Popularity Award (10 winners): ZOTAC New Year Gift Package
3. Special Rewards:
1. "Out of the Circle Ambassador Award", according to the number of content broadcasts + likes + number of new users, etc., a copy of ZOTAC's top products will be given based on comprehensive evaluation.
2. The first creator of the model track will become the "ZOTAC AI Pioneer Modeler", and ZOTAC will be able to carry out the production and promotion of subsequent IP images.
5. The top five in the drawing track and model track will become the "Excellent Creator of ZOTAC AI" of the ZOTAC brand. Creators can reach a long-term cooperation intention with ZOTAC, and then carry out a second cooperation to do joint co-creation or joint content (such as: video, graphics, etc.).
6. All award-winning works will be signed by the author (marked as from the toast creator), and use ZOTAC's official self-media platform and cooperative media platform and other resources to promote and publicize.
7. Selection Rules
1. Model track shortlisted selection:
Criteria: The top 50% of creators in terms of the number of runners and posters (after deduplication) will be shortlisted and given 1,000 computing power
2. Shortlisted for the selection of the Shengtu track:
Entry criteria: Creators with >5 likes on their works will be shortlisted and will receive 500 computing power
3. Selection criteria for the double track after being shortlisted
Out of the circle (30%): The number of social media likes, playbacks, and invitations will be converted into scores according to the gear (the gear score is to be determined)
Model quality (20%): The quality of the model is stable, the generalization is good, and the ability to distinguish prompt words is strong
Creativity (30%)
Theme fit (20%)
8. Judges of the competition
1. Tusi will recommend the judges for this competition, and the final judges will be confirmed after we discuss and confirm. Mai Tang, Xiao Li, Toast CEO, Suo Tai Fang, Autumn Leaves, GenJi is really trying to teach you, Geek Bay Piaoge, Potato Man
2. Judge of the Popularity Award Student Picture: Brother Extraordinary (recording video + launching a Douyin challenge + emoji classic character second creation, etc.)
3. The judges of the Model Popularity Award The Xiami Model King, the judges, Tusi, and Zotac made the final selection of the entries on the works.