Technology is advancing at a pace that outstrips our dreams, with rapid and ceaseless innovation. While many are still in the early stages of recognizing the potential of AI applications, artificial intelligence has already quietly permeated every aspect of our lives. Particularly in recent years, AI's influence in the fields of education and creative design has become increasingly prominent. On July 24, 2024, a ceremony marking the completion of the "RTX AI Creation Acceleration Experience Zone," co-hosted by the well-known hardware brand Colorful, the global leader in accelerated computing NVIDIA, and the CG vocational education brand Mars Era Education, was successfully held at the Beijing headquarters of Mars Era Education. This innovative and forward-looking initiative not only signifies a solid step for AIGC technology in the fields of education and CG but also seems to herald the arrival of a new era where AI and design creative education are seamlessly integrated.

In this era of rapidly evolving artificial intelligence (AI), NVIDIA GeForce RTX and NVIDIA RTX GPUs have become industry leaders with their exceptional performance and AI-specific design features. Today, RTX GPUs are not only the top choice for gamers but also a significant driving force for AI applications across various industry sectors.

The consumer-grade RTX GPU architecture has evolved from Turing to the current Ada Lovelace, with NVIDIA investing years of research and optimization to provide robust hardware support for graphics rendering, parallel computing, and AI acceleration. It is particularly noteworthy that since their introduction, RTX GPUs have featured dedicated Tensor Core AI processors, which have been continuously optimized and are now in their fourth generation. The innovative design of the built-in Tensor Core has significantly enhanced the execution efficiency of AI-related tasks, whether it's achieving real-time ray tracing in realistic game graphics, providing rapid 3D modeling and rendering in content creation, or assisting in complex data analysis in daily work, RTX GPUs deliver outstanding performance.

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Furthermore, RTX GPUs offer powerful local computing power for AI experiences in gaming, creative work, and daily tasks. The top consumer products currently boast AI local computing power of up to 1177 TOPS (trillions of operations per second). This level of computing power means that complex AI algorithms and models can be processed more quickly and efficiently, thereby providing users with a smoother and richer experience.

Currently, over 500 applications and games on the market have been accelerated by RTX technology, and this number continues to grow. This fully demonstrates the widespread application and high recognition of RTX technology within the industry. Whether enjoying the convenience brought by AI computing acceleration in existing applications or exploring more possibilities of AI in the future, RTX PCs equipped with RTX GPUs will become indispensable and powerful application assistants for users.

At the official completion ceremony of the "RTX AI Creation Acceleration Experience Zone," a series of exciting AI applications centered around the RTX GPU attracted much attention. Among them, the demonstration of RTX AI creation acceleration technology was particularly eye-catching. This was not only a showcase of technology but also an exploration of the potential future of AI creation. At the same time, Colorful also introduced its mature and brand-new RTX AI PC products to the attendees at the ceremony. These new products, with their powerful performance and innovative design, received unanimous praise from the guests present.

The close cooperation between NVIDIA, Colorful, and Mars Era Education was also a highlight of this event. Together, they explored the auxiliary and acceleration roles of AI technology in the design workflow. By providing high-end hardware products such as the Jiangxing X17 Pro Max laptop equipped with a high-performance GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, they offered strong technical support for the teachers and students of Mars Era Education. On-site, teachers from Mars Era Education demonstrated the perfect integration of AI creation tools like Stable Diffusion Web UI/ComfyUI, NVIDIA Canvas, Blender, and these high-end hardware, fully showcasing the tremendous potential and practical application value of AI technology in the field of design creation.

Not only did Colorful provide high-performance AI PC products based on RTX GPUs for the experience zone, but NVIDIA and Mars Era Education also provided professional technical support and guidance for the participants on-site. With the support of this underlying software and hardware technology, participants were able to gain a deeper understanding of the application of AI in design creation and personally experience the efficiency and convenience brought by RTX AI creation acceleration technology.

Deep Integration of AI and Education

The Three Parties Join Hands to Launch New Creation and Education Models in the AI EraMars Era Education's AI Design Education Director, Mr. Wu Dajie, addressed the conference. In today's rapidly developing technology, the widespread popularization and application of AI technology are gradually changing the traditional education model. The introduction of AI not only provides personalized learning paths and significantly improves teaching efficiency but also stimulates students' creativity and cultivates their spirit of exploration. As the core organizer of this event and a leader in the CG education industry, Mars Era Education has been actively exploring the deep integration of AI technology with education and the design industry.

Mars Era Education has keenly captured the development trend of AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) and has been brave in innovation, fully integrating AI technology into the design of CG courses, covering key CG skills such as "AI+Graphic Design," "AI+Original Painting Design," "AI+3D Modeling," and "AI+Short Video," leading the industry in training versatile CG+AI design talents in the AI era. This has not only greatly improved the efficiency of talent cultivation but also made students' works more innovative and diverse than ever before. It is understood that the involvement of AI drawing software can greatly enhance the content creation efficiency of traditional film/TV/game/commercial illustration, and Mars Era has accelerated the overall teaching process of 2D design direction content by 70% after integrating cross-disciplinary content horizontally in the teaching link.

In addition to hardware and technology support, NVIDIA and Colorful have been exploring with Mars Era Education how to use technology to speed up learning and creative efficiency from an early stage. Mars Era began to explore the auxiliary role of AI software in the design workflow in 2022 and took the lead in introducing NVIDIA Studio AI applications in its film and television professional pilot teaching. At the end of 2022, Mars Era officially became a NVIDIA Studio ecosystem partner in China, relying on the creative space for creative design built together with Colorful designer hosts, which was established at the Beijing campus of Mars Era. The three parties also launched the "AI Design Commercialization Compulsory Public Course" at the end of 2023, combining practical case calculations and power evaluations to popularize AIGC creation knowledge for the public and help accelerate creativity.

Ms. Cao Mengqi, the NVIDIA Studio ecosystem cooperation manager, addressed the audience at the opening ceremony of the "RTX AI Creation Acceleration Experience Area." She told the audience about the huge advantages of RTX GPU in AI applications and its powerful acceleration performance. Currently, RTX AI has been widely applied in painting, graphic design, video editing, 3D rendering, and gaming, among other fields. With the support of RTX AI, users can fully leverage the potential of AI on Windows PCs, both now and in the future.

Mr. Chen Chudong, the product manager of the mobile system division of the Colorful Group, explained to the participants at the meeting the new generation of Colorful AI PC all-in-one laptop computer series—"Source" products. The Colorful Source series notebook, equipped with the highest GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, will have strong AI creation acceleration performance and also have a good gaming performance. It is particularly worth mentioning that Colorful has configured an artificial intelligence assistant called "Hongguang AI" on the all-in-one AI PC, which can help users complete intelligent dialogues, AI work processing, and AI creative application functions. It is not only very convenient but also one of the core elements of the all-in-one AI PC.

Ms. Cao Mengqi from NVIDIA, Mr. Wu Dajie from Mars Era Education, and Mr. Chen Chudong from Colorful jointly conducted the unveiling ceremony of the "RTX AI Creation Acceleration Experience Area." The establishment of the "RTX AI Creation Acceleration Experience Area" can be regarded as another important milestone in the exploration of AI education integration. The experience area at the meeting gathers the most cutting-edge NVIDIA AI technology and high-performance Colorful RTX AI PC hardware, while integrating the professional educational resources of Mars Era, building an ideal platform for future artists and creators to study and practice technology. Participants can deeply feel the huge potential and value of AI in the creative process through personal experience with RTX AI creation acceleration technology, thereby stimulating more creative inspiration. At the same time, with the support of Colorful's powerful RTX AI PC hardware products, creators can feel a more enjoyable creative experience.AI Reshaping the Ecosystem in Design and Creative Fields

The field of design and creative work has always been one of the significant application scenarios for AI technology. From the initial auxiliary design tools to today's intelligent systems capable of independently completing complex creative tasks, the application of AI in the design and creative field continues to deepen, bringing unprecedented changes and opportunities to the entire industry.

As a global leader in graphics processing solutions, NVIDIA's RTX GPU technology provides strong technical support for the application of AI in the field of design and creative work. Its AI Tensor Core significantly enhances local AI computing power, enabling design and creative software to achieve real-time rendering, upscaling, and light reconstruction, and other advanced functions, thereby greatly improving the efficiency and quality of creation.

In the "RTX AI Creative Acceleration Experience Area," a series of cutting-edge creative tools such as NVIDIA Canvas, Stable Diffusion Web UI, ComfyUI, and Blender, equipped on Colorful AI PCs, were fully demonstrated. These tools not only represent the current highest technical level in the field of AI creation but also showcase the extensive application and tremendous potential of AI in design and creative work through practical examples to participants.

Ms. Cao Mengqi from NVIDIA demonstrated the "AI Superhero Photo" application based on Stable Diffusion ComfyUI on the "iGame Ultra Family AI PC" equipped with a GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card. Users only need to take a photo of themselves with a camera, and the SD ComfyUI workflow can automatically generate a superhero photo with your own facial features. With the strong hardware performance of the Colorful iGame Ultra Family AI PC, the overall AI calculation process is very smooth, and it only takes a few seconds to get your own "superhero image."

Teachers and students from the Mars Era Education Institution and attendees experienced NVIDIA Canvas on the Colorful Yuan N14 all-in-one AI PC. The AI drawing technology based on Canvas is very user-friendly. With the strong support of the RTX GPU, Yuan N14 can instantly transform simple strokes into vivid landscape images. This process not only stimulates the enthusiasm for background creation but also provides infinite possibilities in concept exploration and creative inspiration.

Teachers and students from Mars Era Education used the Stable Diffusion WebUI/ComfyUI technology to quickly generate a workflow for dynamic capture CG on-site. In this workflow, users capture a series of facial expression videos through a camera, and through the Stable Diffusion ComfyUI workflow, the captured user expressions are dynamically imported into static CG, finally generating dynamic CG images. This innovative application not only demonstrates the tremendous potential of AI in design and creative work but also brings significant changes and convenience to the entire CG creation industry. At the same time, AI technology can also achieve style transformation, easily converting 2D works into 3D content, providing more creative choices and possibilities for creators in different fields. In similar workflows, the RTX GPU, especially NVIDIA TensorRT's super acceleration effect on Stable Diffusion, still plays a significant role. Compared with traditional acceleration methods such as ONNX, the combination of TensorRT extensions can increase the work efficiency of the RTX GPU by several or even dozens of times.Additionally, teachers from Mars Era Education, including Wu Dajie, explained on-site how RTX GPUs provide real-time collaborative rendering capabilities in 3D creative applications such as Stable Diffusion, Adobe Substance, Adobe Painter, and Blender. This significantly enhances the smoothness of the creative process and the realism of the works. In 3D software like Blender, the integration of AI drawing in creative work can greatly save designers' creative time. The introduction of these features, supported by the high-performance hardware products of Colorful AI PCs powered by NVIDIA RTX GPUs, enables designers to create high-quality works more efficiently, thus promoting the progress and development of the entire design and creative field.

High-Performance Hardware Foundation

Colorful AI PC Boosts RTX AI Creative Ecosystem

At this event, one of the organizers, Colorful, played a crucial role as an AI PC hardware supplier. NVIDIA, with its strong technical strength and deep industry experience, has provided high-performance GPU solutions and advanced AI technical support for the design and creative field. Colorful, on the other hand, has provided strong hardware support and assurance for AI creation with its rich product line and excellent R&D capabilities.

In the early stages of AI application development, Colorful proposed the concept of "Master AI, Unleash Creativity" for the AIGC field and actively responded to this concept by launching a series of iGame RTX AI PC products that integrate unique aesthetic design and innovative technical ideas. These products not only carry high-performance NVIDIA RTX GPUs but also have strong AI computing performance, providing users with an unprecedented creative experience. In the "RTX AI Creative Acceleration Experience Area," Colorful showcased its iGame Ultra family series PCs equipped with the latest Intel Core i7-14700KF processor and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card. These high-aesthetic, powerful hardware products received rounds of applause from the attendees.

Colorful set up three "good-looking and powerful" iGame Ultra family AI PC systems on-site. All three machines are equipped with the iGame GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Ultra W 0C 16GB graphics card, with a computing power of up to 836 TOPS, making them adept in various AI application demonstrations on-site, even achieving "instant image generation" in the Stable Diffusion WEB UI/ComfyUI demonstrations. The overall pop art style of the Ultra family, with its eye-catching assembly effect (quietly saying, the actual product is even nicer than the photos).

In addition to the three iGame Ultra Family AI PCs based on the GeForce RTX 40 SUPER series, there are also three Colorful all-in-one laptops with high-performance RTX GPUs in the experience area. The most eye-catching is the new product, the Colorful Yuan N14 all-in-one laptop AI PC, equipped with the RTX 4070 Laptop GPU. This laptop is comprehensive and powerful, perfectly meeting the high demands of various creators for mobile work tools. Whether it's designers, programmers, or video editors, the Yuan N14 can assist them in easily handling various complex tasks with its excellent AI computing and graphics processing capabilities. The support for real-time ray tracing and DLSS technology further astonishes the AI graphics rendering effects, significantly enhancing the quality of the works. With its outstanding performance, it undoubtedly has the potential to become the ideal mobile productivity tool for creators.Additionally, the other two models are the well-known Colorful "Jiangxing" series high-performance laptops, namely the Jiangxing X17 Pro Max and X16 Pro. They are equipped with top-tier GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4070 laptop graphics cards, respectively, showcasing formidable computational power. At the event, they smoothly ran creative software such as SD image rendering, SD+Photoshop, NVIDIA Canvas, and Jianying, highlighting their exceptional performance in graphic rendering and video editing. This not only provided the audience with an innovative operational experience but also demonstrated the outstanding performance of these two laptops in the field of creative work.

The Integration of AI and Traditional Design Creation

Boundless Possibilities and Challenges Coexist

From the perspective of the entire event, the successful establishment of the "RTX AI Creation Acceleration Experience Area" is not only an important cooperation achievement display between NVIDIA and Colorful in the field of AI and education integration but also a significant milestone in the deep integration of AI and design creation. It signifies that AI technology is gradually permeating every aspect of design creation, bringing more creative inspiration and possibilities to designers.

We have reason to believe that the integration of AI and design creation will reach new heights. As technology providers and hardware suppliers, NVIDIA and Colorful will continue to delve into the field of AI technology, launching more high-performance GPU solutions and innovative AI PC hardware products. They will provide comprehensive and efficient technical support and service guarantees for the field of design creation. In the future, they will also actively work with educational institutions, designer teams, and other partners to jointly promote the integrated development of AI and design creation to new heights.

With the continuous development and popularization of AI technology, the field of design creation will usher in broader development space and infinite possibilities. RTX AI technology will continue to drive innovation and progress in the field of design creation, providing designers with more creative tools and methods. At the same time, RTX AI technology will also change the way designers work and think, leading design creation to a new level. Even touching a future without RTX is not impossible.

However, the integration of AI and design creation also faces some challenges and issues. First, with the widespread application of AI technology, designers need to continuously learn and master these technologies to adapt to the new creative environment. How to enable more users to quickly get started with AI applications and integrate them into their daily work and life is a key point that upstream and downstream hardware and software manufacturers need to consider and collaborate on. Second, the rapid development of AI technology has also brought an increasing rigid demand for AI computing acceleration performance of hardware. This requires the joint efforts of many IT hardware manufacturers upstream and downstream, including NVIDIA and Colorful, to continuously advance on the path of improving hardware AI computing acceleration capabilities and compatibility.

NVIDIA, Colorful, and Huoxing Times Education have started something this time, and of course, we hope to see more similar cases in the future that truly implement AI PCs in practical applications. Only in this way can we work together to build a beautiful future for the new era of RTX AI creation!