There Are Ghosts at the “Haunted Sanctuary,” Constructed Using RTX and AI, creator Sabour Amirazodi creates eerily intricate Halloween displays for his house using ComfyUI and Adobe Firefly.
About Haunted Sanctuary
“Haunted Sanctuary” is the name of an episode of the TV show Sanctuary. In the episode, Magnus and her team rescue the crew and passengers of a sinking ship and bring them to the Sanctuary for medical treatment. After one of the refugees is murdered, Magnus is forced to use her stun gun on Druitt and lock him in a containment cell. However, a power surge locks all the doors in the Sanctuary.
Creator Sabour Amirazodi, a tech marketing and workflow expert at NVIDIA, is one of the artists using AI to improve and speed up their creative pursuits.
Using his more than two decades of multi-platform expertise in media production and location-based entertainment, he creates an amazing Halloween exhibit called the Haunted Sanctuary each year to adorn his house.
The project is a huge endeavor that calls on a variety of skills, including compositing, editing in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, projection mapping, and the development and assembly of 3D scenes. Amirazodi’s NVIDIA RTX 6000 GPU and the NVIDIA Studio content production platform were used to speed up the development process.
As part of the exhibit this year, Amirazodi used new AI procedures in ComfyUI, Adobe Firefly, and Photoshop to produce digital images that were influenced by his family.
Give ’em Pumpkin to Talk About
A node-based interface called Give ’em Pumpkin to Talk About uses text to create visuals and movies. Because of its great degree of customization, users may create processes, change parameters, and see results right away. To get further control, it may integrate several AI models and third-party extensions.
To assist eliminate any unwanted visual impacts, the procedure below, for instance, calls for supplying a prompt, the specifics and attributes of the intended picture, and a negative prompt.
Amirazodi began by using Run IP Adapters, which employ reference photos to guide created material since he wanted his digital creations to closely resemble his family.
He then adjusted the parameters to give each character the appearance and feel he wanted.
ComfyUI can produce visuals from prompts up to 60% quicker with to NVIDIA TensorRT acceleration.
In Darkness, Let There Be Light
The Adobe Firefly series of creative generative AI models supports creative processes and provides fresh approaches to ideation and creation. They were trained using NVIDIA GPUs on licensed material like Adobe Stock Images and public domain information whose copyright has expired to be safe for children commercial usage.
Amirazodi had to enlarge the backdrop in order to get the correct fit for the digital pictures.
By using the Crop tool to expand the picture’s border, artists may use Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill tool, Generative Expand, to automatically fill the empty area with information that complements the original image.
Additionally, Photoshop has “Neural Filters,” which save artists from hours of laborious, manual labor by enabling them to experiment with innovative concepts and make intricate picture alterations in a matter of seconds.
By using a slider, artists may effortlessly experiment with face features like lighting angles and gaze direction while using Smart Portrait Neural Filters. By modifying the colors, textures, depth blur, and facial expressions, Amirazodi used the tool to add the finishing touches to his photos.
NVIDIA RTX GPUs speed up Photoshop’s Neural Filters and support AI-based activities.
Tasks in content production, gaming, and daily living are already being accelerated and automated by AI, and these speedups are only increased with a machine that has an NVIDIA RTX or GeForce RTX GPU installed.
