Toonsquare (CEO Hoyoung Lee) announced that it will participate in CES 2024, which will be held in Las Vegas, USA from Tuesday, January 9 to January 12, 2020 (local time) next year.
Toonsquare operates the ‘Tooning’ service, a web browser-based software as a service (SaaS) AI artificial intelligence webtoon creation platform. Toonsquare’s core AI technology optimized for digital creation is applied to Tooning, and currently includes three services: Tooning Editor, Tooning Magic AI (Beta), and Tooning World (Beta) (as of July 2023).
Tuning Editor is an AI-based content creation service that allows you to quickly and easily create digital content in various formats based on your own writing or stories. By using AI technologies optimized for content creation such as ‘Smart Character’, ‘Text to Toon AI’, and ‘Shot to Character AI’ provided by Tooning Editor, anyone who cannot draw can create storytelling content. The company explained that it did so.
In addition, Tuning Magic AI is a high-quality image creation service that allows anyone to use generative AI to create high-resolution images by clicking on the prompt needed to create an image within the service or directly inputting it.
Tooning World is a platform where you can experience Tooning’s original webtoon content and various webtoons, and share and post your own webtoons. Tuning World not only provides webtoons, taptoons, and webtoons created using AI, but also allows readers to share their own works.
Toonsquare said, “Stable diffusion is an image generation artificial intelligence model based on ‘emotion analysis’ and ‘morphological analysis’ technology in natural language analysis artificial intelligence (NLP: Natural Language processing), which is one of the company’s core technologies. ) and Chat GPT technology, he emphasized, “We can shorten the work time and improve the completeness of digital content not only in webtoons but also in the digital content production process.”
He continued, “Tooning applies Toonsquare’s AI-based automatic webtoon creation technology to the existing webtoon production process to create a low-cost, high-quality webtoon production environment, and lays the foundation for the general public to easily and quickly create daily toons and storyboards, thereby promoting webtoon creation. “We are contributing broadly not only to the field but also to the field of digital content creation,” he said. “Through this pipeline, users can purchase digital resources through Toning Editor and Magic AI’s subscription service and point purchase system, and preview webtoons or taptoons within Toning World.” He expressed his expectations, saying, “It is expected that monetization will be possible through the provision of view purchase services.”
In the future, Toonsquare aims to launch the web browser-based ‘Tooning Magic AI’ (SaaS) in beta not only in Korea but also in global regions, mainly in the United States, and to enter the global market starting with North America. He also expressed his ambition to provide services that can be applied to various fields, including film and animation, and to foster prospective creators, planners, and producers.
Meanwhile, ‘CES’, the world’s largest IT exhibition hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), is an exhibition where you can see the flow of innovative technologies around the world at a glance and is held every January in Las Vegas, USA. AVING News, which has covered CES for 18 consecutive years, has reported CES news around the world every year since 2006, and has been selected through ‘BEST OF CES’ and ‘BEST OF MADE IN KOREA’, which select the best innovative products, companies and technologies. has been in progress. In addition, CES on-site issues are vividly conveyed through ‘AVING LIVE’.
The CES 2024 Seoul Unified Hall will be operated at the largest scale in terms of exhibition area, number of participating companies, and number of participating supporters since Seoul City’s first participation in CES in 2020. The Seoul Integration Center, in which 13 organizations collaborate and participate, is an important step in Seoul’s efforts to make Seoul a mecca for startups, and 17 of the companies participating in the Seoul Integration Center proved this by receiving innovation awards. The participating institutions in the Seoul Unification Center are ▲SBA ▲Seoul Bio Hub ▲Campus Town ▲AI Yangjae Hub ▲Gwanak-gu ▲Yonsei University ▲Korea University ▲Chung-Ang University ▲Sogang University ▲Kookmin University ▲Hanyang University ▲Konkuk University ▲Kyunghee University. Not only the Seoul Metropolitan Government, institutions, and companies, but also supporters through industry-academia cooperation are matched 1:1 with companies, and 85 supporters, the largest number, will participate.
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