Webtoon-generating AI company RyanRocket (CEO Seunghwan Jeong) announced that it was selected as a major company at the 'Spark.me Awards' hosted by Canon Marketing Japan Inc. for its outstanding AI technology. This is a great achievement that came as RyanRocket was steadily seeking to enter the Japanese market after discussing collaboration with several Japanese webtoon companies it met at 'JAPAN IT WEEK', Japan's largest IT trade show, last year. With this, RyanRocket has laid the foundation to expand its influence in the Japanese webtoon market in the second half of the year.
The 'Spark Me Award' is Canon Marketing Japan's startup acceleration program and a program for group employees. A 'promoter' with a designer's sense supports collaboration and business verification of each startup participating in the award as a co-founder, and during the acceleration period, a 'business development accelerator' with business creation expertise provides mentoring.
Ryan Rocket presented a generative AI service that draws four-panel cartoons for awards. It is a service that generates four-panel Instatoons in seconds by inputting the creator's existing drawings, desired image styles, and prompts. This service learns the creator's drawing style and implements high-quality characters with only 10 learning data, and Ryan Rocket's unique brain boosting learning method that fixes the characters and controls their movements was applied.
Among the 79 companies that attended the awards, 10 companies were selected through mini POCs, and 4 companies including Ryan Rocket were awarded the final prizes. Ryan Rocket is the only Korean company among them, and it received positive reviews for the fact that “even people who cannot draw can record their stories like a picture diary through Ryan Rocket’s Zenverse, and not only that, they can form empathy and create a community through the Instatoons they create.”
In addition, the organizers evaluated the unique technological prowess of RyanRocket Genverse, saying, “For images created with AI, copyright is the most important issue, but the results created using RyanRocket Genverse were highly praised by the judges for not having any copyright issues, allowing the award to be given to the only Korean company.”
Jeong Seung-hwan, CEO of Ryan Rocket, emphasized, “As the only Korean company to receive the Canon Marketing Japan Spark Me Award, this award means that Ryan Rocket’s unique brainboosting technology and copyright-free safety have been recognized.” He added, “Ryan Rocket believes in the positive power of creation, and we will use this award as an opportunity to further expand our influence in the Japanese webtoon market.”
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