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RunwayML releases Act One: obsoleting traditional motion capture


At Runway, our mission is to build expressive and controllable tools for artists that can open new avenues for creative expression. Today, we're excited to release Act-One, a new state-of-the-art tool for generating expressive character performances inside Gen-3 Alpha.

The model preserves realistic facial expressions and accurately translates performances into characters with proportions different from the original source video. Live Action The model also excels in producing cinematic and realistic outputs, and is remarkably robust across camera angles while maintaining high-fidelity face animations. A multi-cam dialogue scene edited together using a single actor and camera set-up to drive the performance of two unique generated characters.

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