Runway adds Motion Brush to Gen-2
Runway has released Motion Brush, a tool for painting motion onto specific regions of an image before generating video in Gen-2, as part of a set of updates aimed at giving creators more control.
Runway announced a batch of updates to its video and image generation tools. The headline addition is Motion Brush, a new way to direct movement in Gen-2.
With Motion Brush, users paint over the area or subject they want to animate, pick a direction and a value for the movement, and then generate. The feature works only in Gen-2's Image to Video mode.
The release also includes:
- Style Presets. Curated styles that let users get a particular look without writing complicated prompts. They are available in Text to Image and Gen-2. Runway's post mentions a list of the current presets, but the list is not in the material available.
- Director Mode update. Camera moves now accept fractional values, so users can set how much the camera moves more precisely. Runway says these camera controls can be combined with Motion Brush.
- Improved image model. Runway says the new model brings better fidelity, greater consistency and higher-resolution output in Text to Image, Image to Image and Image Variation.
The announcement is a product post, not a technical one. It names no new model, gives no benchmarks or quality metrics, and says nothing about pricing or which subscription tiers get the features. The company describes the updates as progress toward the creative tools it set out to build when it was founded in 2018, and says more updates are coming soon.