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How Runway generated this entire neighborhood without actors

Runway built this entire cinematic neighborhood without a camera crew or a single actor. Every face, storefront, and sunbeam in these shots was generated from prompts and current tooling.

It is one of the cleanest looks yet at how close AI-generated cinema is getting to indistinguishable from real footage.

Made by u/TFenrir. This write-up follows the original post; it is not an independent product test.

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