Beyond the Still: A Complete Guide to Runway Gen-2 Image-to-Video and How It Transformed AI Cinema

When AI-generated images first exploded into the public consciousness, they offered a breathtaking paradox: they gave us windows into impossible worlds, yet those windows were permanently frozen. A photorealistic cyberpunk street at midnight, a surreal oil painting of a clock melting over a mountain, a cinematic portrait of an astronaut on Mars—they were all masterpieces of static art.

Then came Runway with Gen-2.