A READING PATH / 2025–2026
Move from the source record to a production decision. 4 researched reads across two subject years.
2025 SUBJECT / Craft & workflow
Runway’s Act-Two documentation makes the input performance central. A production needs to make that input traceable before it becomes character animation.
Reader question: What must a small production document when a driving performance is transferred to a character?
Read the evidence ↗2025 SUBJECT / Craft & workflow
Wan2.1 FLF2V made start and end frames explicit in 2025. The craft question is what the two images establish—and what they leave unresolved between them.
Reader question: How can an editor prepare a first-to-last-frame generation brief that survives a cut?
Read the evidence ↗2025 SUBJECT / Craft & workflow
Adobe’s 2025 Firefly Boards launch put collaboration and generation on one canvas. For filmmakers, the board becomes useful when it can be turned into a real brief.
Reader question: How can a generative mood board become accountable previsualization rather than an untraceable pile of images?
Read the evidence ↗2026 SUBJECT / Craft & workflow
Premiere's 2026 masking updates change the cost of a roto pass, not the responsibility for deciding whether a tracked edge tells the story cleanly.
Reader question: How should an editor review AI-assisted masks before using them for a grade, relight, blur, or compositing handoff?
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