# Runway — Bringing Runway Characters to SIGGRAPH's Biggest Stage

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2026-07-31T20:25:07.805000+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://runway.com/news/company-news/runway-characters-siggraph-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7862-bringing-runway-characters-to-siggraph-s-biggest-stage
- Subject: Gen / Aleph

Runway presented its Characters feature at SIGGRAPH 2026, where it was accepted into the Real-Time Live! session. The system generates real-time, frame-by-frame responses from a single image of any subject without fine-tuning. The team discussed the technical challenges of achieving low latency and the positive reception from the research community.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://runway.com/news/company-news/runway-characters-siggraph-2026:

> This year, Characters was accepted into Real-Time Live! , the conference’s highly-anticipated session where teams have 6 minutes to demo their work live in front of thousands and are judged by a jury of computer graphics and real-time technology experts.

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