Device · Machine
Runway
Generative video and image models. The motion end of Visual Reference Prompting, and the competition Burlap came out of.
Runway is a generative video and image studio, the motion end of Visual Reference Prompting. Maker: Runway AI, Inc. runwayml.com
Burlap connects to Runway. I entered Runway’s 48-hour film competition in the spring of 2025, and Burlap came out of that.
The toolchain was just unworkable, just completely unworked for anything I wanted to do or how I thought a professional workspace should be.
Sarth Calhoun, on where Burlap came from
The creditSarth Calhoun and Runway: Burlap, his app, connects to Runway’s models alongside OpenAI, Google and ByteDance; he entered Runway’s 48-hour film competition in spring 2025 and started Burlap after it.
Conspiracies
Burlap, Visual Reference Prompting, and the Third Wall Studio films made in Burlap.
My thoughts
The entry is the one that stood on the Devices page. The quotation is mine, from the Burlap page.