EngineeringAI-LAB/CineBoard3D-plus

🎬 CineBoard3D++: Dynamic 3D Story World Dataset

📊 Dataset Summary

CineBoard3D++ is a collection of editable, movie-inspired 3D story worlds built with StoryBlender for narrative-grounded camera planning and world visual attention. It brings together story scripts, animated characters, scene geometry, and shot-level configurations in native Blender projects.

The benchmark covers 50 stories, 457 scenes, 1,585 shots, and 3,197 3D assets (836 plot-related and 2,361 supplementary assets). It supports evaluation of subject perception, intent consistency, and trajectory quality.

This dataset accompanies the paper “Look-Before-Move: Narrative-Grounded World Visual Attention in Dynamic 3D Story Worlds.”

📄 Paper

Title: Look-Before-Move: Narrative-Grounded World Visual Attention in Dynamic 3D Story Worlds

Authors: Jiaming Bian, Bingliang Li, Yuehao Wu, Pichao Wang, Zhi Wang, Hailan Ma, Huadong Mo†, Zhenhong Sun†

(†: Co-corresponding author)

Overview: Look-Before-Move treats the camera as an active observer: it determines what the narrative requires it to see before planning movement. A Semantic Observation Contract specifies visual requirements, Monte Carlo Viewpoint Search selects feasible viewpoints, and Semantic Trajectory Grounding connects them into coherent, collision-aware camera motion.

🔗 Project Page

• 🌐 Project: Look-Before-Move
• 📜 arXiv: 2606.26964
• 📑 PDF: Read the paper
• 💻 Code: EngineeringAI-LAB/Look-Before-Move

📁 Dataset Structure

Each story is packaged as a single archive under stories/, such as 12 Years a Slave.tar, A Beautiful Mind.tar, and The Godfather.tar. Story packages contain:

• 🎞️ Blender projects (.blend) with editable scenes and character animations.
• 📝 Story scripts and JSON metadata describing assets, layouts, scenes, and shots.
• 🧩 Project resources, including 3D models, textures, and animation assets.

The story index lists archive paths, project entry files, and checksums.

🚀 Usage

1. ⬇️ Download a story archive from stories/.
2. 📦 Extract the archive, keeping its project folders together.
3. 🖥️ Open the story’s .blend file in Blender (usually step_9.blend).
4. 🎨 Explore scenes and animations, edit the world, or use the code for camera-planning experiments.

⚖️ License

CineBoard3D++ is released under CC BY-NC 4.0. Third-party assets retain their applicable licenses and attribution requirements; see LICENSE.md.

📚 Citation

If you use CineBoard3D++ in your research, please cite:

@misc{bian2026lookbeforemovenarrativegroundedworldvisual,
  title={Look-Before-Move: Narrative-Grounded World Visual Attention in Dynamic 3D Story Worlds},
  author={Jiaming Bian and Bingliang Li and Yuehao Wu and Pichao Wang and Zhi Wang and Hailan Ma and Huadong Mo and Zhenhong Sun},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2606.26964},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.AI},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26964}
}