FilmFlow: Agentic System for 3D Virtual Film Cinematography

cs.CV Yiming Zhang, Jiarui Guo, Haojia Wei, Yifei Liu, Yifan Yang, Hongjie Zhang, Xue Yang, Zhihang Zhong · Oct 22, 2026
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Complex camera motion is central to visual storytelling, yet translating cinematographic intent into controllable, executable camera trajectories remains challenging. We introduce FilmFlow, an agentic framework that converts...
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CinemaBench supports evaluation of both text-directed camera generation and video reference-directed camera generation. Across a diverse set of evaluated baselines, FilmFlow achieves the strongest benchmark performance and the highest user...
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Abstract

Complex camera motion is central to visual storytelling, yet translating cinematographic intent into controllable, executable camera trajectories remains challenging. We introduce FilmFlow, an agentic framework that converts natural-language instructions or reference videos into explicit camera trajectories for dynamic 3D environments. To generate these trajectories, a Director agent constructs executable camera plans by composing high-level motions from concurrent atomic operations that jointly control translation, rotation, and framing. The Director is supported by three specialized agents: an Interpreter that extracts scene-grounded cinematographic intent, a Scout that selects initial viewpoints, and a Critic that evaluates rendered results and provides visual feedback for iterative plan refinement. We also introduce CinemaBench, comprising 150 Blender scenes from self-created and licensed sources, with five camera instructions per scene for 750 text-directed tasks and 60 reference videos associated with a subset of scenes. CinemaBench supports evaluation of both text-directed camera generation and video reference-directed camera generation. Across a diverse set of evaluated baselines, FilmFlow achieves the strongest benchmark performance and the highest user preference, demonstrating effective spatial reasoning, temporal coordination, and visual composition for executable 3D cinematography.

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