GF5 GF5: Animating 3D Characters

Final submission

Final Report

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The final report is the main submission for Part 3.

The goal is not to reward the number of tools used. The goal is to show that your group can create and explain a coherent animated scene.

Deadline: Friday 12 June 2026, 4pm.

Submit the final report and required results on Moodle: https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/mod/assign/view.php?id=19560072

Each student should submit their own PDF of no more than 8 pages. The group work can be shared across group members, but the individual contribution section should be written separately by each student.

Use this page budget:

  • Group work: up to 6 pages, following the report structure below.
  • Individual contribution and insights: up to 2 pages, written by the student submitting the PDF.

Use 11 pt main text and single line spacing. References are excluded from the 8 page limit. Appendices are allowed for supplementary evidence, but the report must be understandable and markable without relying on appendix material.

What To Submit

Upload:

  • your own report PDF, containing the shared group-work section and your individual contribution section
  • a separate ZIP file containing the required result files

The ZIP file should include:

  • an animation video of at least 30 seconds
  • the saved .scene.json file if you used the GF5 scene editor, or equivalent project files if you used another tool
  • the assets and motion files used in the final result
  • any custom code, edited scene-editor files, generated assets, tool outputs, test clips, or screenshots that help explain the method

You may use external tools, AI tools, custom assets, or your own changes to the scene editor, but the final video should still come from an animation pipeline: compose a scene, control the character motion, choose or create character assets, and render the result. The report should make clear how the animation was produced, which decisions controlled the scene, and how the final render was made.

Report Structure

Use these section headings in your report:

  1. Scene Plot Describe what happens in the final animation and the intended effect.
  1. Method Explain the main workflow used to produce the final animation. This may include the GF5 scene editor, alternative tools, custom avatars, motion sources, skinning weights, rendering choices, AI tools, or any changes you made to the provided code.
  1. Results And Evidence Include still frames from the final video and discuss what works well. Use figures where they help explain the pipeline or compare the final result with intermediate tests, such as a scene editor screenshot, a proxy-preview versus final-render comparison, or examples of visible artifacts.
  1. Artifacts, Limitations, And Reflection Discuss visible problems, limitations of the tools or data, what worked and what did not, and what your group would improve with more time.
  1. AI Use Statement State either No AI tools used, or describe which AI tools you used and what you used them for. This may include idea generation, coding help, asset generation, motion generation, editing, writing support, or other production work.
  1. Individual Contribution And Insights Use up to 2 pages for your own individual section. Briefly explain your contribution, which parts of the group work or final result show your work, technical choices or problems you handled, and what you understood or learned.

The report should explain the final pipeline and result. It should not be a diary of every command you ran.