Drawing Style Capture for Cartoon Rendering

This paper proposes a method for capturing the drawing style of cartoon from the original comic book. Given a concept drawing image of the specific comic book, our approach recovers not only the color scheme, but also the color ratio. The main technical contribution of this paper is a shading model capture and a stylized cartoon rendering. For the shading model capture, we collect RGB statistics from the original drawing and sort the RGB data using its frequency and extract the shading model using dynamic threshold. We also propose the stylized cartoon rendering to represent 3d object using 2D texture according to the original cartoon style. We show on various cartoons that our approach can capture the drawing styles even in the case of rapid color changes and wide color schemes.