1. [Publications](/publications) 2. CreatureShop: Interactive 3D Character Modeling and Texturing from a Single Color Drawing # CreatureShop: Interactive 3D Character Modeling and Texturing from a Single Color Drawing ![](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/publications/creatureshop_repimage.png?itok=5I4J75Ao) Creating 3D shapes from 2D drawings is an important problem with applications in content creation for computer animation and virtual reality. We introduce a new sketch-based system, *CreatureShop*, that enables amateurs to create high-quality textured 3D character models from 2D drawings with ease and efficiency. CreatureShop takes an input bitmap drawing of a character (such as an animal or other creature), depicted from an arbitrary descriptive pose and viewpoint, and creates a 3D shape with plausible geometric details and textures from a small number of user annotations on the 2D drawing. Our key contributions are a novel oblique view modeling method, a set of systematic approaches for producing plausible textures on the invisible or occluded parts of the 3D character (as viewed from the direction of the input drawing), and a user-friendly interactive system. We validate our system and methods by creating numerous 3D characters from various drawings, and compare our results with related works to show the advantages of our method. We perform a user study to evaluate the usability of our system, which demonstrates that our system is a practical and efficient approach to create fully-textured 3D character models for novice users. ## Authors Congyi Zhang (University of Hong Kong) Lei Yang (University of Hong Kong) Nenglun Chen (University of Hong Kong) [Nicholas Vining](/person/nicholas-vining) Alla Sheffer (University of British Columbia) Francis C. M. Lau (University of Hong Kong) Guoping Wang (Peking University) Wenping Wang (Texas A&M University) ## Publication Date Tuesday, August 9, 2022 ## Published in [IEEE Transactions on Vision and Computer Graphics](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9852696) ## Research Area [Computer Graphics](/research-area/computer-graphics) ## External Links [Project Webpage](https://cong-yi.github.io/projects/creatureshop/) ## Copyright This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to .