Style Brush: Guided Style Transfer for 3D Objects

Abstract

We introduce Style Brush, a novel style transfer method for textured meshes designed to empower artists with fine-grained control over the stylization process. Our approach extends traditional 3D style transfer methods by introducing a novel loss function that captures style directionality, supports multiple style images or portions thereof and enables smooth transitions between styles in the synthesized texture. The use of easily generated guiding textures streamlines user interaction, making our approach accessible to a broad audience. Extensive evaluations with various meshes, style images and contour shapes demonstrate the flexibility of our method and showcase the visual appeal of the generated textures. Finally, the results of a user study indicate that our approach generates visually appealing mesh textures that adhere to user-defined guidance and enable users to retain creative control during stylization. Our implementation is available on: https://github.com/AronKovacs/style-brush.