I selected a poster of the movie ‘My Neighbor Totoro‘ by artist Olly Moss. I think the poster does justice to the classic, capturing the essence of the movie in playful colors.

Original files on my github.

Process:

GRID :

• Lay out in gimp image editing software.
• The color of the grid lines should be selected to contrast with all colors in the image.

COLORS :

• Change the image mode to five indexed colors, letting gimp select the colors itself.
• Identify the percentage cover of each color with the histogram tool in gimp.
• Export the indexed image into InkScape.
• Selecting the color using the eyedropper tool, make circles of area proportional to percentage cover of each color.
• Align the circles to the right of the image.
• Export the image along with the semicircles.

FONTS:

• Open the image in InkScape.
• Crop sections of image with each individual font.
• Identify the font using WhatTheFont.
• Use MyFonts to get sample text for each font (if the font is not free).
• Grab the image samples and import them in InkScape.
• Trace bitmap to get manipulatable vectors for the image.
• Change the color and size of the vector to match the image context.
• Export image from InkScape.