A big influence for the poster of my visual development project, "A Town Called Bicentennial," were the films of John Ford and various other prolific Westerns of the 20th century. I began with various logo ideations based on the titles and fonts seen in classic westerns such as Stagecoach, Rio Bravo, A Fistful of Dollars, and Tombstone. With a few, I wanted to also feature implied worldbuilding through robotic and futuristic design choices, such as a neon-saloon sign.
As I developed thumbnails for the poster, I looked to the same references and attempted to maintain the similar mythos-making parables that Westerns liked to represent. The town, and its association with the Baron, was a big element that I wanted to center. The story was one of the insurmountable odds the Droid with No name has to overcome in order to liberate the townspeople, and I thoguht that a good way to depict that underdog story was by using scale. The mountainside juxtaposes the droid's small silhouette, and the angle of the title and slope helps to show an uphill climb in the story.
