Logo designed for "La grenouille qui rêve", a website created in late 1999, defunct in 2004. Inspired by a tattoo, it is nonetheless fairly stylish, gecko-like.
Above left is the old bitmap version, enlarged to show the pixelisation, and right the new vectorial version, which can now be displayed at any size.
The bitmap was designed from a bulky 2000x2000 bitmap (now lost) possibly more than 4Mb (ok at those sizes bitmaps can become usable in print too), while the vectorial shape is a mere 7kb, and is technically superior.
In that kind of work, the basic vectorisation is done automatically, but the bulk of the work (in the case above 1 hour) is going through each and every angle, reviewing every curve, adjusting every detail, and comparing it to the original. It involves some decision making because as the original is too small, some details are unknown, that is, simply not visible because the bitmap has them blurred. Therefore it is sometimes comparable to the difficult work of painting restauration when a part of a painting has been destroyed and you need to imagine what the artist may have intended in the beginnning.
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