I am Yuyanda

London Bus-Tops caught my attention after watching a  YouTube  promo video and I thought to myself “I can do that, that’s right up my alley”. I immediately stopped working on an on-going student film poster project called ChitChatClick in order to get my work onto a Bus-Top in-time for the 2012 Olympic Games, which was the drive behind my motivation. While studying Digital Arts at university I crudely created my first 2D animated music video called Rat Radar that’s been described as ‘Gorillaz’ after the  stylized  fictional cartoon band. It was unfulfilled in terms of potential and I instantly knew the characteristics and visual language would compliment the Bus-Tops requirements to a tea! I conceived the crazy idea of giant Space Rats marauding around the moon while walking home one night in the filthy west London suburb of Southall where I used to live with my troubled father, looking up to the moon lit sky listening to Action Radar by The Prodigy. I guess the image just

It's been a while since my last post. I have recently created animation and artwork for London Bus-Tops, a collaborative public art installation across 20 London boroughs. There are 30 red and black LED screens dotted around London, on the roofs of bus shelters. creating a new exhibition space for the public and Public Arts to the build up to the London Olympic Games. Synopsis behind the vision: Cheese is used to bait rats. Is the moon made of cheese? No, that’s just a silly fable but giant space rats do rule over the lunar surface. The only dominant life form from the dark side of the barren rock. As the Tetris Space Shuttle blasts into orbit through the moody midnight sky, shooting stars signals the beginning of the Moon Rats decent to planet Earth below, a never ending alien invasion. One small step for man, one giant leap for space rats! The workflow included Flash 8, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 and Adobe After Effects 7.0. Unfortunately the L.E.D screen

Simcity is a visual concept created for a student film poster commission called ChitChatClick. Mobile phones and inner city life are a crucial part of the script which has been incorporated into the visual language. Each character is assigned their own simcard with its own colour or tariff. The colour scheme is based on the Fauvist approach to clashing complimentary colours. ChitChatClick on Deviantart ChitChatClick on Facebook

Following on from the finished character designs (see previous posts) I decided to composite a quick character design process which shows how I work. 3 stages which include the initial stick figure or skeleton with perspective, fleshing out the body and finally layering all the clothing, accessories and finer details. Pencil media on 140gsm paper. Mechanical Pencils. A4 light box. Rulers. Erasers. Paint brushes. ChitChatClick on Deviantart ChitChatClick on Facebook