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
Commission Portrait Artist | Freelance Illustrator & 2D Animator | Resource Productions "Creative Collective" Member