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Synopsis: 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 descent to planet Earth below, a never ending alien invasion. One small step for man, one giant leap for space rats! Product Info: Size - 120cm x 50cm. Print - Panoramic print on stretched canvas. "The concept art is for an animation created for London Bus-Tops, a collaborative public art installation project across 20 London boroughs, creating a new exhibition space for the public arts as part of London's 2012 cultural Olympiad." Print Available Here Yuyanda's Blog of Art and Design, Animation and Illustration. 2017. All Rights Reserved.

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 Pro...