Moon Rats Midnight Crisis
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!
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!
The concept art is for an animation created for London Bus-Tops, a collaborative public art installation project across 20 London boroughs with 30 red and black LED screens on the roofs of bus shelters dotted around London creating a new exhibition space for the public arts as part of London's 2012 cultural Olympiad.
Moon Rats Midnight Crisis - Concept art mural
These are Moon Rats! The drawings were done In Flash MX 8 and Photoshop CS3 then later animated in Flash MX 8 and composited in After Effects
Panoramic print on stretched canvas - 47.2" x 19.6" inches
The Moon Rats Have Landed
Synopsis:
Space Rats do exist. They live on the dark side of the Moon hidden away from view until the invasion of Earth. Their journey through outer space is complete but at a great cost. Thousands did not make the trip, now an endangered species only the strongest of the Moon Rats will survive. They lurk in the shadows, patiently waiting for the perfect moment to strike. The sound of city life disguises their presence like calm before a storm. Side by side the Space Rat army stand in formation, salivating over the massacre to come. Gleaming fangs sharpened for war pierce through the darkness, creeping ever so closer. Now it’s only a matter of time!
Space Rats do exist. They live on the dark side of the Moon hidden away from view until the invasion of Earth. Their journey through outer space is complete but at a great cost. Thousands did not make the trip, now an endangered species only the strongest of the Moon Rats will survive. They lurk in the shadows, patiently waiting for the perfect moment to strike. The sound of city life disguises their presence like calm before a storm. Side by side the Space Rat army stand in formation, salivating over the massacre to come. Gleaming fangs sharpened for war pierce through the darkness, creeping ever so closer. Now it’s only a matter of time!
'The Moon Rats Have Landed' was on show around London during the 2012 Olympic Games in Barnet, Croydon, Harrow, Bromley, Camden, Hillingdon and many more London boroughs.
That's me waiting for a bus on Spaniards Road in Camden displaying 'The Moon Rats Have Landed'
