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Damon Albarn and Jamie Hugulett, the creators of Gorillaz, are returning with a new unusual animated project: BBC broadcasting corporation invited them to create a two -minute screensaver dedicated to the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing.

The BBC bosses decided to move away from the usual production schematic scheme, usually consisting of slowed movements of sports moments, beautiful types and close -ups of athletes. Albarn and Hughlett offered them a concept based on the idea of ​​the Chinese novel “Journey to the West), which tells about the brave monk with several students fighting with demons to return the sacred Buddhist scriptures to China.

“The idea consisted in fitting the“ Travel to the West ”at 2 minutes, making the Olympic stadium,” Jamie Hughlett told the end point of the trip. Indeed, brave, strong and dexterous warriors, stubbornly going to their goal, are best suited for the ideas of the Olympic movement. In any case, the final video that started on the English broadcast in July, in July, It is noticeably distinguished against the background of the remaining sports screensavers.