Creativity from Without

MUTO by Blu

It was a few years ago when I stumbled across this video on Youtube.  It is a stop-action animation from an artist that goes by the name of Blu.  The video is shot in the streets of Argentina and is very impressive.  The shear scale of the project is overwhelming.  Every piece of motion is the culmination of hundreds of individually painted scenes.  The artist is creating an animation in our world, on the streets of Argentina.

The artist's characters have personality and the story is carried throughout multiple buildings.  The whole sequence is very well thought out.  The walls used by the artist create a trail of white paint over the graffiti and cement on the buildings.  The music is also timed accordingly to what the characters are doing in the video.

The juxtaposition of fictional characters interacting with our environment is intriguing.   The sequence would have been less interesting if it had been completely animated.  The characters are confined by the size of the building on which they are painted. The artist used both inside and outside architecture to tell his story.The fact that the sequence used the outside world to tell a fictional story is proof enough that the artist is inspired from without.