Blu is an anonymous artist, much like Banksy, orginated from Italy became known from his first piece of work in Italy. His method of using rollers to cover as much area as possible makes his work captivating and unique.
His method of his animations are stop-motion, his animations normally last for at least 5 upto 10 mins. So you can't even begin to imagine how many times he had to redraw and capture the frame! The answer.... too many! But watching his videos amaze me but unsettle me at the same time, because his characters are quite dark and they all distort at some part of the video. Another way to describe his videos are rhetorical, often his characters go round in a circle, they start a 'human' form, grow into all these animals, grow to huge sizes and then end the animation as they were like at the beginning of the animation. Which is his main theme throughout his works, his characters evolve into creatures which are insect like or robotic. The music that he uses is works well with his animation because it generally is in time when his animation moving. They are often spider/insect like, so his music is tinny and a tinkling sound, which represents each leg tapping on the surface.
These animations are particularly inspiring to my work because this artist has a really strong story and happening of events. Obviously, he has a longer time to develop the story to really elaborate on his character but I feel I can express a short story which can animate a really weird story, which makes the viewer feel uneasy but that ultimately makes the animation a sucess.
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