Stop Motion Wednesday: COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis

Whew, it's been a while since I had the time to write a post. I must apologise for the long absence, things have been absolutely crazy around here with the Peperami brief in full swing. I promise to you that I will try my hardest to keep up to speed with the posts!

Anyway - I thought that I would share with you today possibly one of my favourite artists of all time - and yes he does stop motion films of epic proportions. Blu is a street/graffiti artist from Italy....

He likes to paint on walls and his murals and sketches are out of this world  - his drawing style is almost child-like, yet extremely detailed. Most of his work is characterised by massive amounts of white space which makes his sparse use of colour so much better. Blu's website is awesome and features a bunch of his wall mural animations and sketch drawings.. they're pretty mind-blowing.

Apart from his amazing murals, where Blu really caught me was with his large scale - and I mean large scale - stop motion work. Anyone who has taken art as a subject will know that art is to a large extent as much about the process as producing a final product. It must take Blu months and months to complete these and I can't even imagine how strange is must be to see his drawings morph and progress over time. The conceptualising process itself must go through so many changes.  To see what I mean check out his latest video which is a collaboration with another street artist, David Ellis.

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop)

Personally I can't stop watching it. There is just too much going on and I'm always catching something new... You can watch all of Blu's work on his Vimeo channel - and while you do I really urge you to take the time to think about the process behind the work, not just the result...

“Painting in  public spaces is a really interesting social experience. What I like most is not the piece itself, but people’s reaction, and how the piece is being digested by the city. At the beginning, it is something new: It can be pleasant or disturbing, depending on the point of view. Then, with time, it becomes part of everyday life, and it can take on an old, familiar flavour, like those old, rusted billboards or advertising murals, forgotten in the corners of our cities.” — Blu

Source: Print Magazine