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The World Is Your Canvas
by amid
September 22, 2007 2:57 am


Who needs pencil and paper? Italian graffiti artist and painter Blu paints his animation onto the ground and walls. His latest piece, Fantoche (posted below), was created earlier this month during the Fantoche Animation Festival in Switzerland. It is a brilliant and inspiring creative accomplishment, not to mention an obviously staggering amount of work:

Blu also creates hand-drawn animation and is the subject of a forthcoming documentary, the trailer for which can be viewed here.

(Thanks both to Wilbert Plijnaar and John Luciano)

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    • 17 comments   posted in Shorts

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    09/22/07  6:14am
    Palmer says:

    That… is… insane. (In a good way.)

    I like the way the animation interacts with fixtures and objects in the room.
    09/22/07  6:43am
    Robert Schaad says:

    This is great stuff. Very imaginative!
    09/22/07  7:03am
    Steve Segal says:

    Wow this is so amazing! I don’t want to think how long it takes, it looks like it all happens in real time (complete with hand-held effect). They didn’t really need to run the entire thing twice, just a few second to show that it goes on and on would be enough.
    09/22/07  7:57am
    The No Man says:

    That is absolutely amazing! holy *%&*. Out of this world.
    09/22/07  8:34am
    Bugsmer says:

    Fascinating! That looks really cool, particularly when the animation goes all around the room. The story itself is also interesting.
    09/22/07  10:09am
    Tom Pope says:

    Geez Louise!
    09/22/07  12:05pm
    Bob says:

    Very interesting, and well done. Reminds me of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” with all the morphing animation.
    09/22/07  12:21pm
    red pill junkie says:

    Incredible!!!!
    09/22/07  3:23pm
    joris says:

    I was at Fantoche and peeked in to the room from time to time to see what was going on, but I didn’t have a chance to watch the end result. It worked out really great! Thanks internet!
    09/22/07  5:22pm
    Michael says:

    More proof that animation can do a lot more than sell toys.
    09/22/07  6:56pm
    Marc Deckter says:

    Fantastic! Reminds me of the old lightning sketches of animation pioneer James Stuart Blackton. I fully support these types of animation undertakings.
    09/23/07  1:43am
    Black Wolf says:

    I agree with Palmer, that is really insane. It’s very cool though.
    09/23/07  6:23pm
    David says:

    Really really great!
    I like the idea too–doesn’t it seem like our heads are trying to escape our bodies? And then?
    09/23/07  7:01pm
    mick says:

    ha ha marvelous. Great idea. mesmerising.
    09/24/07  2:32am
    Boris Hiestand says:

    Absolutely amazing. One of the best things I’ve seen in a LONG time
    09/24/07  8:25am
    matt says:

    Holy cow Amid! Thanks for showing us this stuff! I wouldn’t have known about it otherwise. Super cool.
    09/24/07  1:54pm
    J.T Wilson says:

    WOW. Holy ^&#$^. I am impressed. That is really amazing. An animator’s animator. Really really amazing.

    The video seems to loop in itself though…
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