MUTO by Blu is another short film that uses stop frame animation to create a moving image. In this instance it involves the artist painting graffiti on walls in an urban environment. The artist painstakingly painted each movement the characters made, taking hundreds or perhaps thousands of pictures of each slight movement and then put them together to make it animated.
The main concept of this piece is the cycle and recycle of life. I got this impression because at the start of the film there is a monster with lots of legs that eventually turns into a man with arms, a head and eyes. Throughout the film the man is evolving and changing, with him often turning into something else, essentially being 'reborn'. Several times he actually emerges from another persons body or apart of his body turns into another creature; I feel this represents birth. The concept of life being recycled is represented through the ever-changing being consuming the thing before it and growing bigger. Towards the end it is a cocoon that then turns into a man with the wings of a butterfly which embodies evolution and change. It then ends with the man spitting out ants that scurry to a big human head and devour it until it's just a skull which represents the end of life, death.
This is a heavily crafted piece that would have required a large amount of time and patience on behalf of the artist and makes it a pretty amazing spectacle to watch.
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