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If you haven’t yet learned the name Blu, then you are certainly in for one hell of an introduction.

Blu is the visionary graffiti artist/muralist/genius-at-large behind the Muto and Combo animations that have been going around the Internet for the past couple years. Those were innovative and jaw-dropping at the time, but his latest project, Big Bang Big Boom, is so far beyond either of them it’s pretty flabbergasting. So flabbergasting that I went so far as to use the word flabbergasting… so you know it must be good.

The film follows a loose concept of the evolution of life on earth, while simultaneously charting an incredible evolution in Blu’s technique. Here, he employs the same ideas he pioneered in his first two large scale wall painting animations, such as repetition and interaction with the surrounding environment, and takes them to exponential levels. Which is thematically appropriate anyway, as exponential growth is a consistent motif in Blu’s work. You will see things you cannot believe, things you have never seen before. And that is the cornerstone of any good art.