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The awesome graffiti-meets-installation-meets-animation projects that have been popping up increasingly often just keep getting better. This one by the Quintessenz crew is stylistically very different from Blu’s work, and originality always goes a long way. In this short, it does both figuratively and literally. I can’t stress this enough — True Colors is the shit.

About 3 minutes in, I think I realized that were it not for a childhood spent plopped in front of Gumby, I might not like this shit nearly as much. Either way, the video is massively cool and must have taken a massive amount of work. According to Quintessenz, the project took four months in an abandoned space with only artificial light — no sun at all. The most impressive thing about the film, to me, is that everything was handmade! To create the stop-motion animation, 5000 pictures were processed with an average of 15 frames per second. Feel free to pick your jaw up off the floor at any time.