"Where did you grow up"
He grew up in Surin Province, North east of
Thailand, Isaan , in the city of Surin until 13 years old and moved to the 7th
Grade here in Bangkok and lived here ever since. But he still he returns to
visit his mum. They have a lot of elephant [in Surin], the elephant tribe, (Kui or Suay)
the people who raise elephant, live out of the city in Baan Taklang. Every year
in November they come for the big ceremony. The elephants came to town for the big show,
elephant fair [the annual Surin
elephant round up]"they would always walk past my house …it was very impressive
to see the big animals... elephants are really quiet, but they poop all the time"
He was impressed by the show where they have the elephant soccer matches.
"They divide the elephant by 10 each side. The ball is really big, elephant sized. The smaller one [elephant] has more enthusiasm playing. The bigger one’s are slower, but when the small one get’s the ball and tries to make a goal big one, the guard [goalie] he came forward and the small one he just gave up and ran away – it was really funny."
He was impressed by the show where they have the elephant soccer matches.
"They divide the elephant by 10 each side. The ball is really big, elephant sized. The smaller one [elephant] has more enthusiasm playing. The bigger one’s are slower, but when the small one get’s the ball and tries to make a goal big one, the guard [goalie] he came forward and the small one he just gave up and ran away – it was really funny."
As a child he grew up with Black and White TV at home from Khon Kaen broadcasting only one channel, Channel
7 and was really impressed by Japanese Tv shows:
· Kamen Rider (仮面ライダー Kamen Raidā?, Masked Rider) is a tokusatsu television series
and weekly science
fiction manga created by manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. 1971
· Tiger Mask (タイガーマスク Taigā Masuku?) is a Japanese manga
series written by Ikki Kajiwara
and illustrated by Naoki Tsuji. 1969-1971
· Great Mazinger (グレートマジンガー Gurēto
Majingā?) is a manga comic
book and anime television
series by manga artist Go Nagai
and a direct continuation of the successful Mazinger Z series. 1974
(source:wikipedia)
And like many kids he liked to draw a lot. He pretty much liked to draw or mimick the characters from the movies or tv
shows.
When did you first decide you wanted to be an animator?
He didn’t really draw anything else besides the character his spare time,
"at school
they ask you to draw something like a house, a tree, a leaf or fruit or animals
but in my spare time I always draw characters, trying to get the character
right. Sometimes from the tv or sometimes from the theatre [cinema] we had like
Disney movies came to our town and I remember I tried to get the scenery of
Robin Hood 1973 Directed
by Wolfgang Reitherman – Maid Marion she was a fox, she looked pretty
as a fox ."
"I’m
into film and animation but I didn’t get any idea how to produce it but when I
was young I collected a film strip and tried to make a projector himself. Using
the candle, or flashlight and a lens to try to project it to the wall.
Sometimes we did like moving shadow [puppets] when he was young but the chance to kind of like opportunity to
become an animator occurred to me when I was at university. Because we had a
movie class."
Where and what courses did you study in Thailand?
Where and what courses did you study in Thailand?
Almost 25 -30 years ago he went to Silapakorn University after high
school to study – Visual Communication – we learned all kinds of advertising,
drawing , films and video , some perspective drawing, but they did not have an
animation class at that time. They didn't even have computers, or any kind of
editing equipment. But they did have a film study class.
to be continued.....
