Reading

Reading by Anastasia Gorbunov

I found the modified version of this inspiring picture on 9GAG. It obviously seemed that it had been adjusted somehow before posting. This picture was originally painted by an Russian artist named Anastasia Gorbunov for an competition to encourage reading and literacy. The sentence in the picture can be translated roughly as "Reading is not dangerous. Not reading is." The 9GAG-poster did crop the original text besides adding his/her own sentence which holds different meaning from the original version.

Whatever, the graphic alone is strong enough to represent the way in which books could build up everyone's imagination, especially for children. Although the modern world has be filled with advanced media which have greater ability in conveying information. Books are still good in their orthodox method. When people read books, they are discovering designed scenes, characters and events in their own mind instead of eyes. This grants them private space to draw the unique figments of their imagination based on individual experience. In other words, books do not show things, they describe them...

Previous Experience

[CREDIT]
Weerawat Mungkung
- Design and Compositing

Copyright © 2007-2010, Kantana Animation Studios


[ABOUT THE VIDEO]

All of works in the showreel was created while I was working in Kantana Animation Studios. Basically, I was working as a designer and a composite artist. However, I also did some easy rendering to solve composite problems.

Weerawat Mungkung's 2010 Showreel (FULL) from Weerawat Mungkung on Vimeo.

Master Project

[CREDIT]
Weerawat Mungkung
- Directing, Script Writing, Storyboarding, Design, Modelling, Rigging, Texturing, Animating, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing and Editing

Philip Martin
- Music and Sound Effects


[ABOUT THE VIDEO]
The Match is a project in which I had developed during the period of studying MSc Animation & Visualisation at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. It is also my first 3D character animation which took approximately 7 months in researching and doing experiments before taking 11 weeks for the production.

Although a considerable number of modern animated films are created using 3D technique, I found that the illustrations and paper engineering in children books can provide a different type of appeal. Thus, I have combined these techniques to generate a creative and unconventional animation that could result in an interesting experience for the viewer.

An animation about a neglected girl has been created in 3D technique eventually, and contains a number of virtual paper-engineering. It is an attempted of using benefits of illustration-like textures and design in animated films.


The Match (2011) from Weerawat Mungkung on Vimeo.