THAI WHALE

CONSERVATION
Giving a voice through animation
 Principal Collaborators
Aaron Schmidt and Chankit Chamnivikaipong
 CHANKIT CHAMNIVIKAIPING
Award winning cinematographer

Won Best Cinematographer for Headshot at Catalonian

International Film Festival 2012 and Nang Mai National Film
Association Award 2009.

Has worked on numerous of Television Commercials with

acclaimed directors Michael Warr, Wisit Sassantian and Pen-
ek Rattanarueng.

Chankit is an accomplished diver and is hired as a

cinematographer for local and international productions. His
photographs of Brydes whales were included in the book
Brydes Whales and the Upper Gulf of Thailand and Brydes
whale in Thailand by Dr. Adulyanukosol

Co-founder of the webpage thaiwhales.org with Komchai

Thanapanich
 AARON SCHMIDT
VFX supervisor for multiple films, music videos
and TVCs

Worked at MUIC since 2009 as an animation

lecturer

Collaborated with Bryan Ott on The Glow a

film funded by a grant from MUIC. The Glow
won multiple awards including Best fantasy
short at the Rhode Island International Horror
Film Festival 2012 and Best short film at the
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival,
2012
INSPIRATION
 Dr. Kanjana Adulyanukosol and her team at the Marine and Coastal Resource Research and Development Center
THE ANIMATION PROCESS
STORYBOARD
DESIGN
 BRYDES WHALE
NOT HUMPBACK WHALE
 BRYDES WHALE IS NAMED AFTER THE
NORWEGIAN, JOHAN BRYDE (1858-1925)
WHO FOUNDED THE WHALING INDUSTRY
IN SOUTH AFRICA. THE PRONUNCIATION IS
SOMETHING LIKE BRUDES
3D MODELING
UV AND TEXTURING
PHOTO ID
MAE SRIKHRAM
SKIN COLORATION
2 BLOW HOLES AND 3 HEAD RIDGES
VENTRAL PLEATS, GENITAL OPENING MAMMARY SLITS,
AND LARGE FLUKE
WOUNDS ON THE HEAD
RIGGING AND ANIMATION
LIGHTING & COMPOSITING
THE FILM
CONSERVATION
Coastal Resource Research and
Development Center have dedicated
their lives and careers to the research
and preservation of the whales living in
the gulf of Thailand.
However despite their efforts the whales
continue to be threatened by fishing
nets, plastic ingestion, habitat
degradation, underwater sound pollution,
and vessel strikes by boats and ships.
Drift Gill Nets
Other nets include Seine Nets, Lift Net &
Falling Net with light luring*
WHAT CAN WE DO?
EDUCATE OURSELVES
A secondary problem that has received limited research attention is media
influence on the wildlife trade, particularly animations featuring animals.
BE AWARE OF THE POLLUTION WE CREATE
 Critically endangered, Spixs Macaw
One of the commonest criticisms of how the mass media communicate
conservation or biodiversity-related messages is that they may
misrepresent facts, inaccurately depict contents, or in some cases,
sensationalise.
QUESTIONNAIRE
THANK YOU