Ai: First, I want to Congratulations on winning the Moji Tee.
Son:  (Thank U!)

Ai : Tell me a little bit about yourself, your education, and your career? What do you like to do  in your
spare time?
Son : Now I’m a last year student. You could be surprised knowing that my education field doesn’t relate to art. My university is Hanoi University of Technology (a tech university) and my main education field is Electronic and Telecommunication. I’m a funny guy and a good-natured person who would harm anyone. Hehe, come here, I don’t harm you :D.
I think I don’t have many spare time, but in my free time, I usually go out with my friend, play game, watch DVD movie, or even just imagine something.

Ai : Tell me about your life style?
Son : My life style is easy. I’m not finical about anything except work.

Ai : How did you get your start in Character Design?
Son : I get start in Character Design since I have my first computer. At the first time, I often try to draw myseft and my relatives as funny as possible. When I saw Mojizu site, I recognize that this’s a good place for me to present my stuffs on the web. So, that’s a turning-point of my Character Design career.

Ai : I am very impressed with your work such as Island Boy, Egg Keeper and Waapii etc.. Could you tell me “Where do you get the inspiration for your art?”
Son :I get my inspiration from the things in my life. I think of any thing I see in my life and imagine how could funny it be. Ex: I get inspiration for IslandBoy from my overcoat :D. I wear it and see at the mirror. OH, How silly I’m look like! And IslandBoy come out from that :D.

Ai : What projects are you working on at the moment?
Son : I’m now a last year students and doing my project for my graduate. So I don’t have time to join other projects.

Ai : Do you have your favorite artists? And who?
Son :I have many favorite artists with diferrence styles (Ex: Grabriel Valley with vector skill, Hadden LunchBox and gradient works...).

Ai : Could you talk about your process “how do you create a character from start to end?”
Son: I don’t have many tools to process my work (Ex: pentablet, scanner,…). When I have an idea, I use pencil tool in Flash or Illustrator to sketch out my idea with mouse. After that, I trace it with pen tool and color in Flash. That’s all. :P

Ai : Do you have any tips you could give?
Son: Always try to look the life with optimist eyes and funny way. :D

Ai : How long does it take to complete acharacter?
Son: Not too long. Max is 1 day cause when I have one character idea, I spend all the time to complete it.

Ai : Is there a character design you have done that you are most proud of and why?
Son: I love all my chacracter designs, but the one that make me proud of is “Creambot” cause I got a Moji champion with it. In addition, one German ask to buy it for his company logo and I got 400 Euros from it. It’s the first time I sell my work and I very proud of it! :D

Ai : What software do you currently work with?
Son: As I talk before, I always find other drawing styles to practise, so I can work with almost famous graphic softwares as Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash ….at a certain level. But I have more time to work with Flash and I still like to work with it most.

Ai : What are some of your favorite websites that you go to?
Son: I found many interesting graphic sites but my favorite is Threadless.com and Mojizu.com for sure. :D

Ai: Do you have any advice for people who are interested in character design?
Son: Try to imagine what couldn’t be with your character or place your character in contrast situation and have fun. :D

Ai : The Five most important things in your life are ?
Son: Family, Friends, Career, Money, and something to do.

Ai: Finally, what would you like to say to Studioaiko?
Son: One of my favourite artist, you have skill and creative. I don’t like you cause your style is hard for me to practise unless … you have some tutorials or tips. :D

Interviewer: Sikan Techakaruha, Thailand

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