by Larry Brody
As many of you already know, I’m a partner in a Thai animation studio start-up called Southeast Asia Animation. SEAA is the home of a group of Thai animators calling themselves the Thai Kaeng and their Big Boss, a 17 year old genius currently living in the leafy green state of Oregon.
In as short a logline as I, as SEAA’s Senior Advisor, can give it, Thai Kaeng Anime is a combination of new ideas and deliberately old school methodology geared to achieve two purposes – the entertainment and amusement of the audience and the fulfillment of its creators’ need to function as true artists.
In other words, the Thai Kaeng isn’t just sitting around drawing and writing, its using drawing and writing and all that to meditate and become one with the universe, while at the same time conjuring up the craziest, funniest, scariest, bloodiest stuff its members can get jammed into their brains from out there in the void.