11 Facts About Payut Ngaokrachang

Payut Ngaokrachang was a Thai cartoonist and animator.

Payut Ngaokrachang created Thai cinema's first cel-animated feature film, The Adventure of Sudsakorn.

Payut Ngaokrachang studied by correspondence with illustrator Hem Vejakorn, whose work was seen on the covers of 10-satang pulp novels.

Payut Ngaokrachang was a great teacher and taught me a lot, from how to draw anatomy to getting the right perspective on paintings.

At age 17, Payut Ngaokrachang took his first job painting backgrounds for play sets as he traveled around Thailand with theater groups.

Payut Ngaokrachang worked as a block printer, making etchings, and was employed at an advertising agency.

One of Payut Ngaokrachang's influences was artist Sanae Klaikluen, whom Payut Ngaokrachang had met in 1941.

Sanae was interested in animation and wanted Payut Ngaokrachang to join him in a project.

Sanae died a year later, and it was then that Payut Ngaokrachang decided he wanted to be an animator.

In 1955, while he was recovering from an illness, Payut Ngaokrachang set about animating a cartoon he had been drawing for a newspaper.

Payut Ngaokrachang had been a guest lecturer on animation at many universities before his death in Bangkok on 27 May 2010.