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ZOMBIE ZOO X PIKOTARO MUSIC VIDEO

A partnership between the iconic Pen Pineapple Apple Pen legend, Pikotaro, and the 9-year-old NFT art prodigy, Zombie Zoo.

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Follow along as Pikotaro dances his way through an anime and videogame-inspired world to save the day.

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Visit youtube.com/watch?v=3_wqZhSKYZQ to see music video.

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Some animated montages

Sketchboard (What I mainly did)

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The music video drew references from many video games like Cho Aniki SNES, Sonic the Hedgehog Sega, King of the Monsters (Neo Geo AES), R-Type,…

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I contributed to the stillomatic by synchronizing the music timestamps with each scene or frame. I also drew a few scenes in it.

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Below are some scenes from the animated video:

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The monster vomiting scene

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The typing game

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The pinball game

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The dancing outro scene

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The login intro scene

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The 'Sing-together-face-to-face' scene

Bảo Anh as storyboard artist and creative

Jay Vũ as storyboard artist and creative

Tuấn Hà as storyboard artist and senior creative

Tuân Lê as creative director

Work done as part of 'ZOMBIE ZOO X PIKOTARO' NFT Project by The Lab Saigon (full credits in link)

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Group Credits

The Lab Saigon, VN

Sesẻ mobile app

Love is Hard, HIV Prevention is Easy website

Other works

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Various development works I contributed to during the time in Tusitala, a creative storytelling/literary art company based in Singapore

Works at Tusitala

2024-02

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Freelancing stuff for Vinamilk, the famous dairy corporation in Vietnam

Vinamilk Freelancing Gigs

2024-03

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An artist website focusing on claiming the traces left behind during a web development process, pondering the question of how we can observe the growth of a web page.

Victoria Hertel Velasco website

2023-11

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Visual identity and website design for an online crowdfunding platform focused on creative & cultural products in Vietnam.

trămđốt platform

2023-12

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A typeface designed with generative ligatures, complemented by a website that maximizes this concept.

Form & Agency exhibition website

2023-06

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Some process works for Singapore Art Week 2023 identity.

Singapore Art Week 2023

2022-09

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Site is built on Next.js with Tailwind CSS. CMS is from Notion API with react-notion-render ↗︎ by @9gustin for data rendering and upload-notion-images-to-cloudinary ↗︎ by @guillermodlpa for hosting images form Notion to Cloudinary. You can view the database on Notion here notion link ↗︎. Other dependencies include Prisma + PostgreSQL, Framer Motion, probe-image-size, seedrandom, react-lazy-load, ... See the Github repository of the site here github link ↗︎.

Typeface is Alegreya ↗︎ designed by Juan Pablo del Peral, Huerta Tipográfica. Mono typeface is Select Mono ↗︎ designed by MICHAEL McMASTER.

The idea of the site can be observed via the 3D View of the developer tool of Microsoft Edge. Inspect the site to see.

08/2019 →05/2023 (expected)	LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Singapore Diploma in Design for Communication and Experiences For the AY 2021 - 2022, I take a gap year to return to my hometown, Vietnam. I will be coming back to Singapore this August 2022 to resume my study.
09/2016 →05/2019	HIGHSCHOOL FOR THE GIFTED—VNUHCM Vietnam High School Diploma

08/2022 →10/2022	PRACTICE THEORY Graphic Design Intern – Communication & Visual Designer for the Singapore-based creative studio
07/2021 →12/2021	THE LAB SAIGON Junior Graphic Designer – Communication & Visual Designer for the Saigon-based creative agency
05/2019	INTEL PRODUCTS VIETNAM Independent Freelance Illustrator – Stage Background Illustrator for the company’s year-end event.
2017 →Now	SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISES Freelancer in Graphic Design – Responsible for the visual images, graphics, illustrations and concepts for clients’ needs.

07/2022	D&AD New Blood Academy – Participant.
01/2022 →03/2022	Google Developer Solution Challenge 2022 – Participant.
09/2021 →04/2022	Google Developer Student Club - UIT – Development team.
05/2021 →10/2021	Project Vietnamme—a non-profit organisation dedicated to the relationship of young Vietnamese and the Arts. – Graphic Design Consultation.
10/2020 →01/2021	Vietnamme Magazine—magazine.vietnamme.me, an online magazine dedicated to the contemporary arts in Vietnam. – Website Development, Graphic Design.
10/2017 →01/2018	Human Library Vietnam—a non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness to societal issues. – Graphic Design, Illustration.
08/2017 →08/2018	Project Sugar—a non-profit student-run organisation dedicated to underprivileged children – Graphic Design, Illustration, Art Direction.

2022	D&AD NEW BLOOD YELLOW PENCIL – Awarded 2022 Yellow Pencil by D&AD New Blood for the entry Duolingo: Non-fungible Efforts.
2021	RED DOT JUNIOR AWARD – Awarded “Red Dot Junior Award” under Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design by Red Dot Award in 2021.
2021	CERTIFICATE OF TYPOGRAPHIC EXCELLENCE TDC67 – Awarded “Certificate of Typographic Excellence” in TDC67 by Type Directors Club and will be included in the Annual of the Type Directors Club, The World’s Best Typography.
2020	LASALLE SCHOLARSHIP 2020-2021 – Awarded LASALLE Scholarship 2020–2021 to cover my tuition fee for my great performance at LASALLE College of the Arts.
2019	LASALLE TUITION GRANT – Awarded 60% merit-based tuition grant for my tuition fee in the diploma at LASALLE College of the Arts.

Individual Credits

Group Credits

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Other works

Works at Tusitala

Vinamilk Freelancing Gigs

Victoria Hertel Velasco website

trămđốt platform

Form & Agency exhibition website

Singapore Art Week 2023

LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

HIGHSCHOOL FOR THE GIFTED—VNUHCM

PRACTICE THEORY

THE LAB SAIGON

INTEL PRODUCTS VIETNAM

SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

– Proficient with the following Digital Softwares:

– Familiar with the following Digital Softwares:

– Technical Skills:

D&AD New Blood Academy

Google Developer Solution Challenge 2022

Google Developer Student Club - UIT

Project Vietnamme—a non-profit organisation dedicated to the relationship of young Vietnamese and the Arts.

Vietnamme Magazine—magazine.vietnamme.me, an online magazine dedicated to the contemporary arts in Vietnam.

Human Library Vietnam—a non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness to societal issues.

Project Sugar—a non-profit student-run organisation dedicated to underprivileged children

D&AD NEW BLOOD YELLOW PENCIL

RED DOT JUNIOR AWARD

CERTIFICATE OF TYPOGRAPHIC EXCELLENCE TDC67

LASALLE SCHOLARSHIP 2020-2021

LASALLE TUITION GRANT