Stories in motion.
Visuals in real time.
Bridging the gap between traditional 3D animation and emerging technologies. From shaping global classrooms and award-winning short films to engineering immersive, real-time electronic visuals that bring the screen into the space.
Selected Short Films
01 — SHORT FILMSThe 800 Baht Foundation
Veune and Leck fled Laos in 1980 and stretched 800 baht — about $25 — into a bamboo hut and a new life across three years in a Thai refugee camp. A continuation of The Revisited Journey (2004), told in their own words: 5:21, in Lao with English subtitles.
View details →The Life of Kanadian Karate Kid
An animated short blending hand-drawn character work with dimensional set pieces to tell a coming-of-age story on its own terms.
View details →Family Trees
An augmented-reality short that lets lineage grow into the viewer’s own room, treating AR as narrative space rather than a gimmick.
View details →Toys & Singing
A hand-animated short built around rhythm and object play — early proof of the timing instincts now driving the live VJ work.
View details →Buffalo Wings
Made collaboratively in workshop with students, this short doubles as a teaching artifact for frame-by-frame fundamentals.
View details →Dance Universe
A 3D performance-animation piece choreographed to music — the earliest throughline to the current VJ practice.
View details →Land of Smiles
A fully dimensional short exploring warmth and texture in 3D animation, built frame by frame over a solo production cycle.
View details →- Space Junk 2018
- Flower Man 2016
- Lovely Land of Laos 2016
- Parking God 2015
- Air Miles 2014
- The Perfect Lover 2014
- World’s Next Top Superhero 2015
- Tuk Tuk Ride 2017
- Chasing Grasshoppers 2013
- Dance World 2015
- Dance Pro 2014
- Touch-Free 2013
- Junkboxx 2012
- Death to the Different 2010
- Winston’s Shuttle 2006
VJ Animation
Pixade’s frame-by-frame instincts, pointed at a live room instead of a fixed cut. Original loops, character motion and generative textures performed in real time and synced to a set — built the same way the short films are: by hand, with intent, one layer at a time.
Watch the showreel for a look at the visuals in motion, synced to a live set.
Presentations
03 — TALKS & PRESENTATIONSInvited talks, keynotes & conference presentations
A parallel practice of teaching and public presentation — sharing process and technique alongside the finished films, from festival keynotes to university lectures across five continents.
2007 – 2026 View all presentations →About
Director · Producer · VJ · Associate Professor
Peter Chanthanakone is a Canadian award-winning animator and director. His computer-animated short films have screened in over 75 international juried competitions across 30+ countries on every continent — including a retrospective at Italy’s VIEW Animation Video Festival and a giant-screen selection in Times Square at the NYC International Film Festival.
He is a jury member for Siggraph Asia, an officer for the Society of Animation Studies, and director/producer at RiFF Animation Studio in Bangkok. Peter currently serves as Associate Professor in 3D Animation at Zayed University in Dubai, and moonlights as a VJ — animating live visuals for international DJs and producers from the USA to Japan to Thailand.