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Peter Chung (Jeong Geun-Sik (정근식)) was born on 19 April, 1961 in Seoul, South Korea, is a Korean–American animator. Discover Peter Chung's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

Popular As Jeong Geun-Sik (정근식)
Occupation Animator
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 19 April, 1961
Birthday 19 April
Birthplace Seoul, South Korea
Nationality South Korea

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1961

Peter Chung (born April 19, 1961) is a Korean American animator.

He is best known for his unique style of animation, as the creator and director of Æon Flux and Reign: The Conqueror (Alexander Senki).

Peter Chung was born on April 19, 1961.

Since his father was in the foreign service of the Republic of Korea, he has lived in Seoul, London, Nairobi, Washington, D.C., New York and Tunis.

His parents then immigrated to the United States; he lived in McLean, Virginia.

1979

Chung studied animation at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from 1979 to 1981, one year at the Character Animation program, and another year in the program in Experimental Animation.

Chung started his animation career at a small animation studio in Maryland at age 18, working for animator and illustrator Salvador Bru.

From there at age 19 he was designing characters for Hanna-Barbera.

About this time he also started working on the layout and animation on Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice before being hired by Disney for feature development.

1987

Chung served as lead character designer for the animated series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), C.O.P.S. (1988) Phantom 2040 (1994–1996) and Reign: The Conqueror (1999).

The designs feature lean angular characters inspired by the art of Egon Schiele, a look which has become Chung's trademark character design.

He also, along with Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo, co-designed the characters in the Nickelodeon series Rugrats, and co-directed its pilot, "Tommy Pickles and The Great White Thing" and the opening sequence.

1991

In addition to Æon Flux (3 seasons: 1991, 1992, 1995), Chung's directing credits include the Matriculated segment from The Animatrix, and The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury.

1993

Chung was one of the artists working on the Underground roleplaying game (1993) from Mayfair Games, and author Shannon Appelcline felt that Aeon Flux "was a clear influence" on the game.

2007

In addition, in 2007 he directed the opening three-part episode for GameTaps' Revisioned: Tomb Raider, entitled "Keys to the Kingdom".

He has also directed some television advertisements – available at Peter Chung at Acme Filmworks – including a Diet Pepsi advertisement featuring Cindy Crawford and Malcolm McDowell.

, among other unannounced projects, he was working on a full-length animated feature entitled Luvula.

He is also director of the television adaption of Firebreather for Cartoon Network.

Mr. Chung has also expressed interest in creating a new direct-to-video animated feature of Æon Flux.

Chung names Japanese animation, German expressionism and European comics as his influence, in particular the illustrative quality of the art that depends on expressive drawings instead of many surface details.

He names in his influences expressionist Egon Schiele and comic artist Moebius.

As narrative influence he names Kazuo Umezu, Sanpei Shirato, Osamu Tezuka, Jack Kirby, Moebius, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Schuiten and Peeters, Silvio Cadelo, Tatsuya Egawa, Geof Darrow and Frank Miller.

He also names as influences, in no special order: David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, Jean Cocteau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Seijun Suzuki, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Yoshinori Kanada, Horst Janssen, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Chung's animation, particularly Æon Flux and Matriculated, tends toward the artistically and thematically experimental.

In the animation field, he admires Yoshinori Kanada, Koji Morimoto, and Igor Kovalyov.

Ralph Bakshi, one of the first to hire Chung, has stated that one of Chung's favorite artists is Toulouse-Lautrec.

2013

Chung currently teaches a Master Class at the Division of Animation and Digital Arts at the USC School of Cinematic Arts since Spring 2013.

2019

In an April 2019 interview with Diego Molano, creator of Victor & Valentino, he said that he was fascinated with Chung's Aeon Flux and how he uses movement to tell a story even without dialogue.

He even paused the show and put tracing paper over Chung's drawings, and then sold them at school, showing how Chung's style influenced him.

Later, Chung would become the animation director on Victor & Valentino, which Molano was "greatly thankful for."

Chung has also been a participant in online forums, where users have asked him about his work and creative process.

Two of the more prominent forums are ILX and Monican Spies.