Peter Chung
Peter Kunshik Chung (born April 19, 1961 in Seoul, South Korea, as 정근식 (Cheong Geun-Sik)[1]) is a Korean American animator. He is best known as the creator and director of Æon Flux, which ran as shorts on MTV's Liquid Television before launching as its own half-hour television series. He studied animation at CalArts.
Chung's directing credits include the Matriculated segment from The Animatrix, and, most recently, The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury. Chung served as lead character designer for two animated series, Phantom 2040 and Reign: The Conqueror. Both series 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, as well as directed the pilot for this series, "Tommy Pickles And The Great White Thing".
Chung's animation, particularly Æon Flux and Matriculated, tends toward the artistically and thematically experimental and is an example of progressive animation. Chung's stylistic influences uniquely include European expressionism such as Moebius combined with Japanese animation. Currently, among other unannounced projects, he is working on new direct-to-video episodes of Æon Flux and a full-length animated feature entitled Luvula. In addition, it is announced that he will be directing a three-part episode for GameTaps' Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider.
Peter Chung was married in 2005.
Quotes
- "For me, a degree of ambiguity, or mystery, is the key ingredient of any artistic statement."
- "I often remind myself that animation is the creation of the illusion of spontaneity. Because nothing is in fact less spontaneous than the process of animating."
- "The task of the animator, to breathe life into his characters, requires concentration akin to that of an actor whose performance has been entirely scripted down."
See also
Filmography
- Æon Flux (film) (2005) (film) - Characters (from TV series)
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004) (OVA) - Director, Character designer
- Matriculated (2003) (short) (segment of The Animatrix) - Director, Script, Design
- Party 7 (2000) (film) - Animator: credit sequence
- The Rugrats Movie (1998) (film) - Storyboards
- Alexander Senki (1997) aka Alexander (International) and Reign: The Conqueror (USA) (film) (OVA) - Character designer
- Last Man Standing (1996/II) (film), Production assistant: second unit
- Æon Flux (1995) (TV series) - Director, Producer, Scripts, Character design
- Phantom 2040 (1994) (TV series) - Character design
- Rugrats (1991) (TV series) - Animator: main title animation, pilot
- C.O.P.S. (animated TV series) (1988) - Character design, Opening title direction, Overseas animation supervision
- Ring Raiders (1989)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) (TV Series) - Art direction, Opening title design
- Transformers: The Movie (1986) (film) - Storyboard artist
- Transformers (1984) (TV Series) - Storyboard artist
- Fire and Ice (1983) (film) - Animator, Layout artist
External links
- Peter Chung at IMDb
- Another interview with Chung. Done between the release of The Animatrix and Dark Fury.
- 'Aeon Flux's', Peter Chung
- Onion A.V. Club Interview. April 30th, 2003.
- "The State of Visual Narrative in Film and Comics", an article by Chung. Animation World Magazine, Issue 3.4, July 1998.
- Peter Chung at Acme Filmworks
- CATSUKA - Peter Chung Detailed work history, as well as illustrations and videos of Chung's work. Template:Fr icon
- La Cinémathèque de Toulouse - Colloque Template:Fr icon