![]() ![]() 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. Ĭhung 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. Ralph Bakshi, one of the first to hire Chung, has stated that one of Chung's favorite artists is Toulouse-Lautrec. In the animation field, he admires Yoshinori Kanada, Koji Morimoto, and Igor Kovalyov. ![]() Ĭhung's animation, particularly Æon Flux and Matriculated, tends toward the artistically and thematically experimental. 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. 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 names in his influences expressionist Egon Schiele and comic artist Moebius. Animation style and influences Ĭhung 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. ![]() Chung has also expressed interest in creating a new direct-to-video animated feature of Æon Flux. He is also director of the television adaption of Firebreather for Cartoon Network. 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.Īs of 2009, among other unannounced projects, he was working on a full-length animated feature entitled Luvula. In addition, in 2007 he directed the opening three-part episode for GameTaps' Revisioned: Tomb Raider, entitled "Keys to the Kingdom". 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. The designs feature lean angular characters inspired by the art of Egon Schiele, a look which has become Chung's trademark character design. Chung served as lead character designer for the animated series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), C.O.P.S. 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. 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. From there at age 19 he was designing characters for Hanna-Barbera. 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.Ĭhung started his animation career at a small animation studio in Maryland at age 18, working for animator and illustrator Salvador Bru. His parents then immigrated to the United States he lived in McLean, Virginia. 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. 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 (born April 19, 1961) is a Korean American animator.
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