Peter Chung

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Peter Chung was born in Seoul, South Korea on April 19th, 1961 and is the Director. At the age of 62, Peter Chung biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
April 19, 1961
Nationality
United States, South Korea
Place of Birth
Seoul, South Korea
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62 years old
Zodiac Sign
Aries
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Animator, Film Director, Screenwriter
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Peter Chung Life

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 On Flux and Reign: The Conqueror (Alexander Senki).

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Peter Chung Career

Early life and career

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 immigrated to the United States; he died in McLean, Virginia. Chung studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), from 1979 to 1981, one year on the Character Animation department, and another year in Experimental Animation.

At the age of 18, Chung began his animation career at a small animation studio in Maryland, working with animator and illustrator Salvador Bru. He started designing Hanna-Barbera characters at the age 19 years old. Around this time, he began assisting with the layout and animation on Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice before being hired by Disney for feature development.

Chung's film credits include the Matriculated segment from The Animatrix and The Chronicles of Riddick: The Dark Fury, in addition to On Flux (3 seasons: 1991, 1992, 1995). Chung was the lead character designer for the animated film 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 influenced by Egon Schiele's art, a look at what has become Chung's signature character design. He co-designed the characters in the Nickelodeon series Rugrats, as well as Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo, as well as the opening sequence. In addition, he directed GameTaps' Revisioned: Tomb Raider's opening three-part episode in 2007, titled "Keys to the Kingdom."

In addition, he has produced several television commercials, including one starring Cindy Crawford and Malcolm McDowell from Acme Filmworks in Peter Chung.

He was currently working on Luvula, a full-length animated film, as of 2009, one of many unannounced projects. He is also the producer of the Firebreather television series for Cartoon Network. Mr. Chung has also expressed interest in constructing a new direct-to-video animated version of on Flux.'

Chung's influence includes Japanese animation, German expressionism, and European comics, in particular the illustrative quality of the art, rather than numerous surface details. Egon Schiele, the expressionist, and Moebius, a comic artist, are among his influences. Kazuo Umezu, Sanpei Shirato, Osamu Tezuka, Jack Kirby, Moebius, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Schuiten and Peeters, Silvio Cadelo, Tatsuya Egawa, Geof Darrow, and Frank Miller as a result of his narrative power. In addition, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, Jean Cocteau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Horst Janssen, and Frank Lloyd Wright are among his influences.

The animation by Chung, particularly On Flux and Matriculated, tends toward the experimental and artistic.

Yoshinori Kanada, Koji Morimoto, and Igor Kovalyov are all favorites in the animation field.

Ralph Bakshi, one of the first to hire Chung, has revealed that Toulouse-Lautrec is one of Chung's top performers.

Chung was one of the many artists involved in Mayfair Games' Underground roleplaying (1993), and Shannon Appelcline believed that Aeon Flux "was a significant influence" on the game.

In a chat with Victor & Valentino's founder, Diego Molano, in April 2019, he was intrigued with Aeon Flux in Chung and how he uses movement to tell a tale even without dialogue. He even halted the show and stuck tracing paper over Chung's sketches before selling them at school, showing how Chung's style inspired him. Chung would be the animation director on Victor & Valentino later this year, which Molano was "deeply grateful for."

Chung has also been a participant in online forums, where customers have questioned him about his work and creative process. ILX and Monican Spies are two of the most popular forums.

Chung teaches a Master Class at the USC School of Cinematic Arts' Division of Animation and Digital Arts, which began in Spring 2013.

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