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Peter Chung

ピーター・チョン　/　ぴーたー・ちょん

Film director from South Korea

April 19, 1961 (age 65)　・　Seoul, South Korea

film director
animator
screenwriter

My Take

Peter Chung is one of those creators whose style I'd recognize in a single frame. Born in Seoul and trained at CalArts, he built Aeon Flux into something genuinely strange, all elongated bodies, kinetic violence, and a refusal to spell things out. I respect that he trusts viewers to keep up. His Matriculated segment for The Animatrix and his character designs for Reign: The Conqueror show the same instinct: animation as a place to push form rather than play it safe. He never became a household name, and honestly that tracks. His work is too uncompromising for the mainstream, which is exactly why the people who love it love it so fiercely.

Overview

Peter Chung is an American animator and director. He is best known for his unique style of animation, as well as for being the creator and director of Æon Flux, his work on the Matriculated episode of The Animatrix, and for his character design for Reign: The Conqueror (Alexander Senki).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Peter Chung
Name (Japanese): ピーター・チョン
Reading: ぴーたー・ちょん
Born: April 19, 1961 (age 65)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Ox
Origin: Seoul, South Korea
Blood type: Private
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Occupation: film director / animator / screenwriter / film screenwriter / character designer

2. Background

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3. Relationships

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4. Personality

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3

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