Peter Chung

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. 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 the age of 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.

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. 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. 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, including a Diet Pepsi advertisement featuring Cindy Crawford and Malcolm McDowell. As of 2009, 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. Chung has also expressed interest in creating a new direct-to-video animated feature of Æon Flux.

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

Fire and Ice (1983) (film) - Animator, layout artist The Transformers (1984) (TV series) - Storyboard artist The Transformers: The Movie (1986) (film) - Storyboard artist Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) (TV series) - Art direction, opening title design C.O.P.S. (1988) (TV series) - Character design, opening title direction, overseas animation supervision Ring Raiders (1989) (TV series) - Character design Rugrats (1991) (TV series) - Animator: main title animation, pilot, character design Phantom 2040 (1994) (TV series) - Character design Æon Flux (1995) (TV series) - Creator, director, producer, scripts, character design The Rugrats Movie (1998) (film) - Storyboards Alexander Senki (1999) aka Alexander the Great (international) and Reign: The Conqueror (USA) (TV series) - Character design and original design Party 7 (2000) (film) - Animator: credit sequence The Animatrix – "Matriculated" (2003) (short) - Director, script, design The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004) (OVA) - Director, character designer Revisioned: Tomb Raider (2007) (web series) (first episode which is split into 3 parts) - Director, script, design Firebreather (2010) (film) - Director Diablo III: Wrath (2012) (film) - Director Victor & Valentino (2019) (TV series) - Main title

University of Michigan presentation October 5, 2006. Interview with Peter Chung by Ed Stastny Suicide Girls interview Animation Arena Interview. Done between the release of The Animatrix and Dark Fury. Bright Lights Film interview Barnes & Noble interview LJ monican spies interview January 4, 2006. Aesthetics in Flux: A Conversation with Peter Chung - Former People February 28, 2014 The Collective Podcast, Episode 134 — Peter Chung August 15, 2016 – 2 hours, 22 mins