Peter Kunshik Chung born April 19 1961 in Seoul, South Korea, is a Korean American animator. He is best known for his unique style of animation, 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. Chung started his animation career at a small animation studio in Maryland at age 18, working for animator and illustrator Dominic LoPiccolo. 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. After working for Disney Chung wanted to escape the way almost all animation were shown with a beginning a middle and an end, and the good guy always comes out on top. The Æon Flux TV series banished the 'Disney' style animation story telling and headed in a completely different direction. When I first watched it I was completely lost the story didn't start at the begging of the story line, I felt completely lost though this style encourages you to continue watching the services and try to unscramble the mess you have been left with. What shocked me was when the main character died I was sure she would make it but, no!
The style of the animation was to try and heighten the senses like the character Æon Flux, thought smell and taste can't be used littarly the animation creates these senses in the sometimes gory drawing. Whilst watching It there were points I could really imagain the smell of some of the scenes, nothing was flowery or covered as it might and is with 'Disney' animations.
Chung worked on the animation series the Rugrats and he says that Æon Flux was born from him being board with small creatures that have one point of view and have very little movement. Æon Flux is the oposite end of the scale to the Rugrats take that from someone who has watched both. There are simalaraties to me, with the style of the drawings but i would think that is Chungs style of drawing, and in my option suits both. Æon Flux is acrobatic defing the laws gravity where as the rugrats nothing realy happens and each story ends and another begins without any relation between episodes.
The way Chung went as i would say in a compleatly different direction is somthing I want to try and accomplish in my work, not to make things difficult but hopeful to help them stand out for what is expected
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