Peter Chung

American animator and director 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). Early life and career 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. Directing credits In addition to Æon Flux (3 seasons: 1991, 1992, 1