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Nelson Shin

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Nelson Shin
신능균
申能均[1]
Born
Shin Neung-kyun

1939 (age 84–85)
NationalitySouth Korean
Occupation(s)Animation director, producer
Years active1970–present

Shin Neung-kyun (Korean신능균; RRSin Neunggyun; born 1939), also known as Nelson Shin, is a South Korean animation director who is the founder and president of Akom Production Co., Ltd., in Seoul, South Korea. He founded Akom in 1985.

Career

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In the 1970s, Shin worked as an animator at the DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and Marvel Productions, where he worked on the Pink Panther films and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. While at DFE, he also contributed to the animation of the lightsaber blades in the original Star Wars.[2]

Much of the animation Shin's studio has produced has been for American television series. Some of Akom's credits are: The Simpsons, Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men, Invasion America and Arthur. Shin's most well-known accomplishment is his direction of the television series The Transformers and The Transformers: The Movie.[3] Shin also directed the first season of the Canadian animated TV series, Toad Patrol.

Beginning in 1999, Shin worked on the animated feature film Empress Chung. The film was largely animated in North Korea, and in August 2005 became the first movie ever to open simultaneously in North and South Korea.

In 2009, he was elected president of the International Animated Film Association, a post he held through 2012.[4]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1974 The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat assistant animator
The Goose That Laid a Golden Egg animator
Heist and Seek
The Big House Ain't a Home
Mother Dogfather
Bows and Errors
Deviled Yeggs
1975 Watch the Birdie
Saltwater Tuffy
M-O-N-E-Y Spells Love
Rock-A-Bye Maybe
Haunting Dog
Eagle Beagles
Pink DaVinci
Pink Streaker
Salmon Pink
Goldilox & the Three Hoods
Pink Elephant
Keep Our Forests' Pink
Rockhounds
Bobolink Pink
It's Pink, But Is It Mink?
The Scarlet Pinkernel
1976 Sherlock Pink
Rocky Pink
1978 Pinktails for Two
Pink in the Woods
Pink Lightning
Pink Pictures
Cat and the Pinkstalk
Pink Daddy
The Pink of Bagdad
Pink Press
1986 The Transformers: The Movie director

co-producer

1994 The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure animation producer
1995 The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving animation producer
1996 The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists animation producer
2007 The Simpsons Movie animation producer

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1974 The Magical Mystery Trip Through Little Red's Head animator TV special
1975 The Hoober-Bloob Highway animator TV special
1977 My Mom's Having a Baby animator TV special
Bugs Bunny's Easter Special animator TV special
1978 Michel's Mixed-Up Musical Bird animator TV special
The Pink Panther in: A Pink Christmas animator TV special
1980 The Pink Panther in: Olym-Pinks animator TV special
Daffy Duck's Easter Show animator TV special
Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? animator TV special
1981 Dennis the Menace in Mayday for Mother director TV special
The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight sequence director

animator

TV special
1983 The Charmkins sequence director TV special

References

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  1. ^ "'배트맨·코난' 탄생시킨 세계 애니메이션 代父 '에이콤' 프러덕션 넬슨 申 회장, 《경향신문》, 1997.07.24". Naver News. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  2. ^ Kim, Myung; Jaffe, Sam (2010). "15: "Whither than North"". The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea's Economic Rise. p. 251.
  3. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/09/movies/screen-transformers-animation-for-children.html
  4. ^ Board Elects New Officials[permanent dead link]
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