Nelson Shin
{{short description|Animator}}
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| birth_name = Shin Neung-kyun
| native_name = 신능균
申能均{{Cite web|script-title=ko:'배트맨·코난' 탄생시킨 세계 애니메이션 代父 '에이콤' 프러덕션 넬슨 申 회장, 《경향신문》, 1997.07.24.|url=https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.naver?articleId=1997072400329112003&editNo=45&printCount=1&publishDate=1997-07-24&officeId=00032&pageNo=12&printNo=16168&publishType=00010|work=Kyunghyang Shinmun|via=Naver News|access-date=March 2, 2021}}
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1939}}
| birth_place = Heizan, Kōkai, Chōsen {{small|(nowadays Pyongsan, North Hwanghae, North Korea)}}
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| nationality = South Korean
| occupation = Animation director, producer
| years_active = 1970–present
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Shin Neung-kyun ({{Korean|hangul=신능균|rr=Sin 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
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.{{Cite book |title=The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea's Economic Rise |last1=Kim |first1=Myung |year=2010 |pages=251 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dxW3MKxCWDwC |last2=Jaffe |first2=Sam |chapter=15: "Whither than North"|publisher=AMACOM |isbn=978-0-8144-1490-3 }}
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.{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/09/movies/screen-transformers-animation-for-children.html | title=SCREEN: 'TRANSFORMERS,' ANIMATION FOR CHILDREN (Published 1986) | website=The New York Times | date=9 August 1986 | access-date=6 October 2024 | archive-date=9 October 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009135424/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/09/movies/screen-transformers-animation-for-children.html | url-status=live }} 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.[https://asifa.net/asifa-wp/category/international-news/page/3/ASIFA Board Elects New Officials]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Filmography
=Film=
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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |
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| rowspan="7" |1974
|The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat |assistant animator | |
| The Goose That Laid a Golden Egg
| rowspan="32" |animator | |
| Heist and Seek
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| The Big House Ain't a Home
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| Mother Dogfather
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| Bows and Errors
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| Deviled Yeggs
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| rowspan="16" |1975
|Watch the Birdie | |
| Saltwater Tuffy
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| M-O-N-E-Y Spells Love
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| Rock-A-Bye Maybe
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| Haunting Dog
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| Eagle Beagles
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| Pink DaVinci
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| Pink Streaker
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| Salmon Pink
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| Goldilox & the Three Hoods
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| Pink Elephant
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| Keep Our Forests' Pink
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| Rockhounds
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| Bobolink Pink
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| It's Pink, But Is It Mink?
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| The Scarlet Pinkernel
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| rowspan="2" |1976
|Sherlock Pink | |
| Rocky Pink
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| rowspan="8" |1978
|Pinktails for Two | |
| Pink in the Woods
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| Pink Lightning
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| Pink Pictures
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| Cat and the Pinkstalk
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| Pink Daddy
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| The Pink of Bagdad
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| Pink Press
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| 1986
|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
|animation producer | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |
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| 1974
|The Magical Mystery Trip Through Little Red's Head |animator |TV special |
| 1975
|animator |TV special |
| rowspan="2" |1977
|animator |TV special |
| Bugs Bunny's Easter Special
|animator |TV special |
| rowspan="2" |1978
|Michel's Mixed-Up Musical Bird |animator |TV special |
| The Pink Panther in: A Pink Christmas
|animator |TV special |
| rowspan="3" |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 |
| rowspan="2" |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
|sequence director |TV special |
References
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External links
- [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/05/content_421986.htm "'The Simpsons' Made in South Korea"], China Daily, March 5, 2005.
- {{IMDb name|0793802}}
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Category:People from North Hwanghae Province
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Category:South Korean animated film directors
Category:South Korean people of North Korean origin
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