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I think I had a vague idea of what that meant. I was working at Disney Studios and I was really immersed in that culture of character animation - that approach to “the illusion of life.” I knew at the time that, ultimately, I wanted to be a director. And then I acquired copies for myself and watched them over and over again on my own. I saw for the first time, I think, in one of those screenings. There used to be a group of fans who would trade tapes and they would hold screenings, and I used to attend them. The only way you could see Japanese animation in the early 1980s was: you had to get VHS tapes somehow from somebody who was taping them in Japan. Peter Chung: I first saw when it first came out, when it was airing in Japan, which I think was around 1982–83. Below, Chung tells us how it taught him what it means to be a director … Based on Buichi Terasawa’s manga Cobra, the series follows the exploits of a Bond-like spacefarer and his partner.

#AEON FLUX ANIME CHARACTERS MOVIE#

His choice is Space Adventure Cobra (1982–83, also known as Space Cobra), an anime series directed by Osamu Dezaki and Yoshio Takeuchi, and produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha (now TMS Entertaiment). Chung co-designed the characters in Nickelodeon’s Rugrats, and served as lead character designer on series including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Japanese-Korean production Reign: The Conqueror. He also directed Cartoon Network’s tv film Firebreather, for which he won an Emmy for character design, and the “Matriculated” segment in the Matrix spin-off The Animatrix. Peter Chung joins us for a galactic trip in this week’s edition of The Animation That Changed Me, a series in which leading artists discuss one work of animation that deeply influenced them.Ĭhung is well known as the creator of MTV’s Æon Flux.

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