Jin Kim

Jin Kim Korean 김상진 Korean name Kim Sangjin is a South Korean animator and character designer best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios from 19952016 He was the first Korean animator to work for Disney Kim has redgreen color blindness Due to Korean college admissions policies at the time he was unable to get into art school and ended up majoring in economics in college Regardless he persisted in developing his drawing skills and was eventually able to embark on a career as an animator In 2016 Hong Sungho president of Locus Studios persuaded Kim to return to South Korea to work as executive creative director of the Korean feature animated film Red Shoes which premiered in July 2019 According to Hong at that time Kim had been left with nothing new to design because Disney was then focused on developing sequels rather than entirely new films Kim was also happy to work with an animation team in the Korean language for the first time since a threeyear period in the South Korean animation industry at the beginning of his career In May 2018 Kim returned to Los Angeles to work on Pearl StudioNetflixs film Over the Moon which was directed by fellow Disney animator Glen Keane As of August 2019 Kim had joined a new project at Disney He worked on both Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto Description above from the Wikipedia article Jin Kim licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia