Nelson Shin

Nelson Shin
신능균 申能均
Born	Shin Neung-kyun 1939 (age 84–85) Pyongsan, Kōkai-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan (now Pyongsan, North Hwanghae, North Korea)
Nationality	South Korean
Occupation(s)	Animation director, producer
Years active	1970–present

Shin Neung-kyun (Korean: 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.

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. 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.

Filmography

Film

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

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

External links

• "'The Simpsons' Made in South Korea", China Daily, March 5, 2005.
• Nelson Shin at IMDb