Jin Kim (,
Korean name
Korean names are names that place their origin in, or are used in, Korea. A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist. For full names, ...
: Kim Sang-jin) is a South Korean animator and character designer best known for his work at
Walt Disney Animation Studios
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from 1995–2016.
He was the first Korean animator to work for Disney.
Kim has red-green
color blindness
Color blindness, color vision deficiency (CVD) or color deficiency is the decreased ability to color vision, see color or differences in color. The severity of color blindness ranges from mostly unnoticeable to full absence of color percept ...
.
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 Sung-ho, 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 three-year 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 Studio
Shanghai Pearl Studio Film and Television Technology Co., Ltd, doing business as Pearl Studio, formerly known as Oriental DreamWorks, the trade name of Shanghai Oriental DreamWorks Film & Television Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese animation f ...
/
Netflix
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's film, ''Over the Moon'', which was directed by fellow Disney animator
Glen Keane
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.
As of August 2019, Kim had joined a new project at Disney.
He worked on both ''Raya and the Last Dragon'' and ''Encanto''.
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South Korean animators
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Hanna-Barbera people
South Korean storyboard artists