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Seung-Eun Kim (; born July 17, 1974) is an American artist, director and animator. He is a two-time Emmy nominee and won in 2006, and three-time Annie Award nominee. Kim has worked in animation since 1996.


Career

Highlights of his career include: *
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animation, story board/clean-up artist, 1997 * ''
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'', story board artist, 1998 * ''
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'', story board artist and director, 1998 * The
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, director, 2000 * The Batman TV Series, director, 2003–2005, nominated for two Annie Awards and two-time and won and Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program in 2006. * ''
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'', supervising director, 2005–2008 Kim has also directed/animated the main titles of:
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cartoon, 1997 and ''
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'', 1998 Kim's talents extend far beyond animation. He has done award-winning work in sculpture and comic book art, most notably work on the '' Hellboy: Weird Tales'' comic. Most recently he worked on the television show ''The Boondocks'', where his directing credits include the following episodes: *" The Story of Gangstalicious" *" A Huey Freeman Christmas" *" Let's Nab Oprah" *" Wingmen" *" ...Or Die Trying" *" Tom, Sarah and Usher" *"
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" *" Stinkmeaner Strikes Back" *" The Story of Thugnificent" *" Attack of the Killer Kung-Fu Wolf Bitch" *" The Story of Gangstalicious 2" *" The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show" Kim's latest work includes a reimagining of the
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Monkey King story called ''Battle Earth: Return of the Monkey King!''.


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* * 1976 births Living people Korean television directors {{tv-director-stub