Animation by Peter Chung

After studying animation at university, Peter Chung went on to work as a layout and storyboard artist on a range of  children TV series such as Rugrats, Ring Raiders, and Transformers. However Peter Chung felt limited to what he could create due to it being aimed at children, so he began to create his own animation series 'Aeon Flux' that was aired on late night television for MTV that gave him the opportunity to visually portray what he wanted due to having an older target audience.  

https://deecrowseer.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/flummoxed-by-flux/

Originally they began as a short five minute series of animation without dialogue, as Peter Chung wanted the animation to be visually communicated in its purest form, giving viewers the freedom to insinuate what the character speaks like and sounds, due to her seductive appearance. The series oozed with sexuality and violence, which is a complete contrast to what he originally illustrated for children's TV series. The female character 'Aeon Flux' was a self motivated spy, where in the series you are introduced to the character in the middle of action or near the end of Aeon Flux's mission, which completely broke the conventional three act structure rule. However by starting where the action is taking place and the character is trying to overcome and obstacle or resolve a situation makes you concentrate extremely, trying to interpret the storyline of what her motivation is, and caught up in the suspense of violence. Another rule Peter Chung broke in his 5 minutes series, was the Character died at the end of every series, which is very unconventional as usually the main character survives each episode. The appearance of Aeon Flux was dressed to purposely seduce the viewers to keep them watching. 

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Eventually the series developed into 22 minute episodes that contained dialogue to help enrich the experience for viewers, where Aeon Flux survived each episode. Peter Chung's main intention for each series was to gain an emotional response from viewers when looking at the animation, as he didn't want viewers to just look at it, he wanted the public to feel involved. 

Overall I feel Peter Chung had such a fascinating approach towards animation, due to breaking the rules, it made his work fresh.  By being given this lecture on animation, it demonstrated the power of visual communication, as there's weeks worth of illustrations to develop the characters style, environment, and character. This lecture has influenced me to pursue practice of drawing, to help develop my drawing skills further, as this will enable me to become a better visual communicator.