Jeong Seongjin, born in 1972, graduated in Industrial Design before entering the incipient VFX industry in 1996, learning computer graphics under VFX supervisor Park Kwanwoo, who has been in charge of the earliest Korean films with visual effects, <The Fox with Nine Tails> (1994) and <The Ginko Bed> (1995). After working with Park for a few years and receiving his first credit in <Ghost In Love> (1999), Jeong co-founded the VFX company EON Digital Films with...
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Jeong Seongjin, born in 1972, graduated in Industrial Design before entering the incipient VFX industry in 1996, learning computer graphics under VFX supervisor Park Kwanwoo, who has been in charge of the earliest Korean films with visual effects, <The Fox with Nine Tails> (1994) and <The Ginko Bed> (1995). After working with Park for a few years and receiving his first credit in <Ghost In Love> (1999), Jeong co-founded the VFX company EON Digital Films with his colleagues Choi Jaechun and Han Youngwoo. As a technical director, he contributed to 74 projects over the course of the next decade, including titles such as <Oldboy> (2003), <Crying Fist> (2005), <The Host> (2006), <I’m a Cyborg but That’s OK> (2006) and <A Frozen Flower> (2008) among others. Late in the 2000s, Jeong took on management responsibilities for the entire VFX process, being credited as Executive Visual Effects Supervisor in Kim Yonghwa’s ski jump drama <Take Off> (2009), with which he won the Grand Bell Award for the technical achievement. In 2010, EON merged with two its two main competitors, DTI and Insight Visual, under a new company named Digital IDEA. After two years working for major box office hits including <The Man from Nowhere> (2010) and <Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon> (2011), Jeong joined hands with blockbuster film director Kim Yonghwa to found Dexter Studio, a postproduction house specifically created to meet the needs of the director’s next project <Mr. Go> (2013), which notably featured a CGI-generated gorilla as the titular character. In order to create and animate the gorilla, Dexter Studio devised an in-house software called Zelos. Jeong has also been in charge of the management process for the visual effects in Chinese films such as Tsui Hark’s <Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon> (2013) and <The Taking of Tiger Mountain> (2014), as well as the huge box office hit <The Monkey King> (2014). After he was credited as executive director of visual effects or VFX supervisor for some of the most important Korean films of the last decade, such as <Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds> (2017), <1987: When the Day Comes> (2017) and <PARASITE> (2019), he left Dexter Studio in 2020 to set up a new VFX company, M83 Studio, with Kim Joonhyoung and Baek Kyungsoo. Under this new brand, he was in charge of supervising the CGI for the Netflix sci-fi <SPACE SWEEPERS> (2021), for which he received several awards, as well as the drama series <Vincenzo> (2021) and the historical epic <Hansan: Rising Dragon> (2021)
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