Jinny(HyeJin) CHOO

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Computer Animation Festival Chair | SIGGRAPH Asia 2010

 

Lecturer, Programmer

 

Jinny is an Animation Artist and Producer at ONCOMM. She has been spending three years in academia teachinganimation and its related fields at Korea National University of Arts and other institutes.

 

After making her first short animated film in 1999, Jinny started her career as a freelance illustrator and animation artist. She has also joined several animated film festivals including SICAF(Seoul International Cartoon & Animation) from 2003 to 2008 and PISAF (Puchon International Student Animation Festival) from 2000 to 2002 in Korea as a programmer and manager. She has also been invited either as ajury or as part of the selection committee at the Stuttgart Animation Film Festival in Germany, CICDAF in China, CINDI in Korea and the SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival, among others. Jinny is a regular contributor to several animation magazines and the AniDB of Korean Film Archive.

 

At present, Jinny is involved in GISF (Gwacheon International SF Festival) and Indie-AniFest in Korea as a programmer. This is the second time that Jinny is the chair for the Computer Animation Festival at SIGGRAPH ASIA, having held the role in 2008 when SIGGRAPH Asia was held in Singapore.