Tommy Yune
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Tommy Yune is a Korean American comic book author who became known for his manga-style work on Speed Racer, which was followed by a comic industry revival of classic anime shows such as Transformers, Battle of the Planets and Robotech. His video game credits include FX Fighter, Robotech: Battlecry, and the award-winning The Journeyman Project series.
Yune first began in comics with the 1992 cult anthropomorphic series Buster the Amazing Bear and joined Jim Lee at Wildstorm Productions after a number of years as a video game designer. After writing and illustrating Speed Racer in 1999, he followed up with two more manga-style miniseries, Racer X and the shameless cheesecake romp Danger Girl: Kamikaze. His original Speed Racer run was also re-released in 2000 as the graphic novel titled Born to Race. Wildstorm continued the manga trend after being bought by DC Comics by starting up the CMX imprint to handle more manga and manhwa titles.
Yune's first work in feature animation was creating the computer-generated opening sequence of Kevin Altieri's Gen¹³. In 2001, he left Wildstorm to become creative director at Harmony Gold USA for the relaunch of Robotech [1]. He joined Steve Yun, the webmaster of the official Robotech webpage who is also his brother.[citation needed] He is one of the persons behind the story of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles and directed the movie[2].
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[edit] Filmography
- Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2006) - Director
- Robotech: Remastered Extended Edition (2003) - Opening and Episode Titles
- Gen¹³ (2000) - Opening Title Animation
[edit] Gameography
- Robotech: Invasion (2004) - Producer
- Robotech: Battlecry (2002) - Producer, Character Design
- The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time (1998) - Creative Director, Conceptual Design
- The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime (1997) - Conceptual Design, Special Effects
- FX Fighter (1995) - Character Design
- The Journeyman Project (1992) - Conceptual Design
[edit] Bibliography
- The Art of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2007)
- Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles (2005-06) - Story
- Robotech: Invasion (2004) - Story, Cover Art
- Robotech/Robotech: From the Stars (2002-03) - Story, Cover Art
- Danger Girl: Kamikaze (2001) - Story, Art
- Racer X (2000) - Story, Cover Art
- Superman Y2K (2000) - CG Art
- Speed Racer/Speed Racer: Born to Race (1999-2000) - Story, Art
- Buster the Amazing Bear (1992-1995) - Story, Art
[edit] Awards
- Book of the Month - August 1999 Wizard Magazine (Speed Racer)
- Award of excellence: technical & creative excellence - 1997 NewMedia Invision Awards (Journeyman Project 3)
- Gold medal: best overall design, animation - 1997 NewMedia Invision Awards (Journeyman Project 3)
- Silver medal: best animation, graphics - 1996 NewMedia Invision Awards (Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime)
- Finalist: best action/arcade software program - 1996 Codies Awards (FX Fighter)
- Gold medal: best animation, graphics - 1993 NewMedia Invision Awards (The Journeyman Project)
- Bronze medal: best production design - 1993 NewMedia Invision Awards (The Journeyman Project)
- Award of Excellence - 1991 Society for News Design (Orange County Register)
- 1st place: best graphics - 1990 California Newspaper Publishers Association (UCLA Daily Bruin)
- 2nd place: best graphics - 1989 California Newspaper Publishers Association (UCLA Daily Bruin)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Tommy Yune at the Internet Movie Database
- Tommy Yune at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Tommy Yune at MySpace
- PopImage interview
- Robotech.com profile
