LEE Jeon-hyoung is part of the first generation of VFX artists in Korean cinema. Majoring in industrial design from Kyunghee University, LEE Jeon-hyoung and three classmates founded their own visual effects company EON Design House (later renamed EON Digital Films) in 1995. Starting with <Father Vs. Son> and <Repechage> in 1997, he has contributed as a CG artist to many films of the late 1990s and early 2000s including <Attack The Gas Station!> (1999), <T...
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LEE Jeon-hyoung is part of the first generation of VFX artists in Korean cinema. Majoring in industrial design from Kyunghee University, LEE Jeon-hyoung and three classmates founded their own visual effects company EON Design House (later renamed EON Digital Films) in 1995. Starting with <Father Vs. Son> and <Repechage> in 1997, he has contributed as a CG artist to many films of the late 1990s and early 2000s including <Attack The Gas Station!> (1999), <The Warriors> (2000), <Public Enemy> (2001) and <Sword in the Moon> (2003). LEE and his studio gained international exposure and recognition for their work on PARK Chan-wook’s <Oldboy> (2003). LEE would be in charge of all of PARK’s films since then, from <Sympathy For Lady Vengeance> (2005) to <The Handmaiden> (2016). In 2008, LEE took the position of VFX supervisor at post-production services company AZWorks, which was backed by Busan Metropolitan Government in an attempt to establish a one-stop post-production complex in the city. LEE founded in 2009 a new visual effects post-house, 4th Creative Party, and worked as chief VFX supervisor on major commercial films including BONG Joon-ho’s <Mother> (2009) and RYOO Seung-wan’s <The Berlin File> (2012). He even made his way to the international market with PARK’s British-American film <Stoker> (2012) and BONG Joon-ho’s South Korean-Czech science fiction <Snowpiercer> (2013), soon followed by Luca GUADAGNINO’s Italian-French drama <A Bigger Splash> (2015). Following his acquisition in 2014 of AZWorks, which had since focused its business on CGI animation, LEE moved the headquarters of 4th Creative Party to Busan, bringing with him his college classmates and EON cofounders CHOI Jae-chun and HAN Young-woo. The studio made the headlines in 2015 for the creature of <The Tiger> (2015) entirely created in CGI and later won Best Visual Effects at the Chunsa Film Awards and the Grand Bell Awards. Since 2017, he has been particularly active in the Chinese market, having overseen visual effects for the historical romantic drama <Once Upon a Time> (2017) as well as fantasy epic adventure <Legend of the Ancient Sword> (2018) and blockbuster sci-fi film <The Three-Body Problem> (2018). His studio was also the first Korean company to make the short list for the Academy Award for visual effects, for <Okja> (2017). With more than 100 employees, LEE is currently aiming at expanding their business area into feature animation films, video games and 3D films through building up efficient pipelines for large-scale works.
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