Peter Chung

Trainwreck Interview

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Ms. Steele

As long as we're referencing Mario Bava, here's what happens when I add the words 'starring Barbara Steele" to the prompt.

AF by Stable Diffusion 2

As a child of the 60s, the vintage Mario Bava vibe of these posters is thoroughly delightful. Swapping out a few words in the prompt pushed the style in a number of unexpected directions, like 1970s Metal Hurlant cover art to a black coiffed Charlize.

There's a relief in not bearing responsibility for the AI's output, and I can foresee th...

AF by Stable Diffusion

A.I. art generation has been making me a bit crazy. It's exciting, scary and addictive.

Some fanmade models of Aeon exist. For myself, using AI to generate images that look like my own drawings is pretty pointless, so I didn't use them. The pleasure of AI art is in the novelty of the unexpected. I seek out the work of artists always with t...

Podcast 40 - Diego Molano

Diego created Victor and Valentino, which ran for three seasons on Cartoon Network. I started working on the show when he asked me to design the opening title sequence. I stayed on as the timing supervisor, then wrote and directed an episode for the third season. We talk about his experience developing, pitching and show running an orig...

Podcast 39 - Robert Valley - Part 2

The second part of my dialogue with Robert Valley. He was busy finishing his third Love Death and Robots episode for the upcoming season. He couldn't say much about it, and we turn to talking about our approaches to directing. I end up relating a lot of what you've heard me say in my teaching talks. This is a good example of the ki...

Podcast 38 - Aesthetic Bliss - Student Work

Apologies for the low frequency of posts. I am trying to schedule interviews with new guests to cover a wider range of topics going forward. For now, I am sharing the recording of week 11 of my directing course. The topic is aesthetic bliss, a principle strangely neglected in a lot of the work of beginning filmmakers. Too many animated shorts, b...

Too Late - Unwarranted Speculation

A short clip from week 4's class where I follow up on the previous discussion on the problem of knowing the difference between justified and unjustified readings of an image. It turns out to be a very common problem among students that they often expect viewers to read the artist's mind without making the effort to put their intentions on the sc...

Too Late by William Lindsay Windus (1859)

Supplement to Podcast 37

Podcast 37 - 2023 Directing Masterclass - Film Form

Sorry about the delay. Robert Valley and I have been unable to find time again to record this week. I'm posting week 3's discussion from the 2023 Projectcity Directing Masterclass. Each edition of the course covers the same material, but due to the make up of the students and my own need to keep things fresh, I try out different clips and ways o...

Podcast 36 - Storyboards

While I'm looking for a chance to talk to Robert again, I am sharing a portion of week 8 of the Pilot class. I show examples of my storyboarding process to the class using examples from two projects, Battlemaster Sparkletime for Nickelodeon and the unused sequence from Kung Fu Panda 3 for Dreamworks. I apologize for the quality...

Vesper - Concept Art by Tom McClure

Tom McClure is a brilliant designer and illustrator with whom I've had the pleasure to work on many projects over the years, beginning with his contributions to the second LTV series of Æon Flux shorts. Other projects we've collaborated on include the Diablo 3: Wrath short for Blizzard and Firebreather for Cartoon Network.

Vesper - visual development

Concept art for the new original series for which this Patreon was started. Art is from 2021. Since then, a number of changes have been made, including the title. It's a work in progress. 

My strategy at present is to let this wait while I focus on launching another new series that's more modest in scope. I believe the means to produc...

Terrapins - Layouts and Storyboards

More concept art, storyboards, layouts and roughs for the unfinished short Terrapins. This post includes previously shared drawings plus layouts and storyboards for patrons with an interest in the  creative and technical process.  

Earlier post:

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Levi's Edward (self portrait) posters

I have a small supply of these in-store color posters which accompanied the Levi's commercial campaign. I will include one poster with your art packages (500 credits +) while the supply lasts.

A small additional shipping charge will apply.

Originals for Patrons

Based on response to my posts, I am offering items from my archives such as studies, sketches, various thumbnail roughs and a few final cleaned up pencils. Once digital delivery became standard, I've been scanning my clean pencils into photoshop to do the final color and compositing. 

The items are arranged in folders according to the...

Podcast 35 - Robert Valley Part 1

Robert Valley and I go back a long way, but don't have many opportunities to talk at length. This time too, was cut short unfortunately, but it got a dialogue started which will be the first of a series. It's recommended to view his two episodes of Love, Death and Robots, Zima Blue and Ice before listening.

Directors refe...

AF production rough keys and sketches

Scans - MTV Loaded, Misono, Underground, Tomb Raider Revisioned, Velvet Assassin

Alexander - Reign the Conqueror - scans

On paid jobs, before digital delivery became standard, the original final work was always given over to the client. The only originals I get to keep are the preliminaries and unused drawings. I never considered myself an illustrator, as I don't have the temperament to spend time on finishing clean art. Most animators prefer to produce a lot of r...

Original pencils

More scans from my archives. These are items I will offer in the next catalog. Some of these are the first sketches for illustrations, a few layouts used in production, costume concept drawings and various sketches and studies. Let me know if the rough pencil sketches are of interest. I have many I have yet to scan. I can price some of the quick...

Original Art scans

A preview of items being added to the catalog of available pieces for top tier patrons.

The catalog will be sent out later this month. If there are multiple requests on certain items, let me know if you would like the chance to bid.

Starzinger - Aurora character concepts

After finishing Firebreather at SamG animation in Seoul, the studio head Kim Suhoon hoped to pitch an updated CG version of the 1970s Toei series Starzinger (currently on Prime Video).  He asked me to present character designs of Princess Aurora, to take to Japan to acquire the rights. I got enamored of the chance to load ...

Podcast 34 - Chris Prynoski & Titmouse Animation

Fellow MTV Animation veteran Chris Prynoski has had a remarkable career that continues to inspire a new generation of animation artists. The debut of the beautiful and surreal series Scavengers Reign on Max was a good pretext for interviewing Chris and catching up with what's happening in the psychotronic land of Titmouse.

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Podcast 33 - Directing Masterclass 2023 - wk 7 & 10

These excerpts are like commentary tracks for a couple of Aeon Flux scenes, plus a verbal pitch from the first episode of my proposed new series.

Please view Podcast 27, the lesson on moral subtext first. This discussion makes reference to the clips from Leave Her to Heaven, The Sound of Music and Oliver! include...

JETSONS - Round 2

JETSONS - Round 1

In 2015, Warner Animation planned to revive another of their popular legacy characters in an updated Jetsons show. The concept was to retool it as a slice of life adult comedy, a bit like King of the Hill set in a dystopian future. They liked my drawings, but asked if I could make it less cartoony and less like the originals. T...

HERCULOIDS

In 1999, Cartoon Network asked me to design a relaunch of the Hanna-Barbera 1960s Saturday morning cartoon The Herculoids. Since it had always been a childhood favorite, I tried to be faithful to the designs of the original. I was told my designs were too close to the existing cartoon. In the end, the show was never made, maybe for the ...

Podcast 32 - Project: PILOT - Real Stories

An edit combining parts from week 6 and week 7 of my pilot workshop. This is a further exploration of the idea that a good film must always tell two stories at once: the in-world fictional narrative and the real-world emotional arc of the viewer. Ideally, these two stories move on diverging paths. Counter to the conventional view that films prov...

Fox Kids promo - animatic & pencil test

Animatic and pencil test for a 10 second on-air promo for Fox Kids. 1999.