The Park at the Mall of America - Halloween spot " The Drive"

Watch The Mall of America Halloween spot.

Production Company: Reelworks

Agency: Preston Kelly (Formerly Kerker)

Awards:

Anicomm Awards: 10 Best Animated Commercials of the Year, by Animation Magazine

Best Professional Awards, Siggraph Minnesota Electronic Theatre

Best Commissioned Film, Kalamazoo Animation Festival

Film Festival Screenings:

Holland Animation Festival (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Anim'est (Bucharest, Romania)

Tehran International Animation Festival (Tehran, Iran)

Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (Seoul, Korea)

Citrus Cel Animation Festival (Jacksonville, Florida)

Kalamazoon Animation Festival (Carbondale, Michigan)

Murphy's Shorts: list of film festival screenings

Murphy's Shorts

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1538871/

Awards: Best Animation: Wildwood Film Festival

     Audience Choice Award: Reno Film Festival

 

‘Murphy’s Short’s’ has been selected for 30 Int’l film festivals. 

2009

October     Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Leipzig, Germany)

Oct. 3-6    Animac (Lleida, San Sebastian, Spain)

Edinburgh Int'l Film Festival (Scotland, UK)

Oct. & Nov. 

                Red Stick Int'l Animation Festival (Baton Rouge, LA, US)

                Banjaluka Int'l Animated Film Festival (Banjaluka, Bosna/Hercegovina)

                Tindirindis Int'l Animation Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania)

                Forum for Int'l Animation Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)

Nov.         Animateka Int'l Animation Film Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenija)

                El Meu Primer Festival (Barcelona, Spain)

2010

                Int'l Short Film Festival Detmold (Detmold, Germany)

                Square Lake Solstice Film Festival (Stillwater, MN, US)

                Minnesota Electronic Theatre (Minneapolis, MN, US)

                The Epiphany Children's Film Festival (NY, NY, US)

Apr. 1-4    Dawson City Int'l Short Film Festival (Dawson City, Canada)

                San Francisco Int'l Children's Film Festival (SF, CA, US)

                Citrus Cel Animation Festival (Jacksonville, FL, US)

Apr. 29-May 10     Los Angeles United Film Festival (LA, CA, US)

                Wildwood Film Festival (Menasha, WI, US)

                360/365 George Eastman House Film Festival (Rochester, NY)

                Foursite Film Festival (Ogden, UT, US)

                Reno Film Festival (Reno, NV, US)

                Nickel Independent Film Festival (St. John’s, NL, Canada)

Jun. 25     Detroit Windsor Int'l Film Festival (Detroit, MI, US)

                Jersey Shore Film Festival (Deal, NJ, US)

Jul.           Long Island Int'l Film Expo (Long Island, NY, US)

                Kids First! Film Festival (Santa Fe, NM, US)

                Washougal Int'l Film Festival (Washougal, WA, US)

                San Diego Children's Film Festival (San Diego, CA, US)

                SoCal Independent Film Festival (Huntington Beach, CA, US)

Oct.          Flatland Film Festival

Nov.         L'Alternativa Festival, Barcelona, Spain

2011         
Mar.        Sarasota FF, Sarasota, FL, US

               New York International Children's Film Festival

               Providence Childrens Film Festival

Jul.30-Aug. 6    Woods Hole Film Festival

Aug.         Cinematic Circus, Chilmark Community Center

                MUMIA - Monstra Animation Festival

2012

                Kid Flix Mix: The Best of New York Children's Film Festival

                @ Teaneck International Film Festival

                @ Utah Film Center

                @Aurora Picture Show

Frito Lays Ad Campaign 'Shelf Talkers'

A snap shot at Ralph's in LA.

This is another campaign, 'Shelf Talkers' after its first campaign 'Cart Talkers' using the same illustration elements that I made.

One day, I went for grocery shopping, and I noticed something very.... familiar..., when I was about to pick up a bag of chips..... My illustrations!!

So yes, I got the Lays chip that day with full of excitement!

Frito Lays 'Cart Talkers'

Individual element illustrations

Frito Lays Ad Campaign 'Cart Talkers'

Illustrations for Frito Lays 2008 campaign 'Cart Talker'

Illustrator: Soyeon Kim

Art Directors: Leonardo Santos/ Matt Fraser

Agency: The Marketing Arm

Intro to Keith Urban Music Video

Yellowshed (Todd & Soyeon) made an animated intro clip for the Keith Urban's 'Kiss A Girl' music video, which is also screened during Keith Urban's 2009 ACM award performance.

Symbolic icon 'Bird' was designed, animated in traditional methods (using papers, pencils), then inked using brush pens, scanned the images, then composited in After Effects. NY city background was created in Photoshop, then combined with digitally treated green-screen footage of Keith Urban.

In the final music video, this intro footage is followed by the main sequence that NY based animator/artist, Richard Borge directed, who created unique artistic look of photo montage/live action for the spot. The concept was written by Chris Hickey.

YELLOWSHED's 30 second intro clip was on Keith Urban website as a 'sneak peak preview' until the official music video came out.

You can see the full music video at youtube.

This is one of my concept designs.

It wasn't used for the actual spot, due to its concept changes.

Murphy's Shorts at the New York International Children's Film Festival

 

Murphy's Shorts, directed by Todd Hemker

Natural History Museum spots 'Tree of Life' & 'Dinosaurs' Awards & Film Festival Selections

'Tree of Life' (2007)

Awards

2008 Gold Addy Award

-Television

-Regional/National TV, Single Spots, Consumer Services, Travel/Tourism

2008 Gold Addy Award

-Elements of Advertising

-Animation or Special Effects, Video, Film

2008 Telly Award

Screenings

2008 May 31-Jun 5        AnimaFest: World Festival of Animated Films, (Zagreb, Croatia)

2008 Jul 11-20, 23-27    AnimaMundi (Rio de Janeiro/ Sao Paulo, Brazil)

2008 Oct 3-12                Anim'est (Bucharest, Romania)

2008 Nov 5-9                 HAFF: Holland Animation Film Festival, (Utrecht, Netherlands)

2008 Nov 12-15             BAF: Bradford Animation Festival, (Bradford, UK)

2009 Mar 1-5                 Tehran Int’l Animation Festival, (Tehran, Iran)

2009 Sep 28- Oct 7         Krok Int’l Animated Film Festival, (Kyiv, Ukraine)

'Dinosaurs' (2008)

Awards

2008 Telly Award

 

Screenings

2008 Sep 10-13             Animanima: International Animation Festival of Serbia, (Cacak, Serbia)
2008 Oct 3-12                Anim'est International Animation Festival, (Bucharest, Romania)
2008 Nov 10-16             Cinanima: Int’l Animated Film Festival of Portugal, (Espinho, Portugal)
2008 Nov 5-9                 HAFF: Holland Animation Film Festival, (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
2009 May 7-10               AniFest, (Teplice, Czech Republic)
2009 July 10-26              Anima Mundi, (Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo, Brazil)
2009 Sep 17-20,             Klik! Amsterdam Animation Festival, (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Transparent Movement: list of screenings

Award:

Best Experimental Film, Connecticut Film Festival

2nd Place in Experimental Film, Twin Rivers Media Festival

Nominated for the 'Best Experimental Film, Directors Circle Festival of Shorts 

Film Festival Screenings:

2009 

AniFest (Trebon/ Teplice, Czech Republic) May  1-4

Kalamazoo Animation Festival Int'l (Kalamazoo, MI, US) May 14-17

Twin Rivers Media Festivals (Asheville, NC, US) May 29-31

In The Palace Short Film Festival (Balchik, Bulgaria) Jun. 20-27

Anima Mundi (Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Jul. 10-26

Square Lake Solstice Film Festival (Stillwater, MN, US) Aug. 15

The Rome International Film Festival (Rome, GA, US) Sep. 11-12

Indie-AniFest (Seoul, Korea) Sep. 17-22

California Int'l Animation Festival (Riverbank, CA, US) Sep. 27

Moving Image Arts Film Festival (Toronto, ON, Canada) Oct. 16-18

High Desert Shorts Int'l Film Festival (Pahrump, NV, US) Nov. 6-7

Olympia Film Festival (Olympia, WA, US) Nov. 6-14

Anchorage Int'l Film Festival (Anchorage, AL, US) Dec. 4-17

2010 

Dam Short Film Festival (Boulder City, NV, US) Feb. 10-13
Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, MI, US) Feb. 19-28
Lake County Film Festival (Grayslake, IL, US) Mar. 3-8
Davis Film Festival (Davis, CA, US) Mar. 11-13
Citrus Cel Animation Festival (Jacksonville, FL, US) Apr. 9-11
The Kansas City FilmFest (Kansas City, MO, US) Apr. 14-18
Griffon Int'l Film Festival (St. Joseph, MO, US) Apr. 19-23
Delta int'l Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS, US) Apr. 21-23
On Location: Memphis Int'l Film Fest (Memphis, TN, US) Apr. 22-25
Kansas City Art Institutes (Kansas City, MO, US) Apr. 29
The Connecticut Film Festival (Danbury, CT, US) May 4-9
Talking Pictures Festival (Evanston, IL, US) May 7-9
Artfest Film Festival (Harrisburg, PA, US) May 28-31
Gallery of Animation (Long Beach, CA, US) Jul. 15
Asian American Int'l Film Festival (NY, NY, US) Jul. 15-24
Asian Film Festival of Dallas (Dallas, TX, US) Jul. 23-29
Washougal Int'l Film Festival (Washougal, WA, US) Aug. 11-15
Landlocked Film Festival (Iowa City, IA, US) Aug. 26-29
Rappahannock Inde Film Festival (Fredericksburg, VA, US) Aug. 26-29
Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, Australia) Sep. 9-11
Commffest Community Film Festival (Toronto, Canada) Sep. 22-27
Great Lakes Int'l Film Festival (Erie, PA, US) Sep. 22-29
SoCal Independent Film Festival (Hungtington Beach, CA, US) Sep. 26-Oct. 3
GIAA Festival of Short Films & Videos (Manhattan, NY, US) Oct. 1-3
Flint Film Festival (Flint, MI, US) Oct. 15-16
Banjaluka Int'l Animated Film Festival (Banjaluka, Bosna/Hercegovina) Oct. 22-27
Directors Circle Festival of Shorts (Erie, PA, US) Nov. 8-12
Red Rock Film Festival (St. George, UT, US) Nov. 11-14
Poppy Jasper Film Festival (Morgan Hill, CA, US) Nov. 12-14

2014

Monterey Museum of Art (Monterey, CA, US)

2022

Nov. 11    Nuit de l'ANIM' (Marseille, France)

a Short Film, 'Transparent Movement' 2009

One minute experimental animation, 'Transparent Movement'.

After having spent most time working on studio projects for the clients for years (which I enjoy..., but it's definitely different from doing my own), I wanted to perk up my nerves on my 'experimental' side of brain.

The footage was made based on two dancers moving behind the screen (back-lid). It was shot on video, then I printed out selected frames. I created various shapes and images by adding drawings or paintings on top, cutting out shapes and re-composing them in layers, then re-exposed them under the down-shooter camera. Images were also multiplied and/or rearranged in Adobe Photoshop and After Effects.

Music was composed by my multi-talented friend, Tim Samoff, who was actually my classmate from animation program at Calarts.

This film has been selected for Int'l Film Festivals, and am really excited and looking forward to showing it to the public!

imdb listing

Where, There, Here: list of screenings

Award:

-Best of REEL 13 Shorts (New York, USA)

Film Festival / Public Screenings:

-Hampshire Film Festival (Fareham, Hampshire, UK)
-REEL 13 Shorts (New York, NY, US)

-Comic-Con (San Diego, CA, US)

-San Diego Int'l Children's Film Festival (San Diego, CA, US)
-Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (Seoul, Korea)

-Square Lake Film Festival (Stillwater, MN, US)

-Indie AniFest (Seoul, Korea)

-Hyart Film Festival (Lovell, WY, US)

-Seoul Extreme Short Int'l Film Festival (Seoul, Korea)

-Flip Animation Festival (Wolverhampton, UK)

-Biennial of Animation Bratislava, Int'l Festival of Animated Films for Children (Bratislava, Slovakia)
-Tindirindis Int'l Animation Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania)

-SoDak Animation Festival (Brookings, SD, US)

-Chicago Int'l Children's Film Festival (Chicago, IL, US)

-Anymasyros (Hermoupolis, Greece)

-Los Angeles Int'l Children's Film Festival (LA, CA, US)
- Rencontres Internationales du Cinema d’Animation de Wissembourg (Wissembourg, France)
-Seattle Int'l Children's Film Festival (Seattle, WA, US)
-Providence Int'l Children's Film Festival (Providence, RI, US)
-Redcat Int'l Children's Film Festival (LA, CA, US)
-Brussels Children's Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium)
-Wonder Con (SF, CA, US)
-San Francisco Int'l Children's Film Festival (SF, CA, US)
-LA Asian Pacific Film Festival (LA, CA, US)
-Family Festival (Fort Worth, TX, US)
-Seoul Int'l Cartoon and Animation Festival (Seoul, Korea)

2013

Jan. 26    Bay Area International Children's Film Festival, Oakland, California

2022

Nov. 11    Nuit de l'ANIM', Marseille, France

'WHERE THERE HERE' - Winner of the REEL 13 shorts

After a week's public votes, Soyeon's sand animation, 'WHERE, THERE, HERE' has won the broadcast slot for this week.  The Reel 13 Shorts program airs this Saturday, 9 pm EST, April 11th, 2009, on Thirteen/WNET, PBS New York.

Soyeon's sand animation 'Where There Here'

I made the original footage of this film, using sand within 2 days, a while ago...  It was shot using a video camera on a U-matic tape. I only meant to play with sand, not intending to complete this as an actual film.

Last year, I put the assembly of this movie clips on the website and, to my surprise, I received several requests to screen it in film festivals.  So I brought the footage into a computer, cleaned up the image.  There wasn't much I could do to improve the quality of the imagery, but I was able to fix some glitches.

I am just happy that this film has been shown to public in many places including Asia, Europe & America! The result is surly... way beyond my original expectation on this film!

Where There Here (숨바꼭질)

Technique: Sand animation

Length: 1 min. 30 sec.

imdb listing

Museum 1: design elements

Design elements for the butterflies, and the tree

Credits:
Directors/Designers/Animators: YELLOWSHED
Creative Director: Bryan Martin
Composer: Walter Santucci


For more information, visit YELLOWSHED blog

'Charllotte's Web'- Title Sequence visual development

Here are some samples of the visual development on the Opening Titles for the feature film, 'Charllotte's Web'

Kellogg's Morning Star Farms 'Artist'

Yellowshed: Todd & Soyeon created a commercial: Kellogg's Morning Star Farms' Veggiesodes series.

It was right between our move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, flying back and forth, trying to finish up all the businesses in Minnesota (I was still working on 'Make It Happen' PSA at Make and teaching at Ai-Minnesota) as well as selling the house in the bad housing market....

Well, it was definitely a challenge, but we made the transition all right.

More information: full credits & festival screenings of the spot can be found at yellowshed's blog

Kraft Illustration Pitch 1-Merry-Go-Round

Here are a series of spec artwork for the Kraft cheese pitch.

Kraft Illustration Pitch 2-Pop Up Book

Here is another spec work for the Kraft Cheese Product.

Kraft Illustration Pitch 3-Be My Valentine

Tang Illustration 'Orchard' & 'Fruit Dance'

Style frame & storyboard for the commercial pitch: Tang 'Magic Soccer' (Spec)

'Pushing Daisies' Opening Title pitch materials

Here are the style frame, boards & animatic for the pitch on the Opening Titles for the 'Pushing Daisies'. We didn't get the job, but we had fun coming up with the imagery & concept for the Titles of the show.

Disney's Safety Smart: episode 2 'Goes Green' & episode 3 'At the Water'

I worked on the second and third episodes of Disney's Safety Smart educational series that features Timon & Pumbaa characters from the Lion King.

My official credit is Art Director. I also worked as an animator, layout artist, prop designer and After Effects compositor.

Credits:

Production: Disney Educational Productions

Animation Production: Duck Studios

Director: Dave Bossert

Animation Director: Andrew Austin

Art Director: Soyeon Kim, Frank Montagna

Technical Director: Todd Hemker

Full credits: imdb listing

Official site

Our Starbucks cards

I recently discovered that you can create custom pre-paid cards by mixing and matching some illustration elements in the Starbucks website. Here are two cards that I assembled, one for Todd, and one for myself above.  I wish... I could put both of us in the same card with my pups... just like this below... : )

Pictsweet 'Pictopia' Pitch materials

This is a pitch material (spec work) for Pictsweet's Steamables product.

Disney's 'Toy Story Musical' 2008

I worked as a video artist on Disney's "Toy Story-The Musical", theatrical musical show that had its debut in Disney's Cruise Line in Florida, back in 2008 Spring. 

I went on cruise for rehearsal, but haven't actually seen the final show yet. I was told that the show has been so successful and  will also launch in Disneyland. Yeah!

You can see the show video footage via youtube. (link to part 1 out of total 7 parts)

It is not probably as exciting as what you can experience in the theatre, but hopefully I get to see the real show soon in LA.

The set was amazing: many shots were based on toys' point of view, so all objects in the room are in gigantic scale... I had a lot of fun looking at the set and how things are integrated among each others as well as with actors/actresses.

Video was used in two projection screens: front & rear.

It is used as set backdrop images, for camera panning in scenery changes, and transitions among shots...

Video animation production was done in Duck studio.

3D artist created elements that match the art direction of the original Toy Story movie, and video was composited in After Effects for the set to be integrated with actors and stage props.

It was very fun to see how flat video images on two layers of screen can create so much depth on the stage.

The making of Toy Story-The Musical

Disney's Safety Smart 'At Home' 2008

I have worked on Disney's educational animation 'Timon and Pumbaa's Safety Smart' series. The first episode is 'At Home' 11 minute animation featuring Timon and Pumbaa from Disney's Lion King feature. My official credit is Art Director. I also animated Timon & Pumbaa in the title sequence and several shots during the movie, designed props, created layout drawings and painted backgrounds, as well as composited shots in After Effects.

I art directed the second spot, 'Goes Green' as well, which was complete at the end of 2008, and am currently working on the third episode 'At Water'.

Credits:

Production: Disney Educational Productions

Animation production: Duck Studio

Director: Dave Bossert

Animation Director: Andrew Austin

Art Director: Soyeon Kim, Dee Farnworth

Technical Director: Todd Hemker

Full credits

imdb listing

official site

Explorer's Guild by Kevin Costner

I worked on an animation project, 'Explorer's Guild', produced by kevin Costner, created by Jon Baird, Chris Baird, & Keith Quinn, and animation production by Chiodo Bros.

Plot: Animated Internet series centers on a group of glove-trotting Victorian-era explorers and their Gothic adventurers.

The episodes haven't been officially released yet as of 2009 spring, so I cannot reveal much information... Hopefully the project gets to find the right home for its release sometime soon.

I art directed the opening 'Dream' sequence, as well as creating some production designs, animating characters and compositing shots for the project.

imdb full credits

Full Variety article

Minnesota University System 'Make It Happen' 2007

A 30 second animation PSA for Minnesota University System, produced by studio Make Visual in Minnesota.

I worked as designer, animator, and After Effect compositor with Dean Lindberg, Aaron Quist, Tony Christopherson, Jessica Grimshaw and Danny Robashkin.

Design elements for the 'Burger King'

Here are some design elements for the interactive website for kids on 'Burger King' website.  I had one hour to cook something up. Assigned elements were... boy, dress, sheep...

Chicago Safe Start 'Clingy' 2007

Here are some style samples for the pitch on the 'Chicago Safe Start' PSA campaign.

Chicago Safe Start PSA 'Clingy' sketches

Here are some sketches for the character & concept development