Creator / Sunmin Animation

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Sunmin Animation (also known as Sunmin Image Pictures, or SMIP for short) is a South Korean Animation studio. It was founded in 1990 as Artplus.

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Sunmin's projects include:

• 101 Dalmatians: The Series (6 episodes) ^List "Easy on The Lies", "Dog's Best Friend", "Out to Launch", "Cadpig Behind Bars", "The Maltese Chicken", "Channels"
• American Dragon: Jake Long (season 2 only) (5 episodes) ^List "Supernatural Tuesday", Year of the Jake", "Magic Enemy #1", "Furious Jealousy", "Being Human"
• Amphibia (alternating with Rough Draft and Saerom, Season 1 only) (16 episodes)^List "Dating Season/Anne vs. Wild", "Contagi-Anne/Family Shrub", "Toad Tax/Prison Break", "Hop-Popular", "Trip to the Archives", "Snow Day/Cracking Mrs. Croaker", "Family Fishing Trip/Bizarre Bazaar", "The Big Bugball Game/Combat Camp", "Children of the Spore/Anne of the Year"
• Armored Police Metal Jack (Key Animation; their only known anime credit)
• Avengers Assemble (16+ episodes)^List "The Avengers Protocol Parts 1 & 2", "The Serpent of Doom", "Super Adaptoid", "Molecule Kid", "Doomstroyer", "Avengers Impossible", "Hulk's Day Out", "Mojo World", "All-Father's Day", "Guardians and Space Knights", "Crime and Circuses", "The Final Showdown", "Thanos Rising", "Ghosts of the Past", "The Ultron Outbreak", and probably others (other episodes by Lotto Animation)
• Batman: The Animated Series (uncredited)
• Ben 10 (23 episodes plus The Movie) ^List "And Then There Were 10", "Permanent Retirement", "Kevin 11", "The Alliance", "Lucky Girl", "Side Effects", "Truth", "Framed", "Grudge Match", "Camp Fear", "They Lurk Below", "Ghostfreaked Out", "Back With a Vengeance", "Ben 10,000", "Merry Christmas", "Game Over", "Super Alien Hero Buddy Adventures", "The Unnaturals", "The Return", "Don't Drink the Water", "Ben 4 Good Buddy", "Ken 10", "Ben 10 vs. Negative 10 Part 1", and "Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix"
  • Ben 10: Alien Force
  • Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
  • Ben 10: Omniverse
  • Ben 10 (2016) (alternating with Moi Animation) (79 shorts, plus the movie and specials)
• Black Dynamite (season 1 only; replaced by Moi Animation)
• The Boondocks (Storyboards for season 2)
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (7 episodes)^List "The Taking of PC-7", "Shiv Katall", "Head Case", "Haunted Moon", "Lone Wolf", "Planet of the Lost", "Good Ol' Buzz"
• Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys (14 episodes)^List "Yes, We Have No Bananas", "Yes, We Still Have No Bananas", "The Monkey Has Landed", "Splitzy's Choice", "Gormongus!", "Lawnmower Ape", "Monkey in the Middle", "Plan Ape From Outer Space", "Apes of Wrath", "Mind Over Monkey", "Little House on the Primate", "Escape From the Planet of the Apes", "A Clockwork Orang", "The Mandrill Who Knew Too Much" (other episodes by Jireh Animation)
• City Hunters (2 episodes) (the rest by AKOM)
• Crocadoo (1997 series) (uncredited)
• DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year (with Digital eMation, The Answer Studio, Lotto Animation and NE4U)
• Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes (with Fantasia Animation)
• Fired on Mars (3 episodes)^List "Back in the High Life Again", "The Fibonacci Sequence", "Marsiversary" (other episodes by Rough Draft)
• Gargoyles (2 episodes) ^List "Heritage", "The New Olympians"
• Gen¹³: The Movie
• Generator Rex
• Guardians of the Galaxy (2015)
• Heavy Metal 2000 (with Thai Wang Film Productions, Hong Ying, RG Prince Films, Hahn Shin Corporation, Imagine Asia Studio, Toonteck, Extremes Animation & Design Co., Behaviour Interactive, Vision Globale and Jarni)
• Hercules: The Animated Series (9 episodes)^List "Hercules and the River Styx", "Hercules and the Pool Party", "Hercules and the Owl of Athens", "Hercules and the Drama Festival", "Hercules and the Caledonian Boar", "Hercules and the Big Games", "Hercules and the Complex Electra", "Hercules and the Green-Eyed Monster", "Hercules and the Odyssey Experience"
• Infinity Train
• Jungle Cubs (three shorts)^List "The Great Kaadini", "How the Panther Lost Its Roar", and one from "Bare Necessities/Mondo Mungo"
• Justice League Action (With DR Movie and Maven Image Platform)
• Kablam: "Henry & June" (season 2)
• Lady Death (Animated Adaptation)
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
• Long Live the Royals (Pilot only)
• The Maxx (7 episodes) (uncredited)
• Megas XLR (Season 1^* Every episode except for "Coop D'état" and "The Driver's Seat" and 3 episodes of season 2^list "Ultra Chicks", "Ice Ice Megas", "Universal Remote", with Sunwoo Entertainment and Digital eMation)
• Mighty Max
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes ^Note (alternating with Digitale Mation. Also animated the pilot.)
• The Owl House (4 episodes) ^:List "A Lying Witch And A Warden", "The Intruder", "Lost in Language", "Sense and Insensitivity"
• Pearl Jam's Do The Evolution (first half, second half by Ji-Reh Animation)
• The Powerpuff Girls (2016 series)
• Rat Bastard
• Red Hawk (additional services)
• Ridin' With Burgess
• Robin and the Dreamweavers
• RoboCop: Alpha Commando (listed as "J.S. Animation" in the credits, an abbreviation of Ji-Reh Animation and Sunmin)
• Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends (20 episodes)^List "Amok Vampire", "Area 51", "Back Spin", "Bounty Wars", "Chupacabra", "Countdown", "Flying Saucer Down", "Last of the Sasquatch", "Mountain Retreat", "Numbered Days Parts 1 & 2", "Queen Banshee Parts 1 & 2", "Spot", "Target Hero", "Third Degree", "Troubled Past", "Vodun Among Us", "Vodun Rising", "When Giants Walked the Earth" (the rest by Jireh Animation)
• Steven Universe (alternating with Rough Draft Studios)^{Select episodes include} "Gem Glow", "Together Breakfast", "Serious Steven", "Lion 2: The Movie", "Coach Steven", "Steven and The Stevens", "Space Race", "Fusion Cuisine", "Garnet's Universe", "Lion 3: Straight to Video", "Warp Tour", "Alone Together", "On the Run", "Maximum Capacity", "Marble Madness", "Story for Steven", "The Return", "Jail Break", "Joy Ride", "Sworn to The Sword", "We Need to Talk", "Cry For Help", "Onion Friend", "Friend Ship", "Catch and Release", "Back to the Barn", "Too Far", "It Could've Been Great", "Log Date 7 15 2", "Super Watermelon Island", "Gem Drill", "Mr. Greg", "Too Short to Ride", "Beach City Drift", "Bismuth" (With Rough Draft), "Mindful Education", "Lion 4: Alternate Ending", "The Good Lars", "Reunited" (with Rough Draft), "Familiar", "Escapism", "Change Your Mind" (with Rough Draft)
  • Steven Universe: The Movie (with Rough Draft Studios)
• Stripperella (with Wang Film and Mook DLE, three episodes)^List "Beauty and the Obese, Parts 1 & 2", "The Wrath of Klinko"
• Timon & Pumbaa (one short: "Beetle Romania")
• ThunderCats Roar (alternating with NE4U)^{Select episodes include} "Exodus Part 2", "Prank Call", "Secret of the Unicorn", "Warrior Maiden Invasion", "The Horror of Hook Mountain", "Working Grrrl", "Dr. Dometome", "Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living", "Jaga History", "Adopt a Jackal", "Safari Joe", "Prince Starling's Quest", "Snarf's Day Off"
• Twelve Forever
• Victor and Valentino ^List "El Silbón"
• Wacky Races (2017) (1 episode)^List "My Fair Tiny"
• War of the Worlds: Goliath
• The Zeta Project (3 episodes)^List "Hunt in the Hub", "Ro's Gift", "On the Wire"

Tropes associated with Sunmin:

• Animation Bump:
  • Their Steven Universe episodes tend to look more polished than their Rough Draft Korea counterparts. This is usually notable when they animate an episode from one of the board teams who usually have their episodes animated at Rough Draft (such as Lamar Abrams^note Steven's Lion with Aleth Romanillos; Monster Buddies, Fusion Cuisine, and Love Letters with Hellen Jo; Onion Friend with Katie Mitroff, and Raven Molisee & Paul Villeco^note Frybo, Coach Steven, Warp Tour, Rose's Scabbard, The Return, Gem Drill, Earthlings, The New Crystal Gems). This faded by the time of The Movie, after which the two studios became mostly indistinguishable from each other.
  • The Powerpuff Girls saw slight improvements in its animation during the second and third seasons.
• Production Posse:
  • Often worked with Epoch Ink.
  • While Cartoon Network has used them to animate their shows created or based on shows created by Man of Action since the mid 2000's beginning with the first Ben 10 series, they have been using them more frequently for animating other projects since the mid 2010's such as Steven Universe, the Powerpuff Girls reboot, and a majority of their recent pilots (EX: Infinity Train, Twelve Forever).