20 Facts About Eunyoung Choi

Eunyoung Choi is a South Korean studio executive, producer, director and animator.

Eunyoung Choi is the President and CEO of Science Saru, a Japanese animation studio which she co-founded with Masaaki Yuasa in 2013, and has served as producer of the company's works.

In 2020, following the announcement that Yuasa would step down from an executive role at Science Saru, Choi assumed responsibility for the management of the studio.

Eunyoung Choi graduated from Yeungnam University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in both fine arts and sculpture.

Eunyoung Choi was not initially interested in animation, but after moving to London for postgraduate art studies at Central Saint Martins, began studying character animation.

Eunyoung Choi graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2005, and subsequently moved to Japan to work in the animation industry.

Yuasa and Eunyoung Choi continued working together on subsequent projects produced at Madhouse throughout the 2000s, including the animated series Kaiba and The Tatami Galaxy ; independent of Yuasa, Eunyoung Choi worked on other Madhouse productions, including Casshern Sins.

In 2009, Eunyoung Choi became studio director of Ankama Japan, a Japan-based subsidiary of the French entertainment and animation company Ankama.

Ankama Japan relocated 25 European animators to its studio in Tokyo and produced an episode of the company's Wakfu animated series entitled Noximilien the Watchmaker; Eunyoung Choi helmed the episode, while Yuasa served as character designer.

However, Eunyoung Choi felt that the ideas of mixing digital and hand-drawn animation techniques, as well as working with a multicultural staff, were important for the Japanese industry to continue.

Eunyoung Choi was instrumental in establishing Science Saru's production methodology and recruiting its multicultural staff.

Yuasa directed the episode, while Eunyoung Choi served as creative director.

In 2014, Eunyoung Choi directed episodes of Yuasa's animated television series Ping Pong the Animation and the Bones television series Space Dandy.

Eunyoung Choi served as animation producer on both films, which received immediate critical acclaim.

In 2019, Eunyoung Choi produced the romance film Ride Your Wave, which received the studio's best reviews to date.

Eunyoung Choi produced the comedy television series Super Shiro, inspired by the popular Crayon Shin-chan manga and anime franchise.

Eunyoung Choi subsequently became CEO and president of the studio, and noted that in addition to working with Yuasa on future productions, the studio will look to develop additional projects with other directors.

In 2021, Eunyoung Choi produced a pair of related projects: the feature film Inu-Oh and the animated television series The Heike Story, both based on works by the novelist Hideo Furukawa.

Also in 2021, Eunyoung Choi returned to directing and helmed one of nine short films created for Star Wars: Visions, a short film anthology project depicting diverse stories within the Star Wars universe.

The short film Eunyoung Choi directed, entitled Akakiri, centered on the story of a princess and a Jedi.