Featured Speaker

Originally a high school art teacher, Jae-Dong Park started his career as a comics artist at the newly founded Hangyeore Sinmun daily newspaper in 1988. From the first issue, Park created humorous illustrations and comics for the illustrations section. His caricatures played a significant part in the movement for democracy in Korea. He attacked the men in power through exaggeration and travesty. After Korea completed its democratization process, he drew for Hangyeore Sinmun until 1996, when he turned to animation with the film "Odoltoki". In 2009, the 10th Korean National Assembly honored him with the Caricaturist of the Year award. His honors also include directing two animations and publishing three books of essays. He is interested in art and technology, and the movement among Korean artists and engineers to bring art and technology together. He is particularly interested in CG technology that can create caricatures from photographs with high-level guidance.

In his featured talk, Jae-Dong Park discusses how computer graphics have changed the way of drawing caricatures and cartoons over the last decade. He speaks about his vision of how non-photorealistic rendering, an active research subject in CG, can enrich human life, shares his passion for art, and explains his own approach to drawing caricatures that exaggerate without offending the subjects of his drawings.