Early Life and Career
Peter Chung was born on April 19, 1961. Since his father was in the foreign service of Republic of Korea, he has lived in Seoul, London, Nairobi, Washington, DC, New York and Tunis. Then his parents immigrated to U.S.; he lived in McLean, Virginia. Chung studied animation at CalArts from 1979–81, one year at the Character Animation program, and another year in the program in Experimental Animation.
Chung started his animation career at a small animation studio in Maryland at age 18 working for Animator and Illustrator Dominic LoPiccolo. Later, James Gallagher from CalArts would be a significant mentor. From there at age 15 he was doing character design for Hanna-Barbera. It was around this time he also started working on the layout and animation on Ralph Bakshi’s Fire and Ice before being hired by Disney for feature development.
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