Creator / Sunwoo Entertainment

Sunwoo Entertainment is a South Korean animation studio based in Seoul. They started doing animation in 1979 (though they existed as a company as early as March 1974), first working on South Korean productions, then for Disney nearly a decade later and have since become one of the busier overseas animation studios.

Back in The '90s, Sunwoo had a few companies spun-off from it: Anivision (in March 1991 ^Note (and an American branch opened later)), Grimsaem (in March 1997), and Sunwoo Digital International (in April 1998). In April 2000, however, the spin-offs were all sucked back into the main studio^note (Although that didn't stop some shows, notably the ones from Klasky-Csupo, to still credit the defunct studios even after the merger). Sunwoo has a subsidiary in the Philippines, as well as a studio in Singapore called Sunwoo Asia Pacific. They also have a toy company (Named Mocom Toys; making them one of two Korean animation studios that owns a toy company)^note the other being Hanho Heung-Up, responsible for releasing Hasbro's Transformers toys (as well as stuff for Thomas & Friends, Hamtaro, Disney and others).

In addition to Disney, Sunwoo and its spin-offs have also worked for Universal, Cookie Jar Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, and, of course, Nickelodeon and Klasky-Csupo.

Compare Toon City (another studio that got its start with Disney), TMS Entertainment, Wang Film Productions, Rough Draft Studios, the Walt Disney Animation Units, Varga Studio and Kennedy Cartoons, other studios that Sunwoo and its spin-offs have worked alongside.

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Shows and films worked on by Sunwoo, Anivision, Grimsaem and Sunwoo Digital International (Studio section in brackets):

Disney

• 101 Dalmatians: The Series [Sunwoo] (7 episodes)^List "Love 'em and Flea 'em", "Tic Track Toe", "Lucky All Star", "Frisky Business", "Double Dog Dare", "Lord of the Termites", "Dog Food Day Afternoon"
• Aladdin: The Series [Sunwoo] (21 episodes)^List "Lost and Founded", "Caught By the Tale", "Beast or Famine", "The Animal Kingdom", "The Sands of Fate", "The Citadel", "The Seven Faces of Genie", "The Wind Jackals of Mozenrath", "Egg-stra Protection", "Heads, You Lose", "Shark Treatment", "Black Sand", "Destiny on Fire", "The Hunted", "Riders Redux", "The Book of Khartoum", "While the City Snoozes", "Two to Tangle", "The Ethereal", "The Shadow Knows", "The Great Rift"
• American Dragon: Jake Long [Sunwoo] (9 episodes)^List "Fu Takes a Walk", "Adventures in Troll-Sitting", "Professor Rotwood's Thesis", "Dragon Summit", "Ski Trip", "Hong Kong Knights", "Fu and Tell", "Flight of the Unicorn", "Ring Around the Dragon"
• Bonkers [Sunwoo] (20 episodes)^List "The Stork Exchange", "Bobcat Fever", "Fistful of Anvils", "Toon For a Day", "Time Wounds All Heals", "The Rubber Room Song" (with Wang Film Productions), "Witless For the Prosecution", "Quibbling Rivalry", "Springtime For the Iguana", "Casabonkers", "Love Stuck", "Of Mice and Menace", "Dog Day Aftertoon", "The 29th Page", "Toon With No Name", "Get Wacky", "Comeback Kid", "The Greatest Story Never Told", "A Fine Kettle of Toons", "Stressed to Kill"
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command [Sunwoo] (7 episodes)^List "Tag Team", "Mira's Wedding", "Downloaded", "The Crawling Flesh", "First Missions", "Ancient Evil", "Strange Invasion"
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers [Sunwoo] (the company's first notable U.S. work; 12 episodes)^List "Battle of the Bulge", "Ghost of a Chance", "A Case of Stage Blight", "Normie's Science Project", "Shell Shocked", "Mind Your Cheese and Q's", "When You Fish Upon A Star", "Rest Home Rangers", "Gorilla My Dreams", "A Fly in the Ointment", "A Chorus Crime", "They Shoot Dogs,Don't They?"
• Darkwing Duck [Sunwoo] (41 episodes solo)^List "Beauty and the Beet", "Getting Antsy", "Night of the Living Spud", "Apes of Wrath", "Paraducks", "Easy Come, Easy Grows", "A Revolution in Home Appliances", "Trading Faces", "Hush Hush, Sweet Charlatan", "Bearskin Thug", "You Sweat Your Life", "Days of Blunder", "Just Us Justice Ducks Parts 1 & 2", "Aduckyphobia", "When Aliens Collide", "Something Fishy", "All's Fahrenheit in Love and War", "Ghoul of My Dreams", "Adopt-a-Con", "Bad Tidings", "The Secret Origins of Darkwing Duck", "Going Nowhere Fast", "Disguise the Limit", "It's a Wonderful Leaf", "Twitching Channels", "Dances With Bigfoot", "Twin Beaks", "The Incredible Bulk", "My Valentine Ghoul", "Time and Punishment", "The Quiverwing Quack", "Kung Fooled", "Dirtysomething", "A Star is Scorned", "Film Flam", "Monsters R Us", "Star Crossed Circuits", "The Frequency Fiends", "Hot Spells", "Extinct Possibility" (camera services for 2 episodes)^List "A Duck By Any Other Name", "In Like Blunt" (both for Walt Disney France)
• Gargoyles [Sunwoo] (7 episodes)^List "Long Way to Morning", "Metamorphosis", "Legion", "A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time", "Pendragon", "The New Olympians", "Turf"
• Goof Troop [Sunwoo] (17 episodes)^List "Goofin' Hood and His Melancholy Men", "Leader of the Pack", "Inspector Goofy", "Shake, Rattle and Goof", "Fool's Gold", "The Ungoofables", "All the Goof That's Fit to Print", "Bringin' on the Rain", "To Heir is Human", "Goofin' Up the Social Ladder", "From Air to Eternity", "The Incredible Bulk", "Goodbye Mr. Goofy", "E=MC Goof", "Window Pains", "Gymnauseum", "Big City Blues"
• Hercules [TV series] [Sunwoo] (4 episodes) ^list "Hercules and the Secret Weapon", "Hercules and the Techno Greeks", "Hercules and the Hero of Athens", "Hercules and the King For a Day" ^Trivia  Many members of Sunwoo formed their own studio, Hana Animation, around this time. Hana worked on Hercules, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and the Tarzan series. As well as some minor work on Kirby: Right Back at Ya! and Green Green
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series [Sunwoo] (8 episodes)^list "Kixx", "Splodyhead", "Yaarp", "The Asteroid", "Houdini", "Short Stuff", "Sample", "Poxy"
• Lloyd in Space [Sunwoo] (19 episodes)^List "The Science Project", "Caution: Wormhole!", "Daydream Trasceiver", "Kurtlas the Symbiotic Boy", "Girl From the Center of the Universe", "Nora's Big Date", "Francine's Power Trip", "You're Never Too Old", "The Big Sleepover", "Incident at Luna Vista", "Stink-o-Rama", "Love Beam #9", "The Thrilla in Intrepidvilla", "Lloyd Changes His Mind", "Android Lloyd", "At Home With the Bolts", "Heads Up, Blobberts", "Commander Lloyd", "The Ride Along" (the rest by Plus One Animation)
• Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series [Sunwoo] (8 episodes)^List "The First Face-Off Part 1", "Power Play", "Microducks", "Beaks vs. B.R.A.W.N.", "Jurassic Puck", "Bringing Down Baby", "Buzz Bliztman Mighty Duck", "The Final Face-off"
• Pepper Ann [Sunwoo] (3 episodes were done by Hana Animation)
• Quack Pack [Sunwoo] (3 episodes)^list "Return of the T-Squad", "Hero Today, Don Tomorrow", "Feats of Clay"
• Recess [Sunwoo/Grimsaem/Anivision] (Grimsaem did most of season one and the main title sequence, Sunwoo did the rest of season one, assorted traditional cel episodes for the rest of the series (along with Plus One Animation), and Recess: School's Out, and Anivision the (better animated) digitally colored episodes (along with Toon City))
• TaleSpin [Sunwoo] (25 episodes)^List "Plunder & Lightning: Part 4", "From Here to Machinery", "Molly Coddled", "Polly Wants a Treasure", "The Idol Rich", "Her Chance to Dream", "A Bad Reflection on You: Parts 1 & 2", "A Touch of Glass", "Whistlestop Jackson, Legend", "Feminine Air", "Last Horizons", "War of the Weirds", "For Whom the Bell Klangs: Parts 1 & 2", "Citizen Khan", "My Fair Baloo", "Flight School Confidential", "Bringing Down Babyface", "Louie's Last Stand", "Baloo Thunder", "Destiny Rides Again", "Stuck on You", "The Ransom of Red Chimp", "Your Baloo's in the Mail"
• Teamo Supremo [Sunwoo]
• Timon & Pumbaa [Sunwoo] (2 episodes)^List "Isle of Manhood", "Timon on the Range"
• Winnie The Pooh and Christmas Too [Sunwoo] (provided ink & paint/camera services for Walt Disney Animation France)
  • Tales of Friendship with Winnie the Pooh [Sunwoo]

Nickelodeon

• The Angry Beavers [Sunwoo] (unaired pilot only)
• ChalkZone [Sunwoo] (seasons 2-3)
• The Fairly Oddparents [Sunwoo] (1 episode)^List "Crash Nebula" (with Yeson Entertainment)
• Hey Arnold! [Anivision] (pilot only)
• Invader Zim [Sunwoo]
• Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program [Sunwoo] ("Lucas" pilot)
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons [Sunwoo] (1 short)^List "Planet Kate" (with VirtualMagic Animation)
• Random! Cartoons [Sunwoo] (1 short)^List "Hornswiggle"
• Rocko's Modern Life [Sunwoo] (seasons 1-3, minus "Fatal Contraption" and parts of the domestically-animated pilot "Trash-o-Madness")

Klasky-Csupo

• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters [Anivision]
• As Told by Ginger [Anivision/Sunwoo Digital International]
• Duckman [Sunwoo/Anivision] (70 episodes total)^{List of Sunwoo episodes} "T.V. or Not to Be", "Psyche", "Gland of Opportunity", "Ride the High School", "Not So Easy Riders", "American Dicks", "About Face", "Married Alive", "Days of Whining and Neurosis", "America the Beautiful", "In the Nam of the Father", "Clip Job", "Noir Gang", "A Room With a Bellevue", "Clear and Presidente Danger", "The Mallardian Candidate", "The Once and Future Duck", "Aged Heat", "The Road to Dendron", "The Amazing Colossal Duckman", "Dammit, Hollywood", "Aged Heat 2: Women in Heat", "All About Elliott", "From Brad to Worse", "Role With It", "With Friends Like These", "A Star is Abhorred", "Love! Anger! Kvetching!", "Ebony, Baby", "Crime, Punishment, War, Piece, and the Idiot", "The Tami Show", "Westward No!", "How to Suck in Business Without Really Trying", "Hamlet 2: This Time, It's Personal", "Where No Duckman Has Gone Before" ^{List of Anivision episodes} unaired pilot, "I, Duckman", "The Gripes of Wrath", "A Civil War", "It's the Thing of the Principal", "Cellar Beware", "Joking the Chicken", "Papa Oom M.O.W. M.O.W.", "Inherit the Judgment: The Dope's Trial", "The Germ Turns", "Research and Destroy", "Forbidden Fruit", "Grandma-ma's Flatulent Adventure", "Color of Naught", "Sperms of Endearment", "Apocalypse Not", "The Girls of Route Canal", "Pig Amok", "The One With Lisa Kudrow in a Small Role", "They Craved Duckman's Brain!", "Exile in Guyville", "The Longest Weekend", "Cock Tales For Four", "Coolio Runnings", "Bonfire of the Panties", "Ajax & Ajaxer", "A Trophied Duck", "Bev Takes a Holiday", "Duckman and Cornfed in Haunted Society Plumbers", "Vuuck, as in Duck", "Kidney, Popsicle, and Nuts", "My Feral Lady", "Short, Plush, and Deadly", "You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby", "Das Sub", "Four Weddings Inconceivable"
  • This Duckman commercial with original footage [Anivision] (uncredited)
• Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle [Anivision] (with Wang Film)
  • Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home [Anivision]
• Immigrants (aka L.A. Dolce Vita) [Anivision/Sunwoo Digital International]
• Klasky Csupo pilots: [Anivision/Sunwoo Digital International]
  • Bench Pressly
  • Citizen Tony
  • Psyko Ferret
  • Stinky Pierre
  • You Animal
• Rocket Power [Anivision/Sunwoo Digital International] (with Varga Studio for the pilot)
• Rugrats [Anivision/Sunwoo Digital International] (season 2 onwards; replacing Wang Film)
  • The Rugrats Movie [Grimsaem/Sunwoo Digital International/Sunwoo USA] (with Stardust Pictures and Animagic Studio)
  • Rugrats in Paris [Grimsaem/Sunwoo Digital International/Sunwoo USA] (with Rhythm & Hues)
  • Rugrats Go Wild! [Sunwoo/Sunwoo Digital International/Sunwoo USA]
  • All Grown Up! [Anivision/Sunwoo Digital International]
  • Angelica and Susie's Pre-School Daze [Sunwoo]
• Santo Bugito [Anivision]
• Stressed Eric [Anivision] (season 1 only)
• The Wild Thornberrys [Anivision/Sunwoo Digital International]
  • The Wild Thornberrys Movie [Sunwoo/Sunwoo Digital International/Sunwoo USA]
• The Wacky Adventures Of Ronald Mc Donald [Grimsaem/Sunwoo Digital International]

Other

• Angry Birds [Sunwoo] (2D animations only)
  • Angry Birds Star Wars Cinematic Trailer [Sunwoo]
• Baby Blues [Sunwoo] (3 episodes)^List "The Bitterman Hillbillies", "The Bad Family", "Teddy-Cam"
• Bad Dog [Sunwoo]
• Big Bear & Nannook [Sunwoo]
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers [Sunwoo] (uncredited)
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury [Sunwoo]
• Clifford's Puppy Days [Sunwoo] (season 1 only, replaced by Yeson Entertainment)
• Colorful Crayon [Sunwoo]
• Cro [Sunwoo/Anivision/Anivision America]
• Curious Ping & Pong [Sunwoo]
• Curious George (with Warner Bros. Animation, Yowza! Animation, Mercury Filmworks, Wang Film, Toon City, Project Firefly, James Baxter Animation, Neomis Animation, July Films and FatCat Animation)
  • Curious George (TV series) (5 episodes)^List "Charkie Escapes", "George the Grocer", "Curious George and the Missing Piece", "The Times of Sand", "George Fixes Betsy's Wagon"
• Dooly's Journey to the World [Sunwoo/Anivision]
• Doubting Thomas (main title animation)
• Dreamland Cartoon Theater [Sunwoo] (the company's first notable work)
  • The Starland Trio
  • Three Musketeers: Time Machine 001
  • 15 Children Space Adventure
  • 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother
• Dragon Tales [Sunwoo]
• Dumb and Dumber [Sunwoo]
• Family Guy [Grimsaem/Sunwoo Digital] (31 episodes)^List All of seasons 1 and 3 in production order, plus "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar", "A Picture is Worth 1,000 Bucks", "Fifteen Minutes of Shame" / [Sunwoo] (35 episodes) ^list "North By North Quahog", "Don't Make Me Over", "8 Simple Rules For Buying My Teenage Daughter", "Model Misbehavior", "The Perfect Castaway", "PTV", "The Courtship of Stewie's Father", "Brian Sings & Swings", "Patriot Games", "Sibling Rivalry", "Peterotica", "Petergeist", "Untitled Griffin Family History", "Stewie B. Goode", "Banjo Was His Name", "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure" (plus the wraparounds for "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story"), "Stewie Loves Lois", "Mother Tucker", "Whistle While Your Wife Works", "Prick Up Your Ears", "Chick Cancer", "Barely Legal", "Road to Rupert", "The Tan Aquatic With Steve Zissou", "Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey", "No Meals on Wheels", "Boys Do Cry", "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", "Meet the Quagmires", "Blue Harvest", "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)", "Stewie Kills Lois", "Lois Kills Stewie", "Padre de Familia", "Peter's Daughter"
• Fatherhood [Sunwoo]
• Flamingo Court pilot [Sunwoo]
• Growing Up Creepie [Sunwoo/Sunwoo Philippines] (with Peach Blossom Media and Animation Dimensions)
• Holly Hobbie and Friends [Sunwoo]
• I Got a Rocket [Sunwoo/Sunwoo Philippines]
• The Illusionist [Sunwoo] (with Neomis, Guy Movie, Ink Digital, La Station and Django Films)
• Johnny Bravo [Sunwoo] (season 1, along with Rough Draft Studios)
• Jumanji: The Animated Series [Sunwoo] (5 episodes)^List "Stormy Weather", "El Pollo Jumanji", "Perfect Match", "The Gift", "Truth or Consequently" (also animated the opening sequence with USAnimation)
• King of the Hill [Anivision] (3 episodes)^List "Propane Boom", "Luanne Virgin 2.0", "Lupe's Revenge"
• Kung Fu Dino Posse [Sunwoo/Sunwoo Asia Pacific]
• Metajets [Sunwoo]
• Megas XLR [Sunwoo] (6 episodes)^List "Coop D'état", "Don't Tell Mom the Baby-sitter's Coop", "Thanksgiving Throwdown" (with Titmouse), "Space Booty", "Terminate Her", "A Clockwork Megas"
• Milo's Bug Quest [Sunwoo/Grimsaem/Anivision America]
• Mini B [Sunwoo]
• Mix Master: King of Cards [Sunwoo] (co-produced with Nippon Animation, KBS, Beijing Omni Culture Exchange Co., Ltd., and du HITEC)
  • Mix Master: Final Force [Sunwoo/Sunwoo Asia Pacific] (with Axis and Studio Raon)
• The Mouse and the Monster [Sunwoo] (with Saerom)
• Mr. Bean: The Animated Series [Sunwoo] (4 episodes)^List "Big TV/Keyboard Capers", "Hopping Mad!/A Grand Invitation", "A Running Battle/Egg and Bean", "A Royal Makeover/Supermarrow" (all with Varga Studio)
• ¡Mucha Lucha! [Sunwoo] (5 episodes)^List "Flea's Bueno Twin", "Pig Out", "Chain of Fools", "War of the Donuts", "Laying in Ruins"
• The Mummy: The Animated Series [Sunwoo]
• My Friend Kommy [Sunwoo]
• The New Woody Woodpecker Show [Sunwoo] (with Big Star, Funbag Animation for season 2, Mercury Filmworks and Studio B Productions for season 3)
• Nick & Noël [Sunwoo]
• The Night B4 Christmas [Grimsaem/Sunwoo Digital International]
• No More Diapers [Anivision]
• Noonbory and the Super 7 [Sunwoo] (season 2 only)
• Party Wagon [Sunwoo] (with Saerom)
• Paul's Miraculous Adventure [Sunwoo]
• Private Eye Princess pilot [Sunwoo]
• Red Planet [Sunwoo] (with Anitec Animation Production)
• The Simpsons [Anivision] (57 episodes)^list "Homer Defined", "Treehouse of Horror II", "Lisa's Pony", "Flaming Moe's", "I Married Marge", "Homer Alone", "Bart the Lover", "Homer at the Bat", "Black Widower", "Bart's Friend Falls in Love", "Kamp Krusty", "A Streetcar Named Marge", "Selma's Choice", "I Love Lisa", "Last Exit to Springfield", "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show", "Krusty Gets Kancelled", "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood", "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)", "Homer and Apu", "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacey", "Homer Loves Flanders", "Burns' Heir" (plus the re-animated Deep Note parody for THX), "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", "Lady Bouvier's Lover", "Lisa's Rival", "Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy", "Homer the Great", "Homie the Clown", "Homer vs. Patty and Selma", "A Star is Burns", "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds", "The Springfield Connection", "Who Shot Mr. Burns Part II", "Radioactive Man" (with USAnimation), "Team Homer", "Homer the Smithers", "22 Short Films About Springfield", "Summer of 4 ft. 2", "A Milhouse Divided", "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson", "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala (Annoyed Grunt) cious", "The Canine Mutiny", "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase", "The Cartridge Family", "Lisa the Skeptic", "The Joy of Sect", "The Last Temptation of Krust", "This Little Wiggy", "Trash of the Titans", "Treehouse of Horror IX", "Lisa Gets an "A"", "Mayored to the Mob", "Homer to the Max", "Maximum Homerdrive", "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"
  • Deep Deep Trouble music video (Anivision's first assignment, animation for Rough Draft Studios)
• Siren [Sunwoo]
• Sofia the First [Sunwoo] (season 1 only) (5 episodes)^list "The Shy Princess", "Baileywick's Day Off", "Two to Tangu", "The Buttercups", "Tea for Too Many" (the rest by Toiion Animation Studios)
• Son of the Mask [Sunwoo] (animated sequences only, movie with Industrial Light & Magic, Illusion Arts, Digital Dimension, Pacific Title and Tippett Studio)
• Space Goofs [Sunwoo/Anivision] (with Big Star, Toutenkartoon and Studio Dacodac)
• Space Hip Hop Duck [Sunwoo] (co-produced with Shanghai Animation Film Studio)
• Special Agent Oso [Sunwoo]
• Spin Kicker [Sunwoo]
• Ted & Dory Detectives [Sunwoo]
• Transformers (Mocom Toy, later Sunwoo; Toyline distribution in South Korea since the 2007 film)
  • Transformers: Cybertron [Sunwoo] (animation co-production with GONZO; also released most of the toyline through Mocom)
• Trickster: Clue Hunters [Sunwoo] [cancelled]
• Van Helsing: The London Assignment [Sunwoo] (animation services for Production I.G)
• Wild Animal Baby Explorers [Sunwoo]
• Xiaolin Chronicles [Sunwoo] (2D and CG animation, with Digital eMation) (7 episodes)^List "New Monk on the Block", "A Girl Named Willow", "The Fall of the Xiaolin", "Buddy Blu-ray and the Golden Bunnies", "Tokyo Madness", "Magic Stallion and the Wild Wild West", "Back in the Flesh Again"
• Yobi, the Five-Tailed Fox [Sunwoo]

Properties licensed by Sunwoo:

• Chibi Maruko-chan (through Nippon Animation)
• Mofy
• Petit Petit Muse (through Seoul Movie)
• Sazer-X
• Talking Friends
• Transformers Galaxy Force

Tropes found in the works of Sunwoo and its spin offs:

• Animation Bump: Grimsaem's feature film work, as well as their work on Recess.
  • When Anivision replaced Wang Film on Rugrats, the animation quality improved greatly.
  • They had the fullest animation of the three studios on Baby Blues.
• Animesque: MetaJets, Mix Master, Spin Kicker and Yobi.
• Deranged Animation: Plenty of moments in Aaahh! Real Monsters.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Disney, one of their biggest clients, has moved away from them. The Simpsons dumped them in 1999. Klasky-Csupo is no longer active in the TV animation field. Family Guy now prefers working with Yearim Productions and Digital eMation. Nickelodeon hasn't used them in quite some time. In general, the studio doesn't have nearly as many projects as it once did, with almost all of them being made for domestic Korean audiences.
• Production Posse: Most of Klasky-Csupo's work was animated by Sunwoo and its divisions.
  • When Sunwoo was first formed, Disney wanted Sunwoo to work exclusively with them, but Sunwoo rejected the offer because they knew what potential there was for working with more than one studio. Still, Sunwoo did extensive work for Disney, working on most of their shows during the '90s and early 2000's.

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