Creator / Hanho Heung-Up

Hanho Heung-Up is a Seoul based South Korean animation studio founded in 1984. For years, the company has been doing overseas work for the productions of many North American and European animated films and TV series, as listed below.

Compare Toon City, Rough Draft Studios, AKOM and Wang Film Productions.

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Films and shows worked on by Hanho Heung-Up:

Original properties

• The Adventures of Lotty
• Dooly the Little Dinosaur (Original series, with additional animation by AKOM)
• The Flying Superboard
  • Sao Village (TV special)
• Guru Cabbage and Guru Radish's Once Upon a Time
  • Eunbi & Kabi's Once Upon a Time
• MBC-TV Campaign
• My Dear Daigoro
• A Pumpkin Tale
• Sam & Ghost Campaign
• Sun-Shining Tree

Outsourcing work - credited

• 101 Dalmatians: The Series (8 episodes)^List"Prophet and Loss", "Citizen Canine" (with Toon City), "Mooove It On Over", "Shrewzle Watch", "Spots and Shots", "The Good-Bye Chick", "De Vil-age Elder", "Jurassic Bark"
• Adventures in Odyssey (Animated Adaptation; with VisionArt)
• The Adventures of Tintin (with Lápiz Azul Animación for season 1)
• Aida of the Trees
• Allen Gregory (additional animation services for 4 episodes)^List"Pilot", "1 Night in Gottlieb", "Full Blown Maids", "Mom Sizemore"
• Anatane - The Children of Okura
• Animated Stories from the New Testament (with Mihahn)
  • Animated Stories from the Book of Mormon
  • Animated Stories from the Old Testament
  • Animated Stories from the Bible
• The Animatrix (Ink & Paint for "Matriculated")
• Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series
  • Anne: Journey to Green Gables
• Apple Candy Girl (Digital Paint)
• The Ark
• Babar (First 5 seasons only; replaced by RG Prince Films)
  • Babar: The Movie
• Bakuten Shoot Beyblade (Digital Paint through Kim Jung Soon, Park In Kyung, Kim Mi Jung, and Lee Hyo Sook; Movie)
• BattleVision
• Beetlejuice (season 4 only, with Wang Film Productions)
• Birdz
• Black Dynamite (2 episodes)^List"Apocalypse, This! Or for the Pity of Fools Aka Flashbacks Are Forever" (with Dong Woo), "Seed of Kurtis AKA Father Is Just Another Word for Motherf*cker"
• Blake and Mortimer
• Blazing Dragons
• Bob's Burgers (season 3 onward) ^List"An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal", "Mother Daughter Laser Razor", "O.T.: The Outside Toilet", "Boyz 4 Now", "Carpe Museum", "Uncle Teddy", "The Kids Rob a Train"
• Bob Morane
• Bordertown (6 episodes) ^List"Borderwall", "Groundhog Day", "Drug Lord", "Heart Attack", "La Fiesta Noche Show", "Viva Coyote"
• The Boy
• Brickleberry (17 episodes)^List"Hello Dottie" (additional animation with Big Jump Productions), "Miracle Lake", "The Comeback", "Woody's Girl", "Little Boy Malloy", "The Animals Strike Back", "Trip to Mars", "My Favorite Bear", "Obamascare", "In Da Club", "That Brother's My Father", "Write 'Em Cowboy", "Baby Daddy", "Steve the Fearless Pilot", "Amber Alert", "Cops and Bottoms", "Global Warning"
• A Bunch of Munsch (6 episodes)^List"Mortimer/Something Good", "Angela's Airplane/Fire Station" (with AKOM), "The Princess in the Paper Bag", "The Boy in the Drawer/Murmel Murmel Murmel", "Moira's Birthday/Blackberry Subway Jam"
• Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night
• The Busy World of Richard Scarry (season 1; seasons 2-5 by Wang Film)
  • The 1993 Richard Scarry direct-to-video animations
• The Care Bears Movie (additional production facility, with Wang Film, Mihahn and Delaney & Friends Productions)
  • The Care Bears Family
  • Care Bears Nutcracker Suite (with Wang Film)
• Castlevania (Animation Cleanup, Season 3)
• Channel Umptee-3
• China, IL (Season 3, Digital Animation Cleanup)
• Conan and the Young Warriors
• The Cramp Twins (season 4)
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (animated sequences; with Koko Enterprises and Ji-Reh Animation)
• Darkwing Duck (15 episodes)^List"Bad Luck Duck", "Clash Reunion", "Dirty Money", "Double Darkwings" (with Walt Disney Animation France), "Fraudcast News", "The Haunting of Mr. Banana Brain", "Inherit the Wimp", "Jail Bird", "Malice's Restaurant", "Mutancy on the Bouncey", "Paint Misbehavin'", "Quack of Ages", "Return of the Revenge of the Brainteasers, Too", "The Steerminator", "U.F. Foe"
• The Day the Sun Danced (with Mihahn)
• Dead Space: Downfall (additional animation with JM Animation and Digital eMation)
• Denver the Last Dinosaur (1989 season)
• Derrou Juniors
• Dino-Riders (Episodes 1-2 only with Mihahn, replaced by AKOM thereafter)
• Dixie's Diner (animated pilot) (with Mihahn)
• Dog City (Animated sequences)
• Doug (Nickelodeon seasons only)
• Duncanville (1 episode)^list"Sister Wife" (with Anipix)
• El Cid: The Legend (with Wang Film, A. Film, Jade Animation, Animation Service (HK), Canuck Creations, Toon Manila, Moro Studios, Time Lapse Studios, Animatoon, Monigoles Animación, Wiki Wiki Cartoons, Acció, Tridente Animation, Master's Work Studio, Tábano Arts and Animation, Taking Shape, King Carabao Animación, Bazley Films, Pigs in the Attic, Toon Time, VanHop! Animación, Fanciful Arts Animation, Toon Factory, Oddbody Animación, Animandus S.L., Jingjok Animation, Primecut Animación, Sopa de Sobre and XY/Carnitoons)
• Elysium (2003 film)
• Extreme Ghostbusters (6 episodes)^List"The Infernal Machine", "Killjoys", "Grease", "Grundelesque", "In Your Dreams", "Eyes of a Dragon"
• EyeToy Tales
• The Fantastic Flying Journey
• FernGully: The Last Rainforest (with Wang Film, Rough Draft Studios, Saerom, A. Film, Time Art Studios, Kroyer Films, Character Builders, Siam Mammoth Animation, The Baer Animation Company, Available Light Productions, Sidley-Wright & Associates, Karen Johnson Productions, The Chandler Group, Lumeni Productions, Pacific Title and Electric Filmworks)
• Firehouse Tales
• Fratellini
• Free Willy (Animated Adaptation)
• Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (Five episodes)^List"The Journey", "Runaways", "A Bronx Tale", "And Justice For All", "Generations"
• G.I. Joe: Renegades (With MOI Animation, DR Movie and JM)^List"Return of the Arashikage, Part 1", "Homecoming, Part 2", "Rage", "The Enemy of My Enemy", "Whiteout", "Shipwrecked", "Prodigal", "Cousins", "Revelations, Part 1"
• Gisaku (Digital Paint services)
• Globi and the Stolen Shadows
• Haiopeis
• Hercules (11 episodes)^List"Hercules and the Return of Typhon", "Hercules and the Hostage Crisis", "Hercules and the Argonauts", "Hercules and the All-Nighter", "Hercules and the Trojan War", "Hercules and the Minotaur", "Hercules and the Pegasus Incident", "Hercules and the Prom", "Hercules and the Long Nightmare", "Hercules and the Yearbook", "Hercules and the Big Show"
• Hocus Pocus! Story Pouch
• Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling (with Studio Shaft and Wang Film)
• Ivanhoe: The King's Knight
• Jules Verne's Amazing Journeys - Around the World in 80 Days
• Kid Paddle (with Armada TMT)
• The King and I (clean-up animation, digital compositing and digital ink & paint; with Colorland Animation, Canuck Creations, Giant Productions, Stardust Pictures, Monigoles Animation, Partners in Production and Pentafour Software)
• Kim Possible (6 episodes)^List"The Big Job", "Car Alarm", "Clothes Minded", "Mathter and Fervent", "The Mentor of Our Discontent", "Larry's Birthday",
• Kong: The Animated Series (Ink & Paint; for Philippine Animation Studio Inc.)
• The Legend of Korra (In-Betweens and Clean Up for Titmouse)
• Little Bear (seasons 1-4 and the movie; season 5 by Hong Guang)
• Little Rosey
  • The Rosey & Buddy Show (TV special)
• The Magic School Bus
• Mafalda
• Molierissimo
• Mot
• Muhammad: The Last Prophet (2002 film)
• Murder Police ^Note(Fox pulled the show before it could air; however, Hanho lists having worked on the show on its website)
• My Pet Monster (the Animated Adaptation)
• The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux
• The New Adventures of Ocean Girl (episodes 6-20)
• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (6 episodes)^List"The Good, The Bad and the Tiger", "Grown But Not Forgotten", "Shovel, Shovel, Toil and Trouble", "Cloud, Cloud, Go Away", "Piglet's Poohetry", "Owl's Well That Ends Well"
• Niko and the Sword of Light (with Titmouse)
• Nocturna
• Paradise PD (6 episodes)^list"Ass on the Line", "Black and Blue", "Dungeons and Dragnet", "Meet The Jabowskis", "Task Force", "Parent Trap"
• Orson & Olivia
• Ozter
• PollyWorld
• Project G.e.e.K.e.R. (Plus the opening) (5 episodes) ^List"In Space, No One Can Hear You Sneeze", "Geekasaurus", "A Thing Called Love", "Noble Savage", "Future Shock"
• Redwall (season 1 only, with Toutenkartoon, Animagic Studio, Dynomight Cartoons and Tridente Animation)
• The Revelation
• Rolling With Dad (pilot)
• Rover Dangerfield (Ink & Paint)
• Rupert
• Santa, Baby!
• The Scarecrow
• Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories (Season 2 only)
• Sonic Frontiers Prologue: Divergence
• Sonic Origins
• The Spectacular Spider-Man (10 episodes)^List"Survival of the Fittest", "Natural Selection", "Catalysts", "Uncertainty Principle", "Reinforcement", "First Steps", "Identity Crisis", "Probable Cause", "Subtext", "Final Curtain" (Plus the opening)
• Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (With Available Light)
• Star Wars: Droids (with Mihahn)
• Stickin' Around (season 3, with Canuck Creations)
• Stone Protectors
• Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins
• Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters
• The Swan Princess (First three films only)
• SWAT Kats (9 episodes of the first season. The other episodes and the entire second season were animated by Mook DLE)^List"The Giant Bacteria", "The Wrath of Dark Kat", "Destructive Nature", "The Metalikats", "Bride of the Pastmaster", "Chaos in Crystal", "The Ghost Pilot", "The Ci-Kat-A", "Enter the Madkat"
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• TaleSpin (one episode solo, "It Came from Beneath the Sea Duck"; 20 with Walt Disney Animation Japan)
• Technological Threat (Ink & Paint and Production Camera)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) short "Don vs. Raph" (Clean-Up and Paint for Titmouse)
  • "We Strike Hard & Fade Into the Night" (Animation Clean-Up)
• Tom and Jerry DTV film: "The Fast and the Furry"
• Tom & Sheenah (with Hahn Shin Corporation and ASHK)
• Toonstruck (with Rainbow Group)
• Toto Sapore and the Magic Story of Pizza (Key Animation, Clean-Up/Inbetween & Line Test)
• The Trumpet of the Swan
• Turbo F.A.S.T.
• Waynehead (with Philippine Animation Studio Inc.)
• When the Wind Blows (Additional Trace And Paint Services)
• The Wild Puffalumps (with Mihahn)
• WinneToons

Outsourcing work - uncredited

• Adventures of the Gummi Bears
• Agents of Mayhem
• Alvin and the Chipmunks
• Birchums, The (pilot)
• Bleu, l'enfant de la Terre
• Buzz and Poppy (traditional animation and ink and paint for the 1998 series only)
• The animated segment in Limp Bizkit's Boiler
• Cabbage Patch Kids: First Christmas
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
• Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos
• Clémentine (with Panmedia)
• Dennis the Menace (second season with Toei Animation)
• Dragon's Lair (Ruby-Spears series)
• Heidi (Additional Animation)
• Huntik: Secrets & Seekers
• It's Punky Brewster
• Maggie and the Ferocious Beast
• Marianne 1st (with Big Star)
• M.A.S.K. (with Ashi Productions, KK C&D Asia and others).
• Mirabelle and Me (TV special)
• Mister T
• Moi Renart
• The animated segment in Shakira's Objection
• Papyrus
• Phineas and Ferb
• The Pirate Family (aka Familie Pirate)
• The Real Ghostbusters
• Saturday Supercade (season 2)
• SilverHawks ^note additional animation work with AIC and Anime R
• The Simpsons (2007)
• Son of Zorn
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
• Thunder Cats ^note Like SilverHawks, additional animation work with AIC, Wang and Anime R (later seasons)
• Turbo Teen (with Toei)

Unconfirmed

• Disney Animated Canon^note presumably outsourced by the Florida and France studios.
  • The Rescuers Down Under
  • Pocahontas
  • Hercules
• The Transformers^note Season 2 episodes "The Core", "City of Steel" and "The Autobot Run" were handled by Mihahn; who were working with Hanho at the time. It is unclear if Hanho assisted them on these episodes.

Tropes associated with Hanho Hueng-Up's works:

• All-CGI Cartoon: The studio has one, Elysium (which is not to be confused with the 2013 film).
• Animation Bump: Most often occurs on features like FernGully, The Care Bears Movie, and The Chipmunk Adventure.
• Animesque: Anatane - The Children of Okura. Huntik, M.A.S.K, ThunderCats, SilverHawks and Clementine as well.
• Limited Animation: Much of its early-mid 1980s work like Mister T and Chuck Norris' Karate Kommandos.
• Unreliable Illustrator: Like all studios, Hanho has this issue from time to time. This was particularly evident during their TV work in the 1980s.
  • Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles in particular stands out for having subpar animation not only compared to the first two seasons, but also Hanho's other work for Disney and even Nelvana (which co-produced the season under contract from Disney), mainly due to a severely reduced budget and a staff that wasn't used to its art style.
  • Also, don't forget the errors in Redwall such as Winifred's sclera-less blue eyes and Bigwing being colored like Warbeak.
  • The animation on The Trumpet of the Swan was a major sticking point with critics, as it was generally agreed to be TV-level at best (when not just relying on rotoscoping), a far cry from the Big Budget Beef-Up that usually occurs with their feature film work.

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