Creator / JM Animation

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Founded in 1997 by Joung Mee, a former production manager from Daewon Media, JM Animation was a Seoul based studio in South Korea, mostly known for doing most of Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender (alternating episodes with DR Movie in the first two seasons and Tiger Animation in the third). Following the completion of the series, several of the animators who worked on it left to found Studio Mir, which animated most of the Sequel Series The Legend of Korra. As of 2021, the company hasn't worked on any projects and presumably went out of business.

Compare Rough Draft Studios, AKOM, Plus One Animation, the aforementioned DR Movie, Hanho Heung-Up, Dong Woo Animation, Sunwoo & Company, Saerom and Digital eMation, other studios in South Korea.

Shows JM Animation has worked on include:

With Satelight

• AKB0048 (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Animal Detectives Kiruminzoo
• Arata: The Legend
• Basquash! (In-Between Animation)
• Bodacious Space Pirates (2nd Key, Key & In-Between Animation)
• Fairy Tail (2nd Key & In-Between Animation)
• Genesis of Aquarion (2nd Key, Key & In-Between Animation; Digital Paint; Background Assistance; Composite; Production Assistance)
  • Aquarion Evol (Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Macross Frontier (Key Animation)
  • Macross Zero (Ink & Paint)
• Noein (Digital Paint; In-Between Animation)

Main studio (Other)

• Avatar: The Last Airbender (32 episodes)^List"The Boy in the Iceberg", "The Avatar Returns", "The Warriors of Kyoshi", "Imprisoned", "The Waterbending Scroll", "Jet", "The Storm", "The Fortuneteller", "The Deserter", "The Waterbending Master", "The Siege of the North Part 2", "The Cave of Two Lovers", "The Swamp", "The Blind Bandit", "Zuko Alone", "The Library", "The Serpent's Pass", "City of Walls and Secrets", "Appa's Lost Days", "The Earth King", "The Crossroads of Destiny", "The Headband", "Sokka's Master", "The Avatar and the Firelord", "The Puppetmaster", "The Day of Black Sun Part 1", "The Western Air Temple", "The Boiling Rock Part 1", "The Ember Island Players", "Sozin's Comet Parts 1, 3, and 4"
• The Boondocks (season 3, with Moi) (alongside Madhouse, Dong Woo Animation and Lotto Animation)
• DC Showcase: Jonah Hex
• Dead Space: Downfall (With Hanho and Digital eMation)
• Dante's Inferno: The Animated Epic (Anger, The City of Dis, Heresy, Violence & Fraud segments. Movie animated alongside Moi Animation, Dong Woo, Production I.G, Manglobe and Film Roman^note With Big Star & Digital eMation)
• G.I. Joe: Renegades (with Moi, DR and Hanho, also provided the main title sequence)^List"The Descent, Part 1", "Return of the Arashikage, Part 2", "Homecoming, Part 1", "Dreadnoks Rising", "Brothers of Light"
• Green Lantern: Emerald Knights - "Laira" segment; movie animated with Studio 4°C.
• Random! Cartoons: Bravest Warriors and Adventure Time pilots; Victor
• The Secret Saturdays
• Tai Chi Chasers (With Toei Animation)
• Young Justice (2010)

Support studio (Other)

• Cardfight!! Vanguard (Key & In-Between Animation; Paint)
• Demonbane (Key, 2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Gantz (Key & In-Between Animation)
• Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (Key Animation)
• Linebarrels of Iron (Key & In-Between Animation)
• Live On Card Live R Kakeru (Key Animation)
• Monochrome Factor (In-Between Animation and Digital Paint for Studio Comet's episodes)
• Moonlight Mile (2nd Key Animation)
• Persona 4: The Animation (2nd Key, Finish & In-Between Animation)
• Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior (Backgrounds)
  • Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (Backgrounds)
• They Are My Noble Masters (Key & In-Between Animation)

Tropes Associated With JM Animation:

• Animation Bump: The studio is labeled as one of the better studios in South Korea.