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Jennifer Yuh Nelson, also known as Jennifer Yuh (born May 7, 1972), is a South Korean-born American director and storyboard artist. She is best known for her directorial debut ''Kung Fu Panda 2''. Yuh is the first woman to solely direct an animated feature from a major Hollywood studio. She won an Annie Award for Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production for directing the opening for ''Kung Fu Panda'' and was the second woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, for her work on ''Kung Fu Panda 2''. After the film proved to be the most financially successful directed by a woman, Yuh is now returning to direct ''Kung Fu Panda 3'', which will be released in 2016. ==Biography and work== Yuh was born in 1972 in South Korea and immigrated to the United States with her parents and two sisters when she was 4 years old. Yuh spent her childhood in Lakewood, California, where she enjoyed watching martial arts movies, playing with cars, and drawing. "I have been drawing since age 3 and making movies in my head for almost as long. In fact, drawing for me was a way to express those films when I had no other means of doing so," said Yuh. As a young girl, she would sit at the kitchen table for hours and watch her mother draw, copying her every stroke. As a kid, she would fancy stories with her sisters and was learning to draw to get down those stories. Yuh traces the lineage of her career to those formative family experiences. Interested in art, Yuh followed her sisters to California State University, Long Beach, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration.〔 There she got introduced to animation, "When I was in college years later, a veteran storyboard artist came to talk to my class. He showed us how he drew movies for a living. My mind exploded. And that led to a career in animation."〔 Jennifer then followed her sisters into an animation business - at first as a cleanup artist at Jetlag Productions, where she worked on various direct-to-video features.〔 In 1997, she got hired as a storyboard artist on HBO's ''Todd McFarlane's Spawn'' series. In 1998, Yuh joined DreamWorks Animation as a storyboard artist, while her sister, Catherine Yuh Rader,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1170179/ )〕 also a storyboard artist, had joined DWA owned PDI. Jennifer worked then on ''Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron'', ''Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas'' and ''Madagascar''. As a big fan of martial arts movies, she asked to work on the first ''Kung Fu Panda'' film, where she was a head of story, and directed the hand-drawn dream sequence.〔 After the release of ''Kung Fu Panda'', Jeffrey Katzenberg, DWA's CEO, approached Yuh about directing ''Kung Fu Panda 2''. Although she hadn't expressed interest in directing the animated movie, the movie's producers felt that she was the right choice for the job. The film proved a major critical and international box office success with a worldwide gross of $665.6 million, making it the highest-grossing film ever directed by a woman, until director Jennifer Lee's ''Frozen'' two years later. She eventually became the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film (since 2007's ''Persepolis'') and to win the Annie Award for Best Directing in a Feature Production. Jennifer will return for ''Kung Fu Panda 3'', which will be released in 2016 and will be the first American animated film to ever been co-produced with a Chinese firm. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jennifer Yuh Nelson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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