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Here an original drawing of Aeon Flux by Peter Chung to one of his adoring fans at Comic-Con in 2005.
Peter Chung is a Korean American animator who is most famous for his creation, Aeon Flux which featured on MTV's Liquid Television and then aired as it's own 30 minute episode series. He is a man who was tired of the boundries/templates/rules set by Walt Disney and by Anime and Manga animation, so he broke those rules. And as far as examples of people who broke the rules go, this guy b r o k e the rules! Watch this.
He broke traditional animation styles, in the way this was animated but also in the plot lines, the dialogue or lack of it as the case may be here. He broke traditional methods of telling stories, Aeon Flux would die at the end of each episode for example, completely challenging the typical 'serial style' used in popular tv and film.
Compared to his other work on the Rugrats where he felt constrained buy the characters but also by the boundaries set in place by Nickelodeon and the standards of kids tv shows of the day. Some would say that Rugrats was quite an 'on the edge' childrens cartoon and there actually many theories about the show's hidden storylines, one being that there are no babies and they're all in Angelica's imagination they infact where all meant to have died at birth or in vitro and this is meant to explain the parents behaviour and also why Angelica can speak to both the babies and adults. I think that is going a bit far, but I think some of these theories are plausable because of Peter Chungs style of animation being quite quirky.
By watching the Rugrats however, you can see how Chung was trapped in a babies world with his animation and in an interview he expressed that his desire was to create athletic characters with long limbs. He wanted to create something that was super sexy and super cool and he certainly did that whilst blowing the rules out the water.
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