• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.7
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• pp.7-27
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• 2003

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.5
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• pp.500-503
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• 2001

연구 주제는 우리 모두가 성자하면서 느끼고 경험했을, 그러나 고단한 일상 속에 파묻혀 잊고 지냈을, 유년시절의 이야기를 조그마한 시골지역을 비경으로 잔잔하게 그려내는 데 초점을 맞추었다. 도시에서 이사온 한 초등학생에게 시골마을은 제대로 포장된 도로도, 이층집도 없는 곳이었지만 주변에는 친구들과 뛰어 놀기에 부족함이 없는 경이로움으로 가득 찬 곳이었다. 이때의 느낌과 에피소드가 여러 장면 속에 봄부터 겨울까지 일년 사계절을 배경으로 담겨져 있다. 이런 의도 속에서 각 그림의 주제와 등장인물간의 조화를 맞추며, 각각의 그림은 개별적으로 독립적인 이야기를 담고 있으면서도 전체적으로 서로 연관된 고향이라는 주제의 하나의 이야기이다. 독특한 표현세계의 추구를 위한 기법연구로 한국화 기법을 만화와 접목을 통해 동양적인 정서와 회화적인 표현이 접목된 만화를 연구함으로써, 대중성과 예술성이 보완된 작품을 시도하고자 하였다. 과정 속에서 본인은 전형적인 우리나라 시골 어린이들의 생생한 감정과 동작의 움직임, 각가지 얼굴표정과 제스처를 만화적인 기법으로 표현하고자 하였으며, 한편으로는 그림의 배경이 되는 우리의 자연과 산하를 동양화 기법으로 특징을 잡아내고자 노력하였다. 이와 함께 독자의 이해를 높이기 위해 매 장면마다 그에맞는 이야기를 나레이션 형식으로 삽입하여 평면 작품으로 제작하였고, 또한 그 작품을 CD-ROM 속에 담음으로써 영상화된 화면에서 제작하고자 하였다. 이번 작품 제작을 통하여 본인의 의식 깊은 곳에 영향을 주고, 낳고 키워준 고향의 이야기들을 표현함으로 본인을 포함한 도시생활에 찌들어 있는 현대 대중들에게 위로와 휴식을 줄 수 있는 작품이 되고자 노력하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.34-39
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• 2004

물체의 반사(specular reflection)는 물체의 재질을 이해하는 중요한 실마리임과 더불어, 반사 영역의 모양은 국소적으로 물체의 기하학적 정보를 표시하는 중요한 부분이다. 기존의 비사실적 렌더링 분야에서 다루어져 왔던 만화적 표현 관련 연구들은 극도로 단순화된 쉐이딩 모델을 사용하여 모델의 상세도를 줄이는 방법을 사용하기 때문에 반사 효과와 같은 상세함을 표현하기에는 부족하다. 본 논문에서는 물체의 반사 영역을 만화적으로 표현하는 새로운 비사실적 렌더링 기법을 제안한다. 물체의 국소 반사 모델(local reflection model)을 사용하여 물체의 모든 정점에 대한 빛의 세기를 계산한 후, 반사 영역을 추출한다. 해당 반사 영역에 만화적으로 패턴화된 텍스처를 투영하여 반사 영역을 만화적인 느낌으로 표현한다. 본 논문에서 제시하는 결과는 국소 반사 모델의 계산을 사용하고 투영 텍스처(projective texture)를 이용하는 모델 공간(object space)의 계산으로, 오늘날 보편화되고 있는 그래픽 하드웨어의 가속 성능을 최대로 사용할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문의 연구결과는 실시간성이 매우 중요한 게임 등의 분야에서 만화적인 렌더링 기법을 적용하는데 사용할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.510-520
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• 2018

This study explored the phenomenon of heterosexual women embracing Boys' Love manga within the heteronormativity context from a feminist psychological perspective. Specifically, the issue of genre characteristics of Boys' Love manga, women's psychological mechanism of reading Boys' Love manga, and the functions and effects of embracing Boys' Love manga were discussed. As a theoretical framework of analysis, I started from the classical psychoanalysis and critically adopted the concepts of the various camps of feminism, queer theory, and Huizinga's Homo Rudens. The results show that Boys' Love manga can be classified as a sub-category of the romance genre, which fulfills heterosexual women's desires of eternal love and equal partnership. From these wish-fulfilling fantasies, heterosexual women attempt to be decontextualized from the heteropatriarchism, to enjoy distancing and voyeuristic separation from the characters in the texts, and to disturb the dichotomous gender system through gender reversal identification. These processes, which can be regarded as a women's play challenging sexual rigorism, ultimately bring about an awareness of the female sexual subjectivity.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.7
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• pp.68-76
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• 2007

The cartoon communicates its messages by cartoon semiotics as a vehicle of emotion, face expression, act, glance, and texts along the story. this style of communication showed in the cartoon can be defined as ${\ulcorner}$Cartoon communication style${\lrcorner}$. Since, the cartoon is cultural and social product, an understanding of ${\ulcorner}$Cartoon communication style${\lrcorner}$ plays a major role in understanding culture and society as well as its production and interchange. To understand what is the ${\ulcorner}$Cartoon communication style${\lrcorner}$, systemic and objective research method through ${\ulcorner}$Cartoon Analysis${\lrcorner}$ is required. The study review cognitive tendency of cartoon expression through semiotic analysis of total 30,081 cuts of Korea, and Japanese published cartoons and consequently, classifies the cartoons by 3 forms - One-Root, One-Idea and One-Style to encode.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.28
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• pp.55-78
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• 2012

Underground comics is a trend of comics started by reflecting hippie culture in the 1960's. It reflects hippie culture proclaiming return to nature and denying war with no humanity and social systems of material civilization expresses anti-culture in a radical and humorous way. Robert Crumb adds the features of hippie culture to comics aggressively with issuing comic book, series. Especially received great response from hippie. It became the chance for underground comics to improve further. includes works like 'Whiteman' expressing the hidden desire of conservative middle class or 'Keep on truckin' describing youths in hippie culture as characters lording it over somebody, strutting confidently across various landscape. The Comic was published and distributed independently and character-driven comic that reflected the variety of hippie culture. The Comic represented the characteristics of the underground comics very well. Winding lines and points, a strong contrast, were used for excellent graphical effect. These comics escaped from heroic comics of the era and played great roles in opening an era of underground comics which express satires of social culture more freely.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.18
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• pp.1-16
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• 2010

As manga is a genre characterized by combined use of letters and pictures, visual expression, that is style, is one of the most important representative elements, even beyond the structuring of the story. Shojo Manga (lit. Young girl's Manga) in particular is distinguished by visual style clearly differentiated from other manga genres. Shojo Manga uses a variety of unique techniques that cannot be found in other manga genres. The use of starry eyes in the depiction of the characters, taller than life characters, and the creative use of frames which disregard the traditional square shape are some examples. Therefore, the question arises of by whom and when such visual characteristics in Shojo Manga were created. This paper will analyze the figure of Nakahara Junichi (1913-1983), illustrator of Shojo magazines active between the 1930's and 1950's, and who as it has been stated in previous research, influenced the splendorous illustrations of Shojo Manga. Therefore, I will look for the commonalities and differences between Shojo Manga and Nakahara's oeuvre, shedding light on the origins of Shojo Manga and attempting to theorize the relationship existing between them.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.17
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• pp.97-115
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• 2009

Most films have not made by original storytelling. They get their storylines and themes from diverse sources such as novels, comics, performing arts, and previous film products. Comics have become a primary source for film production since 1960s in such nations as Japan and USA. In the contemporary period, this becomes a more visible trend in many countries including Korea, China, and France. Unlike novel, comics combine words with images. Since a comic strip isa graphic medium in which visible images are created in order to express a sequential narrative, it seems more relevant when films adapt original comics in order to recreate new products. The progress of 3D graphics technology enables film creators to realize imagined images in screen, most of which were once imagined only in comics. Keeping an eye on the strength of comics, this study tries to tries to investigate the relationship between a comic strip and its adaptation to film. It will firstly discuss the cases of comics in Korea, which are adapted to film in Korea. And this study will discuss "Le Grand Chef"as a case study in order to investigate what is the difference between original comics and film adaptation.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.32
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• pp.91-119
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• 2013

In recent years, the reader of comics get a chance to contact as well as korean comics, and foreign comics has increased to visibly. There was a relatively important progress also on international scale for mutual exchanges, but a variety of ways for the exposure of foreign comics can't help the reader to read easily the foreign comics. Socio-cultural differences also affects the choice of material, but it affects the format more fundamental. Format differences appear most, can be seen in the difference in narrative approach and medium (the book or the digital screen). This Article deals with two different comics, French and Korean comics. French comic is understood as other forms of literature, but the Korean is considered as a multi-media medium. This difference begins with cultural differences dealing with comics. It is also because the nature of the comics called hinge between the multi-media culture and culture of the books. This study will focus on the differences between the French comics which defend the value of the book and Korean Webtoons which suggest a new way in the digital environment. Through their differences, we can recognize the power of comics and can also predict its development in different medium.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.32
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• pp.159-187
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to verify the status of current digital comics research trends and the characteristics in Korea. For this purpose, 87 articles and dissertations published between 19900 to 2012 were analysed by a meta-analysis methods. Digital comics platforms, topics, methods were examined to understand the landscape of the digital comics in Korean context. The main results of this study are as follow. First of all, the number of researches on the digital comics has been in the rise, and the various academic journals have published articles to understand the digital comics on the basis of their own academic background. Despite of the short history of digital comics researches, the range of research subjects has been broaden, and more integrated approaches have been taken from the various research fields. The content of articles, however, was skewed to a certain platform, topic and the method such as the website based comics, the text analysis, and the qualitative methodology. Thus, the more systematic and integrated approaches are needed to understand the digital comics issues and to build up the digital comics studies.