Kang Kim
Director, Designer at studio zazac,inc
Glendale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKang Min Kim is a multi-award-winning Korean filmmaker and designer based in Los Angeles, with eight years of professional experience creating handcrafted stop-motion and motion-graphics work. His independent shorts—including Deer Flower and KKUM—have premiered at Sundance and won top prizes at Aspen, Melbourne, and Ottawa, where KKUM uniquely captured both the grand prize and audience award. As founder and creative director of studio zazac and a recurring visiting lecturer at institutions like CalArts and RISD, he blends artistic leadership with hands-on direction, fabrication, and compositing. His work is notable for combining tactile puppet-based stop motion with meticulously designed backgrounds and motion graphics, often exploring personal memory—currently as a stop-motion trilogy rooted in his own past. He has collaborated across commercial, festival, and gallery contexts, contributing to music videos, commercials, and festival identity pieces while maintaining an independent auteur voice. Based in Glendale, CA, Kang Min pairs formal training (MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts) with a rare track record of competing alongside major studios at the highest animation awards.
8 years of coding experience
BFA, MFA, experimental animaion, BFA, MFA, experimental animaion at California Institute of the Artscommunication design, communication design at Samsung Art and Design Institute
Korean, English
Github Skills (7)
api6
spring-boot6
java5
theme-customizer5
mysql4
customizer3
eclipse2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zzangkkmin/TIL
Oct 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
Bulbas23r/SpartaLogistic
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
내배캠 백앤드 심화 3기 23조 프로젝트
Contributions:21 reviews, 23 PRs, 49 pushes in 9 days
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