Author Introduction : Rockhe Kim
Rockhe Kim was highly interested in three dimensional sculptures and drawings since he was a little kid. He preferred superhero genres than Japanese cartoons, so he always watched Superman and Batman TV series on Sundays. As for the actors, he liked powerful characters with muscular bodies, just like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hanging around with a friend whose dream was to become a cartoonist, naturally he started to dream of being a cartoonist himself as well. He gained practical experience from animation company and film storyboard company as he turned twenty years old, and draw as much as he would like to after he went to the university. From this portfolio he had built, he was selected as a writer for the national support projects and able to carve out a career in the U.S. comics industry and until now, he has been working nonstop by drawing various illustrations and concept art work for domestic and foreign market.
He obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Comics and Animation Tech at Sejong University, and published the paper A Study on Features of Drawing American Superhero Comics. He participated in Batman series of Lotto Animations and film storyboards of the movie Castaway On The Moon(2009) and Blades Of Blood(2010). He won an excellence award in 8th Korea Comics Contest for his short animation JungSun Arirang, and was selected as a supporting writer for ‘K-Comics Global Co-creation Work’, sponsored by KOMACON(Korea Manhwa Contents Agency). He serialized the feature-length cartoon film X-FORCE in American comics MARVEL, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Infinity: Against The Tide for short cartoons. Some of his cover illustrations include: Age of Ultron, The Incredible HULK, Spider Man: Amazing Fantasy, Black Panther: Agents Of Wakanda and more. On top of that, he has worked for various domestic and foreign game concept art. He continues to work as an illustrator and is operating his Youtube channel of anatomy drawing, ‘Rockhe kim’.