What is Nelson Shin?
{{Infobox person | name = | image = | image_size = | caption = | native_name = 신능균<br>申奈舜 | birth_name = Shin Neung-kyun | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1939}} | birth_place = [[Pyongsan]], [[Hwanghae|Hwanghae Province]], [[Korea under Japanese rule|Chōsen]] {{small|(now Pyongsan, [[North Hwanghae]], [[North Korea]])}} | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = South Korean | occupation = Animation director, producer | years_active = 1970–present | website = }} '''Shin Neung-kyun''' (born 1939), also known as '''Nelson Shin''', is an animation director. He is the founder and president of [[AKOM|Akom Production Co., Ltd.]], in [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]]. He founded Akom in 1985. == Career == In the 1970s, Shin worked as an animator at the [[DePatie–Freleng Enterprises]] and [[Marvel Productions]]. This is where he worked on the ''[[The Pink Panther (film series)|Pink Panther]]'' [[Film|films]] and ''[[Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981 TV series)|Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends]]''. While at DFE, he also helped the animation of the [[lightsaber]] blades in the original ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''. Much of the [[animation]] Shin's studio has produced were for American [[Television program|television series]]. Some of Akom's credits are: ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]'', ''[[The Simpsons]]'', ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', ''[[X-Men: The Animated Series|X-Men]]'', ''[[Invasion America]]'' and ''[[Arthur (TV series)|Arthur]]''. Shin's most well-known accomplishment is his direction of the television series ''[[The Transformers (TV series)|The Transformers]]'' and ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. Shin also directed the first season of the Canadian animated TV series, ''[[Toad Patrol]]''. Beginning in 1999, Shin worked on the animated feature film ''[[Empress Chung]]''. The movie was largely animated in [[North Korea]]. In August 200