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Character design and story development for animation

Subin Yu 유수빈

I design characters that act, and draw the sequences they act in.

Animation artist in South Korea. I work on character design and story development, and I have drawn storyboards for Pororo, 똘똘이 and 총몇명.

Character Design Storyboards start here

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Selected work

Character design and original story come first. The commissioned storyboard credits follow.

Character lineup: an elderly teacher with an open book pointing a pencil at four children of different heights, drawn in colour pencil and digital paint on white.

Character design, 2019

Classroom Cast

A classroom of five characters, each with a different silhouette and age, and a study of one girl in three moods.
Four-panel comic page: a red sprout stands beside a brown bear in a sunny forest. The sky darkens and the grass fills with skulls while the sprout stands unchanged.

Story, 2019

Sprout & Stone

A wordless four-panel comic about a red sprout that cannot move and a moss-backed stone that can.
Model sheet of six characters in flat colour on a shared ground line, from an elderly mother to a tall boss in a grey suit, labelled in handwritten Korean.

Character design, 2026

총몇명, Model Sheet to Final Board

For two episodes of the YouTube animation channel 총몇명, the character sheets and the TVPaint storyboards were one assignment. Design the cast first, then board the acting.
Greyscale storyboard page: a continuous zoom-out from rose petals, to a photograph of a woman, to that photo as one tile on a monitor covered in surveillance images.

Storyboard, 2023

Stalking Prevention PSA

Greyscale boards for a public-interest anti-stalking campaign. The video plays, pauses and rewinds, and one long zoom-out changes what a photograph means.
Pencil storyboard frame: three faces behind an open book, an amazed girl, a smiling man and a laughing boy.

Storyboard, 2020

National Sports Museum, Two Directions

Two storyboards for the same museum promo with a father and his children. One begins with memories, the other with play. The project was cancelled before production.
Storyboard panel: a man and a boy walk toward a circus tent in a wide establishing shot, with a red 'IN' camera arrow.

Storyboard, 2015

The Travelling Circus

A complete 24-shot sequence in grey values with camera notation. A boy, a uniformed man and a circus tent, all original.
Storyboard page on a studio template: a one-point-perspective haunted hall with a chandelier, and a close-up of two glowing yellow eyes.

Storyboard, 2025-2026

Pororo Storyboard Credits

Production storyboards for Pororo musicals and songs (Iconix), drawn from detailed scripts that came with camera directions. More than 160 pages across four releases.

Storyboard credits

Freelance storyboard work on released productions, with the client, the studio and my role on each.

  1. Stalking Prevention PSA

    Storyboard and shot design, commissioned

    Client
    Jeonju Women's Hotline (전주여성의전화), public-interest campaign
    Role
    Storyboard artist: shot design, staging, camera and lighting notation
    Year
    2023

  2. National Sports Museum, Two Directions

    Advertising storyboard, two proposals, commissioned

    Client
    National Sports Museum promotional video (commissioned, unproduced)
    Role
    Storyboard artist: two full alternative boards, staging and shot design
    Year
    2020

  3. The Travelling Circus

    24-panel storyboard sequence, visual storytelling class final

    Client
    Student project (visual storytelling class), original
    Role
    Story, staging and drawing, all by Subin Yu
    Year
    2015

  4. Pororo Storyboard Credits

    Musical numbers and songs, 2D and 3D, commissioned via TOAST STUDIO

    Client
    Pororo (Iconix)
    Studio
    TOAST STUDIO (commissioning studio)
    Role
    Storyboard artist: staging, shot design, camera notation and timing from supplied scripts and camera directions
    Year
    2025-2026
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  5. 똘똘이 Nursery Songs

    Three song videos boarded from lyrics alone, commissioned via Cheesecake

    Client
    쫑알쫑알 똘똘이 (ToriTori)
    Studio
    Cheesecake (commissioning studio)
    Role
    Storyboard artist: scenes and actions composed from lyrics. Camera notation
    Year
    2020
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  6. Jeonbuk Childcare Integration Promotional Video

    Three short public-information pieces, commissioned via TOAST STUDIO

    Client
    Jeonbuk State Office of Education (전북특별자치도교육청)
    Studio
    TOAST STUDIO
    Role
    Storyboard artist
    Year
    2026
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  7. Jeonbuk National University Hospital, One-Minute Cancer Prevention Shorts

    Vertical 9:16 storyboards for short-form health videos

    Client
    Jeonbuk National University Hospital, regional cancer centre
    Role
    Storyboard artist (vertical short-form)
    Year
    2023

Commissions and studio inquiries

For commissions, studio roles or a portfolio review, email is the way to reach me.

[email protected] Contact

Résumé available on request by email.