Ki Hyun Ryu

Ki Hyun Ryu is a television director of animated cartoons. He directed every episode of Book One: Air of The Legend of Korra, and also helped with character design for the episode "Jet" in the original series.

Television work

 * Batman: Year One (storyboard artist)
 * Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (character designer)
 * Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (in-between artist)
 * Random! Cartoons (overseas animation director)
 * Recess: School's Out (animator)
 * The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (storyboard artist)
 * The Boondocks (assistant director)
 * The Goode Family (storyboard artist)

Trivia

 * Ryu has been credited by Bryan Konietzko as the one who conceived fartbending, an airbending technique employed by Tenzin and Pema's son, Meelo.
 * Ryu's creative insight has been influencing the Avatar franchise for far longer than the beginning of Legend of Korra: he created the original character design of Jet, suggesting that he has had a part in the show since quite early in production.
 * Interestingly, Ryu's name has been worded as "Ryu Ki Hyun" by Konietzko on occasion, likely in concern to Ryu's Korean origin; Korean names are spoken in a format that starts with a surname, followed by the given name.