Are there books on animation outsourcing?
Start with the Wikipedia entry on Korean animation. During the 1990s, a period of explosive growth for the industry, Korean studios made the lion’s share of their profits from “OEM animation,” or animation production deals, mostly from the United States. Nelson Shin’s AKOM studio struck the prototypical Korean OEM deal in 1989, when it animated the first season of The Simpsons television series. The Korean Animation Explosion The New Studios and the `90s Boom Like all businesses, success breeds competition, and there is nowhere more competitive when it comes to business than Asia. The `90s saw a rash of new studios enter the scene. Disney Television brought its shows to a new, bright and aggressive studio called Sun Woo. In 1991, Michael Webster, who was then in charge of production for Disney Television Animation, told me that Sun Woo was producing som
