Heejin Kim

Heejin Kim

Crew Information Gender: Female ♀ Job: Background layout artist Status: Active Number of episodes: 162 Seasons active: Season 15 - Present First short: Playdate with Destiny Most recent short: The Force Awakens from Its Nap First episode: "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" Most recent episode: "Guess Who's Coming to Skinner" Movie: The Simpsons Movie

Heejin Kim, also credited as Hee-jin Kim and Jin Hee Kim, is an animator. She currently serves as a background layout artist for The Simpsons.

Credits

Background layout

Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" Episode – "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Episode – "Smart and Smarter" Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories" Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather" Episode – "Wedding for Disaster" Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh" Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure" Episode – "Pranks and Greens" Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie" Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams" Episode – "The Great Simpsina" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" Episode – "Replaceable You" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" Episode – "Them, Robot" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" Episode – "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda" Episode – "Moonshine River" Episode – "Gone Abie Gone" Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School" Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "Dark Knight Court" Episode – "What Animated Women Want" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "The Saga of Carl" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Married to the Blob" Episode – "Specs and the City" Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" Episode – "The Winter of His Content" Episode – "The War of Art" Episode – "Days of Future Future" Episode – "Brick Like Me" Episode – "Pay Pal" Episode – "Clown in the Dumps" Episode – "Super Franchise Me" Episode – "Simpsorama" Episode – "Blazed and Confused" Episode – "Covercraft" Episode – "Bart's New Friend" Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" Episode – "Sky Police" Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight" Episode – "Bull-E" Episode – "Puffless" Episode – "Barthood" Episode – "Much Apu About Something" Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" Episode – "Simprovised" Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" Episode – "The Town" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" Episode – "There Will Be Buds" Episode – "Pork and Burns" Episode – "A Father's Watch" Episode – "Moho House" Episode – "The Serfsons" Episode – "Springfield Splendor" Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be" Episode – "Gone Boy" Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage" Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues" Episode – "Forgive and Regret" Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane" Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" Episode – "Bart's Not Dead" Episode – "Werking Mom" Episode – "Krusty the Clown" Episode – "Daddicus Finch" Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" Episode – "101 Mitigations" Episode – "E My Sports" Episode – "Girl's in the Band" Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh" Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion" Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast" Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" Episode – "Better Off Ned" Episode – "I, Carumbus" Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch" Episode – "Podcast News" Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry" Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" Episode – "Uncut Femmes" Episode – "Burger Kings" Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 1)" Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers" Episode – "The Sound of Bleeding Gums" Episode – "Habeas Tortoise" Episode – "Top Goon" Episode – "Fan-ily Feud" Episode – "The Very Hungry Caterpillars" Episode – "McMansion & Wife" Episode – "Murder, She Boat" Episode – "Lisa Gets an F1" Episode – "Night of the Living Wage" Episode – "The Tell-Tale Pants" Episode – "The Tipping Point" Episode – "Women in Shorts" Episode – "Homer and Her Sisters" Episode – "Bottle Episode" Episode – "Yellow Planet" Episode – "Estranger Things" Episode – "Keep Chalm and Gary On" Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Prop designer

• Episode – "Future-Drama"

• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII"
• Episode – "Little Orphan Millie"

• Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"

• Episode – "That '90s Show"

• Episode – "Mona Leaves-a"

• Episode – "'Cue Detective"

• Episode – "The Burns Cage"

• Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back"

Lead background layout

Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" Episode – "All About Lisa" Episode – "MyPods and Boomsticks" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Episode – "Boy Meets Curl" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas" Episode – "Kamp Krustier" Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" Episode – "Bart the Bad Guy" Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds" Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?" Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion" Episode – "The Star of the Backstage" Episode – "You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!" Episode – "Poorhouse Rock" Episode – "The King of Nice" Episode – "From Beer to Paternity" Episode – "Bartless" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" Episode – "Do the Wrong Thing" Episode – "Clan of the Cave Mom" Episode – "Bart's Birthday" Episode – "Convenience Airways" Episode – "Abe League of Their Moe" Episode – "Bart 'N' Frink" Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Skinner"

Digital ink and painter

• – The Simpsons Movie

Background layout/design

• Special – Playdate with Destiny

• Special – The Force Awakens from Its Nap

External links

• Heejin Kim at the Internet Movie Database

Background designers

Current background designers Lynna Blankenship • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Jabu Henderson • TJ Kim • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Mark Mulgrew • Debbie Peterson • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Javier Pineda • Charles Ragins • Chris Stephen Sentovich • Lance Wilder Former background designers Ben Anderson • Alvaro Arce • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Chris Bolden • Andy Chen • Chad E. Cooper • Seth Cooper • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Alexander C. Dilts • Edgar Duncan • Tria Ellison • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Ernesto Escobar • Dillon Froelich • Sarah Frost • Ed Ghertner • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Sam Ho • Gary Hoffman • Trevor Johnson • John Krause • Christian Lignan • John Liu • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Walter Mancia • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Kevin N. Moore • Phil Ortiz • John Pattison • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Gerald Clifford Rey • Dean Scammahorn • George Taylor • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich • Phillip O. Yeo Other background designers Geoffrey Anderson • David Beall • Ryan Cheetham • Andrew DeLange • Charles Garcia • John Gibson • Tim Hwang • Heejin Kim • Roman Laney • John Seymore • Robert Soussana • George Stokes • Antonio Torres • Arnel Torres • Lindsay Woods

Background layout artists

Current background layout artists Ben Anderson • Geoffrey Anderson • Ryan Cheetham • Andy Chen • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Dillon Froelich • Sam Ho • Heejin Kim • John Liu • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Javier Pineda • Gerald Clifford Rey • George Stokes • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Doug Walker • Phillip O. Yeo Former background layout artists John Achenbach • Young Baek • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Sue Bielenberg • Lynna Blankenship • Jennifer Bogartz • Chris Bolden • Brent M. Bowen • Andrew Burrell • Mark Bykov • Mike Camarillo • Paul Castro • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Chad E. Cooper • Alfred "Tops" Cruz • Carol Delmindo Datuin • Peter J. DeLuca • Claude Denis • Alexander C. Dilts • Arnold Doong • Edgar Duncan • Eric Dunn • Mark Ervin • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Sarah Frost • Tricia Garcia • Monette Goldman • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Jake Hempe • Jabu Henderson • Gary Hoffman • Jeremy Horn • Mark Howard • Drew Johnson • Trevor Johnson • Dave S. Karoll • Atanas Karpelas • Kui Yong Kim • TJ Kim • Young Kim • John Krause • Nancy Kruse • John Lindauer • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • John Mathot • Pete Michels • Larry Miravalles • Jeff Myers • Matthew Nastuk • Carlos Nieto III • John Pattison • Debbie Peterson • Mike Frank Polcino • Cameron Porter • Charles Ragins • Becca Ramos • Jerry Richardson • Denis Rychlick • Rick Salonga • Dean Scammahorn • Peter Shin • Cole Shortt • Steve Smith • Chad Stewart • Tuck Tucker • Scott Uehara • Don Vanderbeek • Cliff Voorhees • Jefferson R. Weekley • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich Other background layout artists James P. Alles • Galina Budkin • Edgar Carlos • Derek Carter • Namsuk Cho • Randol Eagles • Natalie Franscioni Karp • Rodel Gravo • Lam Hoang • Cynthia Ignacio • Arlan Jewell • Hyung-Ki Kim • Yeon-Ju Kim • Alex J. Lee • Ashley Lenz • Juan Luna • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Gary Mouri • Mark Mulgrew • Gang Peng • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Jonathan Pyun • Gerald Clifford Rey • Choun-Wung Son • Thomas Starnes • Allen Tam • Danny Taverna • Kevyn L. Wallace • Wallace Williamson • Chad Woods • Chung Sup Yoon • Jennifer Yuan

Prop designers

Current prop designers Darrel Bowen • Seth Cooper • John Krause • Kevin N. Moore • Ernie Ochoa • Jefferson R. Weekley Former prop designers Brent M. Bowen • Andrew Burrell • Daniel Chiu • Jarod Daetwiler • Lance Falk • Matthew Faughnan • Lucas Gray • Heejin Han • Ken Harsha • Dale Hendrickson • Sam Ho • Trevor Johnson • Heejin Kim • Alexandra Kube • John MacFarlane • Richard Manginsay • Kevin M. Newman • Mike Pettengill • John Rice • Tommy Tejeda • Bill Thyen • Joe Wack Other prop designers Lynna Blankenship • Liz Craig • Christy DeHoog • Lindse Fletcher • Nathan Gammill • Phillip Hartmann • Mark Mulgrew • Brent Noll • Gene Warren III