User:Jessieyun0404

Jessie Yun (born April 4th, 2000) is a High School Student, living in Seoul, South Korea. She participates and works on various projects, mainly as a voice actor, but also a director, composer, and a writer.

Personal Life
Jessie was born and raised in Seoul. She once lived in Jeju for 9 years but came back to Seoul recently and become a High School Student.

During her early life, Jessie naturally learned to speak English fluently with some English learning elements such as Audiobooks, Animation, and Audio Dramas. She also watched many Disney and Pixar animations, growing her dream to become a voice actor. She also had an opportunity to learn and experience a lot of artistic elements, such as playing an instrument, attending in a children's choir, and being a member of a school orchestra. With these experiences, she naturally enhanced her knowledge of composing music and other creating activities like writing, directing, and voice acting.

Career
Jessie stepped into her career in 2014. She recorded audiobooks and small recording projects for a start, and also released her first shorts movie, "A Warm World" for her school. After moving to Seoul, Jessie expanded more and stepped into the career of creating audio dramas and voice acting. Starting her first audio drama "A Christmas Carol", she participated in different small voice acting projects. And in 2017, she stepped into the Animation and Film industries, after releasing her first demo reel in Newgrounds in the early year. She received many projects from various production groups, and now currently keeping her career until this day.

Librivox
Librivox was her very first start of her creating career. She wanted to play the characters inside the book (Dramatic Readings), as well as creating one (Book Coordinator). She recorded various roles including Aouda in "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne, as well as directed some audiobook projects like "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Dramatic Reading.

Team Pi Series
According to Jessie, she said Team Pi - the animation series - is one of her best projects she ever participated. According to the Team Pi Series Wiki, she met the director named rsonbie in July 2017, and voiced the main protagonist named Pi and also Talgi in the earliest episodes. She also wrote some stories for the pre-production episodes, also working as an adviser and storyboard creator.

"Herobrine Origins" Prequel Film
Jessie's very first animated film was "Origins Untold", one of the prequel films from the "Herobrine Origins" franchise. Jessie said that this was one of her biggest projects of all time in 2017, as well as her first horror/thriller/war film. She was casted as Sally Briggs in December 2017, a wife of Frederick Briggs who is a main protagonist in the film. The film was released on January 19th, 2018 in the Elite Productions YouTube Channel.

The Archer Girl Series
Being inspired by cinematic scores, Jessie was always fond of creating cinematic tracks with stories. In September 2015, she was featured on the Music Maker Jam community by creating music with the perfect story that fits, and based on one of her talents, she created The Archer Girl Series, based on her pure composing skills with mobile DAWs. One of her earliest tracks were featured in Newgrounds, and received many fans. Ending the first season of the series in Fall 2017, Jessie announced that season 2 will be up starting 2019.

April 16th : The Musical
Jessie had an interview with Deutsche Welle Newspaper on April 2017, talking about her musical project, "April 16th : The Musical". Below are the contents from the newspaper article. "Jessie (Jisu Yun), who was a middle school student on the island at the time when the Sewol Ferry Disaster occured in April 16th, 2014, heard about the accident on the morning news. 'It was a great shock for me that over 300 high school students drowned on a trip to Jeju Island, and that I lived on that island,' Jisu said. 'It impacted me greatly and since then, I can't forget it.'""She began in May 2016 and the project was completed in March. She was able to recruit composers and musicians from around the world to participate after posting an article about her idea online.""'I posted an article about this album project in a site called Newgrounds where creators gather to make projects,' she said. 'I was worried that no one would volunteer to help me, but some composers read the story and contacted me, so it went better than I expected.'""The songs on the album are all instrumental; two of them she composed herself. The album titled April 16th (0416) can be seen on YouTube. It contains 14 tracks and is interspersed with news reports from the incident read in English.""Jisu has not yet had any contact with survivors of families of victims - even though the album is somewhat intended for them. For her personally, the album was a way to cope with her own feelings about the Sewol tragedy.""'It was painful at the beginning,' she said. 'But the album gave me comfort by sharing this sad disaster with others. It was like the famous saying, 'Sharing joy increases joy, sharing sorrow decreases sorrow.''""The initial reaction to April 16th (0416) have been positive said Jisu. 'Many people were amazed at my work, and asked me how I could have done this by myself,' she said. 'And they also gave their own condolences to the victims and said that they would never forget the tragedy.'"She also participated in the interview with Korea Times, as well as the radio interview in the TBS English Radio Program, "Koreascape" on April 15th.

NGAP15 Casting Director
On February 2018, Jessie started to work as a Casting Director for the Newgrounds Audio Drama, celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the Audio Portal. She also started to work as a voice actor by playing Nene, the major mascot of Newgrounds.

ReadIt Application Writer
Jessie received a request from BendingSpoons, mobile application developing company from Italy, to write a horror chat story for the application, "ReadIt". Jessie wrote one story called "The Truck's Curse".

Game Story Writer
The Sci-Fi Text Adventure Game named "Lakota" is Jessie's first writing project as a game. She is currently developing a story for the small Indie game team and planning to release the game on 2018. She also started to work as a writer with Umbrella Initiative on creating a fantasy game on February 2018, which is also her second paid writing project.

A Film Adaption Novella "BRINE"
After Jessie worked with Elite Productions as a voice actress, she decided to create a novelized version of the film called "BRINE", which is one of the prequel films in Herobrine Origins. She started working on the novella starting January 10th, planning it to publish on Amazon and iTunes at the end of February.

Trivia

 * Jessie's real name is Jisu Yun.
 * Jessie loves movies, especially Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Her favorites are Star Wars, Interstellar, The Chronicles of Narnia and the Hobbit series.
 * Jessie dreams to have a job in the Animation Film Industries.
 * Her favorite hobby is voice acting.