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Dec 11, 2014 · The former Pixar art directors talk about their first independent collaboration and the challenges of striking out on their own.
Tonko House’s debut film directed by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi tells the story of Pig, an introverted youth who lives in a windmill and keeps a dark fog from engulfing his town. Although socially rejected by his peers, he is befriended by the artistic Fox.
May 11, 2015 · Directed by former Pixar art directors Robert Kondo and Daisuke (Dice) Tsutsumi, The Dam Keeper tells the story of young Pig who lives and works in a windmill perched high atop a huge dam on the edge of town. His job is to keep the windmill running and thereby keep the encroaching black fog at bay.
In 2012 Pixar art directors Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo wanted to expand their filmmaking experience. They decided to write and direct an independent animated short film together. The result was The Dam Keeper , a beautiful and emotional 18-minute film that earned an Academy Award nomination.
Oct 28, 2022 · On October 18, Sara Sampson, Robert Kondo, and Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi sat down with io9 to talk about their animation process and how they approached storytelling while keeping both children and...
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Oct 28, 2014 · I’ll start the interview by asking you both to introduce yourselves and then we’ll take it from there. DT: Well, my name is Dice Tsutsumi. RK: I’m Robert Kondo, and both of us are former art directors at Pixar. We’re directors of a short film we made last year called The Dam Keeper.
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Oct 21, 2022 · Tsutsumi and Kondo founded Tonko House in 2014, two years after making their first independent animated short film together as a way to expand their experience as filmmakers while working in...
