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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.
- 'Oni: Thunder God's Tale' Creators on Bringing An 'Authentic Voice' to Show
- On The Animation Process
- Working with Anime Icon Mari Okada
- The Possibility of A Sequel
"I'm a Japanese native who has worked in this industry for a couple of decades, I was born and raised in Japan and growing up and working in the business as a sort of a foreign filmmaker, or the Japanese filmmaker [in America], I always had this dream of making [a] culturally specific Japanese-themed story someday," Tsutsumi told Newsweek. "We don'...
The animation studio likes to "find a simplicity" with their characters during the creative process, Tsutsumi said, but a lot of hard work and thought went into making characters like Onari, her father Naridon (Craig Robinson) or her teacher Mr. Tengu (George Takei). Tonko House started working on the series remotely during the COVID pandemic in Au...
Mari Okada, the creative mind behind anime classics like Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day and Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms, helped to write ONI: Thunder God's Tale, something Tsutsumi admitted he didn't think would ever happen. "We were huge fans of Mari Okada before we met her, and the type of stories that Tonko House has always purs...
Reflecting on the series and how Onari's world comes face to face with the real world, Tsutsumi said they were keen to look beyond the surface of the tales in Japanese folklore. "From the beginning, the concept of ONI,the way we sort of started this whole concept of the story, was that in Japanese folklore the Oni is always the villain character," ...
Oni: Thunder God's Tale (Japanese: ONI ~ 神々山のおなり, Hepburn: ONI: Kamigamiyama no Onari) is an animated [1] fantasy television limited series created by Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi for Netflix.
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 ...
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Tonko House LLC is an independent animation studio located in Berkeley, California, founded in July 2014 by former Pixar art directors, Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi. [1]
Oct 20, 2022 · Tsutsumi and Kondo are known for the painterly quality of their work. After leaving Pixar, they gained recognition for their 2014 animated short “The Dam Keeper,” which was nominated for an...
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Oct 21, 2022 · ONI: Thunder God’s Tale, which releases on Netflix Friday, October 21, is the first animated series from Tonko House, founded by Tsutsumi and ONI’s executive producer Robert Kondo in 2014 after the release of Tsutsumi’s Oscar-nominated short The Dam Keeper.
