For twelve years, Robert Kondo worked at Pixar as an art director on films like Ratatouille, Toy Story 3, and Monsters University.
Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi has worked as an artist at Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age and Robots) and as an art director at Pixar (Toy Story 3 and Monsters University).
Together, Kondo and Tstutsumi directed the 2015 Oscar-nominated short The Dam Keeper and then founded their own studio, Tonko House.
Originally from Southern California, Robert Kondo graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and has worked at Oblique Strategies and Angel Studios. Robert's film credits include Sets Art Director for Ratatouille, Toy Story 3, and most recently Monsters University. He is the co-director (along with Dice Tsutsumi) of the award-winning animated film The Dam Keeper.
Dice Tsutsumi, originally from Japan, is a celebrated illustrator, painter, and philanthropist. Dice's paintings have exhibited around the world, and in 2009, his first children's book
I Can Hear was published in Japan. A graduate from The School of Visual Arts in New York, Dice has worked as a visual development/color key artist at Blue Sky Studios on
Ice Age,
Robots and
Horton Hears a Who! His credits at Pixar Animation include Lighting Art Director for
Toy Story 3 and
Monsters University. Dice is passionate about charity work and spearheaded both The Totoro Forest Project and Sketchtravel. He is the co-director (along with Robert Kondo) of the award-wining animated film
The Dam Keeper.
