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.