TONKOCAST

Dice Tsutsumi and Erick Oh sat together to have a conversation about OSCAR shortlisted animation 'OPERA'. OPERA is a massive 8K size animation piece which reflects our human society. Let's hear how Erick created this ambitious project. This interview will be up until March 15th.

One of our production team members, Kenneth Mallari interviewed three incredible storytellers, Bradley Furnish, Ryusuke Villemin, and Toshi Nakamura.

They are the core team in creating our new Tonko House Original Series, Acorns.

We have created a new Acorns YouTube Channel, http://bit.ly/WatchAcorns

Episodes are coming soon! So please subscribe!

Acorns Creators:

Written & Directed by Bradley Furnish

Produced by Ryusuke Villemin

Animation - Toshi Nakamura

Based on the original idea by Robert Kondo

The Acorns Project is the story of three small acorns on a journey to become great great oak trees. It has become the journey of our small studio to test the limits of what we can do as filmmakers and animators. We want to connect with our audience through these stories and inspire curiosity throughout the world.

Everyone at some point goes through a life changing transition. The existence of these acorns are the perfect encapsulation of this: Small acorns spread far away with the power of nature, root down to the earth, and then transform into mighty trees many times their original size, and thus starts a new journey.

What journey is waiting for the acorns?

For this Tonkocast-- our Producer, Sara Sampson had the incredible opportunity to interview Emmy Award Winner Celine Desrumaux! In this interview Celine talks about her journey as an artist, the transition to working from home, & her thoughts on certain trends in animation. We hope you enjoy!

Celine is currently working on Glen Keane's upcoming animated film Over the Moon as the Production Designer and has worked on projects such as The Little Prince, SGT. Stubby, Back to the Moon; and her Production Design work on Age of Sail won the 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.

More Details on Over the Moon:

Over the Moon is an upcoming American-Chinese computer-animated adventure musical comedy film directed by Glen Keane and co-directed by John Kahrs in their directorial debut. The film is produced by Pearl Studio with animation by Sony Pictures Imageworks. The film is scheduled for a late 2020 release on Netflix.

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We had the incredible opportunity to interview Graham Annable in our latest Tonkocast!

His passion for comics lead him to a range of fantastic opportunities involving the comic book, video game, & film industry.

Today's Tonkocast guest is the one and only Kevin Dart, he is the Creative Director of Chromosphere.

Please listen as Robert and Kevin talk about their time at Pixar, starting Chromosphere, and their future projects.

Our Production designer, Mike Dutton interviewed two incredible storytellers, Alex Woo and Stanley Moore the co-founders of Kuku Studios.

They are the creators of a new Netflix show, Go! Go! Cory Carson. It is production designed by Tonko House.

You can watch season 1 now on Netflix and on March 1st, the second season is coming out on Netflix! Please check it out!

For this special edition Tonkocast our Producers, Courtney Lockwood and Megan Bartel, interview the incredible Jinko Gotoh.

Jinko has worked as a Producer on films like Space Jam (1996), Finding Nemo (2003) and, most recently, The Lego Movie 2 (2019). She is also a consultant and Vice-president of Women in Animation (WIA). It was a great honor to speak with her and we are excited for you all to hear the conversation in this special edition Tonkocast #25.

Listen to this live podcast with Rosana Sullivan and Courtney Lockwood.

Rosie Sullivan who created Kitbull which has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is interviewed by Courtney. Catch this special treat of insight from powerful moms in the animation industry!

Our special guest for Tonkocast #26 is the one and only Mike Dutton!

With his experience as one of the first members on the Google Doodle Team (the folks responsible for the exciting illustrations that we see on Google’s main search page), and after years of working at YouTube as illustrator and art director for YouTube Kids, Mike joined the Tonko House family to art direct an upcoming project! We are so happy to have him onboard and excited to share his story.

Inktober is here! Jake Parker is our guest for our podcast! Jake is an independent author and illustrator who have done many things from animation visual development, from graphic novels to children's books to online teaching.

What Jake may be best known is that he's the creator of #Inkotober!

Be inspired with Jake's story!