TONKOCAST

Our guests for Tonkocast #22 are our 2018 fall semester interns Rebecca Chan and Laura Swalley!

Today's Tonkocast guest is film Director and Animator, Siqi Song.

Siqi's film, "Sister" an Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film is a stop-motion piece which tells the story of a man who remembers his childhood growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China.

Tonko House leaders Robert Kondo, Dice Tsutsumi, and Zen Miyake take an open and sincere walk through the studio's journey in 2018 and share their hopes for the future!

Our Tonkocast #8 guests are Bobby Beck and Carlos Baena from Animation Mentor and Artella. Bobby and Carlos share their stories behind their incredible journey.

Artella Website: https://www.artella.com/home

Animation Mentor: https://www.animationmentor.com/

Bobby Beck

Circus Jam (2016)

https://www.iamag.co/circus-jam/

Carlos Baena

La Noria (2019)

https://www.lanoriafilm.com/

Our guests for #18 are an amazing filmmaking duo Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata a.k.a. Tiny Inventions!

The stars of Tonkocast #21 are the filmmakers of the Academy Award nominated short, "Dear Basketball," Glen Keane and Max Keane from Glen Keane Studios.

Glen Keane is a legendary animation artist. His work in films like Tarzan, The Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, amongst many other Disney films, has inspired and influenced artists for generations. Even with his historical achievement, he still left his big studio career to start his own studio, Glen Keane Studios.

We are honored to have the pleasure of connecting with Glen Keane Studios and cannot wait to see the amazing projects that they have in the horizon!

Our guests for Tonkocast #17 are Erick Oh and Courtney Lockwood, two leaders of our latest project Pig - The Dam Keeper Poems. They will talk specifically about the state of the most anticipated Tonko House project and how different it was compared to what they experienced at big studios such as Pixar and Google.

Our guest for Tonkocast #12 is our friend, Pixar feature director Peter Sohn! We have been lucky enough to get to know him at Pixar and work with him through his rise in career starting in animation, art, story and eventually directing. He has directed the short "Partly Cloudy" and most recently feature film "The Good Dinosaur."

https://www.pixar.com/feature-films-launch

For our first post of 2018 our at the time Production Manager, Courtney Lockwood interviewed our leaders Zen Miyake, Dice Tsutsumi, and Robert Kondo. They took us through their experience of growing a studio and shared their hopes for the upcoming year.

Today's Tonkocast guest is the brilliant Illustrator and Designer Oren Haskins.

Oren works in Immersive Arts at Google Daydream - a design team for VR and AR projects across Google.