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.