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Daisuke Tsutsumi

Personal Info:

KNOWN FOR

Directing

GENDER

male

BIRTHDAY

1974-11-06(49 years old)

PLACE OF BIRTH

Tōkyō, Japan

ALSO KNOWN AS

Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi堤大介

BIOGRAPHY

Daisuke Tsutsumi (堤 大介; born November 6, 1974) is a Japanese animator and illustrator living in San Francisco, California. He is a former color key artist at Blue Sky Studios and art director at Pixar. Together with Robert Kondo, he founded the indie animation studio Tonko House in 2014.

Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, he is married to Mei Okuyama (奥山 芽以), a jewelry artist and the niece of acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, he left Pixar to focus on independent animation. In 2014, he co-directed The Dam Keeper which was nominated for an Oscar for short animated film. He most recently directed the short film Bottle George, based on the original story by Akihiro Nishino, which premiered at the 2024 San Francisco International Film Festival.

POPULAR MOVIES

acting

  • 2011

    Cars 2

    as
    Additional Voices (voice)

production

directing

art

visual effects