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/

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...

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 Tonkocast #7 guest is the one and only Mark Osborne! His latest film, The Little Prince just came out August 5th 2016 on Netflix to the US, UK and Australia!

Our Tonkocast #10 guests are Dennis Hwang and Masa Kawashima of Niantic, Inc. the company behind the worldwide phenomenon, Pokémon-Go. Find more about how they started their company and came up with the game that has an interesting and thoughtful philosophy behind it. https://nianticlabs.com/

Our special guests for Tonkocast #32 are Director Trevor Jimenez and Production Designer Chris Sasaki, creators of the Academy Award shortlisted film "Weekends." Inspired by his own experiences, Trevor's film takes a look at divorce through the eyes of a young boy.

Our guest for Tonkocast #13 is Robert Valley, legendary independent animation filmmaker. His latest film Pear Cider and Cigarettes is nominated for 2017 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Our guests for Tonkocast #14 are our very own Sam Marin and Courtney Lockwood. Although not at Tonko House they are professional voice actors. Here what it's like to be behind the mic!

Our guest for Tonkocast #15 is Shuzo Shiota, CEO of Japan's leading CG animation studio Polygon Pictures Inc. He worked on Transformers Prime (2010), Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2014) and Lost in Oz (2015).

Our guests for Tonkocast #16 are our 2017 semester interns! Nicolle Castro, Tamara Chang, Ray Landa, and Ruby Wang. ***Unfortunately our other intern Asami Kanzaki wasn't able to make it to the studio on the day of recording!

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.

For this special edition Tonkocast, our Directors, Robert Kondo and Chris Sasaki, interview the incredible Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo. Jean-charles has directed films like Make It Soul (2018), The Sense of Touch (2014), and Le coeur est un metronome (2007). His highly influential work has traveled all over the world, but don't let us tell you, hear it from the man himself on Tonkocast #27.

Our guests are Director Carlos Baena and Production Designer Eve Skylar from the incredible horror short film La Noria. La Noria tells the story of a boy who, after a devastating loss, encounters some creatures who turn his life upside down. The film was created via online collaboration with artists from around the world.

Our Tonkocast guests today are the creators of the heart-meltingly-sweet stop-motion short film Lost&Found (2018), Directors Bradley Slabe and Andrew Goldsmith. Lost&Found tells the story of a toy dinosaur who must make a difficult decision to save the love of its life. The film just wrapped a festival tour in the U.S. and we are thrilled to share their process and creative journey with you all on this Tonkocast#30!

Our Tonkocast #5 guests are Brandon Oldenburg, who is a founder of the Oscar winning animation house, Moonbot Studios. Brandon and William Joyce won the Academy Award with their directorial debut short, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.Morris Lessmore in 2012. Moonbot Studios is an indy animation studio that sets the bar high with their quality work and a source of inspiration for Tonko House. One of the first things Dice and Robert did after they left Pixar was to go visit the studio...

Our guests for Tonkocast #23 are Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas. Both ex-Disney artists, Andrew and Bobby have branched out to begin their own journey at TAIKO Studios. We are thrilled to connect with them to share their experiences and talk about their newest project, "One Small Step."

Our Tonkocast #4 guests are the filmmakers behind the award winning and Oscar nominated animated short, Borrowed Time. Amanda Jones, Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coats were our colleagues at Pixar and Blue Sky. They took a similar path in creating an independent animated short film while working at Pixar as we did with The Dam Keeper. Sharing the experience of how hard it is to actually "FINISH" an independent project while working full time we discussed in depth how the Borrowed Time...

Our Tonkocast #9 guests are Eric Darnell and Maureen Fan from Baobab Studios, one of the leading content creation studios in the world of VR! CEO Maureen Fan worked with us during her internship at Pixar and on independent projects such as Totoro Forest Projects, Sketchtravel and The Dam Keeper. Creative Director Eric Darnell is the world famous animation film director of the Madascar movies. https://www.baobabstudios.com/

Today's Tonkocast guest is Steve Yang, the founder and CEO of ZamyGo. Robert and Steve will talk about how the first Tonko House Korea Exhibition came to be; and how their two completely different career paths lead to one of our most exciting exhibitions to date.

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

Our guest #2 is score composers Zach Johnston and Matteo Roberts. They collaborated with Tonko House with their memorable film scores for The Dam Keeper and Tonko House's new film Moom. The original theme song of Tonkocast is also created by Zach and Matteo.

Our first guest is an Oscar nominated Ronnie del Carmen, co-director of Inside Out.