Tonko House — Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo’s studio that produced the Oscar-nominated animated short “The Dam Keeper” — is working with Hulu Japan to produce a series of shorts tentatively titled “Dam Keeper no Nakama-tachi” (The Dam Keeper’s Friends).
They debuted the original 18-minute “The Dam Keeper” film the same year, and have been working on a feature film version of the story since founding Tonko House.
Oh previously supervised animation for the original short film, and left Pixar to join Tonko House in September.
The new series of shorts will follow Pig and Fox, the same characters from “The Dam Keeper.”