Director

Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi

Directing

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Directed credits

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

1.5

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 1290451

IMDb ID: nm1156606

Known for: Directing

Born: November 6, 1974

Age: 51

Place of birth: Tōkyō, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2002 - 2024

Years active: 23

Average TMDB rating: 7.21

Wikidata: Q5209661

Also known as

堤大介 • Dice Tsutsumi

Frequent jobs

Director (4)Art Direction (2)Art Department Manager (1)Executive Producer (1)Matte Painter (1)Story (1)

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Biography

Daisuke "Dice" 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.