Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi, originally from Japan, is a filmmaker, painter and philanthropist. A graduate from The School of Visual Arts in New York, Dice has worked as a visual development/color key artist at Blue Sky Studios on Ice Age, Robots and Horton Hears a Who! He is best known for his color and lighting art direction of Pixar's Toy Story 3 and Monsters University. Dice is passionate about charity work and spearheaded both The Totoro Forest Project and Sketchtravel. Dice along with his directing partner Robert Kondo wrote and directed an animated short film The Dam Keeper which earned them their first Oscar nomination. In 2014, Dice and Robert Kondo left Pixar to start a new animation studio Tonko House.