Directed by Rhys Thomas, a group of eight to 13-year-olds are going to sing songs about their feelings and welcome celebrity guests to an outdoor set for comedy sketches aimed at all ages. Unlike his other stage-bound, glitzy specials, John Mulaney and The Sack Lunch Bunch (premiering on December 24) is done in the style of an old school children’s special. In other Netflix news, the streamer has also picked up a new comedy special from John Mulaney. Ghee Happy from Sanjay Patel is a new animated preschool show following five Hindu deities reimagined as kids together at a daycare. A part of the Tonko House Moom crew, including directors Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, will be at the 3/5 (March 5th) screening, so if you are there, you’ll be able to meet them.
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This is the second series Netflix recently picked up that dives into local mythologies. Japanese stop motion company dwarf studios and CG effects house Megalis VFX are already on board. Megan Bartel is the producer and Robert Kondo, Kane Lee and Zen Miyake, all from Tonko House, are the EPs. He left Pixar to co-found Tonko House with Robert Kondo in 2014. Originally from Japan, Tsutsumi’s credits include Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who!, Toy Story 3 and Monsters University. In a world filled with oddball gods and monsters from Japanese mythology, Onari, wants to follow in the footsteps of the heroes from the past (despite her lack of powers) and has to protect her village from the presence of mysterious “Oni” who threatens the gods.ĭaisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi is the creator and showrunner for the stop-motion and CG-animated show. Cinematography: Animation Producer: Tonko House, Marza Animation Planet. Undone, Amazon's surreal drama series from the minds of Raphael Bob-Waksberg (creator of BoJack Horseman) and Kate Purdy (a producer and writer of BoJack), has been renewed for a second season, the streaming service announced today.Netflix is working with Berkeley, California-based animation studio Tonko House ( The Dam Keeper, Moom) to develop a new hybrid kids series ONI. Moom (S) is a film directed by Daisuke Dice Tsutsumi, Robert Kondo with. Today Tonko House's latest creation, called Moom, is having its world premiere at Cinequest Film Festival.In 2014, after leaving the safety of the Pixar nest to start their own studio Tonko House. To learn more about the upcoming project, click here. “We are thrilled to be partnering with Dice and the rest of the Tonko team on this incredibly sweet story of self-discovery rooted in Japanese folklore," added Aram Yacoubian, Netflix's director of original animation. "We fell in love with Onari and the specific Japanese mythology built around her, and we’re confident that her very personal, relatable story of self-discovery will resonate with audiences around the world.”
“Having spent my entire career in the American animation industry, part of me always wondered if there would ever be a place in the stories I tell for the other half of my identity, as a Japanese native," Tsutsumi, who has worked for Blue Sky and Pixar in the past, said in a statement. "This Tonko House collaboration with Netflix is perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me to freely embrace my unique background to share with the rest of the world the wonderful stories I grew up with in Japan, particularly ones I believe are timely to the society we live in today." Does she have what it takes to protect her peaceful village from the encroaching presence of the mysterious 'Oni' who threaten the gods?" Netflix will be taking a deep dive into Japanese folklore with ONI, an original animated series from Tonko House, the animation studio behind The Dam Keeper, Moom, and Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems.Ĭreated and showrun by Dice Tsutsumi, the show - according to its official description - takes place "in a world filled with the oddball gods and monsters of Japanese mythology one of the creature's free-spirited daughters, Onari, is determined to follow in the footsteps of the mighty heroes of lore, but her unique powers are yet to be revealed.
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