What is the title of this 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios that Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi were involved with when they opened the project "The Dam Keeper?"
The Dam Keeper The Dam Keeper is a 2014 American animated short film directed by former Pixar art directors Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi. It tells the story of Pig, an introverted youth who lives in a windmill and keeps a dark fog from engulfing his town. Although socially rejected by his peers, he is befriended by the artistic Fox. Kondo and Tsutsumi began developing the film while working on "Monsters University" and produced it through a Pixar co-op program. This is Tsutsumi's second short film, after 2011's "Sketchtravel", and Kondo's first directorial effort. Producers Megan Bartel and Duncan Ramsay were also employees at Pixar. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film.
Barry Kooser Barry R. Kooser is an American artist, painter, and documentary filmmaker who worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios between 1992 and 2003 as a background artist on films such as "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "Mulan", "Lilo & Stitch", and as background supervisor on "Brother Bear". After leaving Disney, he worked independently as a painter exhibiting and selling fine art in galleries around the US. While teaching animation and story-boarding at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, he met Worker Studio founder Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot, and became a partner at the Colorado animation studio. Barry has since left Worker Studio. He is the Founder, Executive Producer and Director at Many Hoops Productions.