Born and raised in Tokyo, Dice moved to New York in 1993. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 1998, he started his career as a staff illustrator for Lucas Learning Ltd. in San Francisco. Two years later, Dice moved back to New York to work for Blue Sky Studios as a visual development/color key artist on film projects such as Ice Age, Robots and Horton Hears A Who. After his long, adventurous seven-year run at Blue Sky Studios, Dice has recently accepted the new challenge to join Pixar Animation Studios as an art director.

Dice has actively been pursuing his illustration career outside of animation as well. His graphic novel “Noche y Dia” is a part of the critically acclaimed anthology Out of Picture, and his next short graphic novel, “Dream of Kyosuke,” is in Out of Picture 2.

Meanwhile, Dice continues to create his en plein air oil paintings, which have been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions.