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Native name | 株式会社デジタル・フロンティア |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki-gaisha Dejitaru Furontia |
| Company type | Kabushiki gaisha |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Hidenori Ueki CEO |
Number of employees | 265 |
| Parent | Fields Corporation |
| Subsidiaries | GEMBA Digital Frontier (Taiwan) Inc. |
| Website | https://www.dfx.co.jp |
Digital Frontier Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社デジタル・フロンティア, Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Dejitaru Furontia), also known as Frontier Pictures, Inc. (株式会社フロンティア・ピクチャーズ, Kabushiki gaisha Furontia Pikuchazu), is a motion picture production company in Japan with a distinguished large scale CG production department. The company is equipped with motion capture studio called "OPAKIS" in Odaiba, Tokyo.[1]
The company started producing CG works in 1994 as a new section of TYO Image Enterprise. In 1997 Digital Frontier moved to Daikanyama and became a subsidiary of TYO Corporation then three years later it became corporate company Digital Frontier Inc. as it is known today. Its earlier works are Death Note (live action film) and Appleseed (CG film).[2][3] In 2010, Digital Frontier’s parent company changed from TYO Inc. to Fields Corporation, which is specialized in planning and development, and sales of pachinko machines.[4] The company has subsidiaries in Malaysia, Taiwan, and Japan.[5]
The company created reveal trailers for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.[6]
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