Digital Frontier

{{Short description|Japanese animation studio}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Digital Frontier Inc.

| native_name = 株式会社デジタル・フロンティア

| romanized_name = Kabushiki-gaisha Dejitaru Furontia

| former_name =

| logo = Digital Frontier Logo.png

| logo_size = 200px

| type = Kabushiki gaisha

| foundation = {{start date and age|1993}}

| key_people = Hidenori Ueki CEO

| num_employees = 265

| parent = Fields Corporation

| subsid = GEMBA (2006–2024)
Digital Frontier (Taiwan) Inc.

| location = Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

| homepage = https://www.dfx.co.jp

}}

{{nihongo|Digital Frontier Inc.|株式会社デジタル・フロンティア|Kabushiki gaisha Dejitaru Furontia|lead=yes}}, also known as {{nihongo|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.{{Citation |date=February 2006|title=次世代映像制作を担う:モーションキャプチャスタジオ開設 |journal=Cgworld |volume=90 |page=25 }}

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).{{cite web|title=デジタル最前線：大ヒット話題作「デスノート」の制作|url=http://www.cgarts.or.jp/frontline/vol19/index.html|publisher=CG-ARTS協会|access-date=12 September 2011|archive-date=30 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130054144/http://www.cgarts.or.jp/frontline/vol19/index.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=デジタル・フロンティア×クレッセント|url=http://www.videojournal.co.jp/ja/node/38|publisher=Video Journal|access-date=26 September 2011|archive-date=5 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405065321/http://www.videojournal.co.jp/ja/node/38|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|title=デジタル・フロンティア譲渡価額は6億5000万円に|url=http://www.animeanime.biz/all/2010041502-2/|publisher=株式会社アニメアニメジャパン|access-date=12 September 2011|archive-date=13 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013225006/http://www.animeanime.biz/all/2010041502-2/|url-status=dead}} The company has subsidiaries in Malaysia, Taiwan, and Japan.{{Cite web |url=http://china-screen-news.com/2011/10/japanese-digital-frontier-opens-new-subsidiary-in-taiwan/ |title=China Screen News |access-date=2013-05-29 |archive-date=2015-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415225009/http://china-screen-news.com/2011/10/japanese-digital-frontier-opens-new-subsidiary-in-taiwan/ |url-status=live }}

The company created reveal trailers for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.{{Cite web|url = https://nintendosoup.com/sakurai-on-the-process-of-producing-super-smash-bros-character-reveal-trailers/|title = Sakurai on the Process of Producing Super Smash Bros Character Reveal Trailers|date = 10 July 2019|access-date = 16 July 2019|archive-date = 16 July 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190716230341/https://nintendosoup.com/sakurai-on-the-process-of-producing-super-smash-bros-character-reveal-trailers/|url-status = live}}