Digital Frontier

Digital Frontier (株式会社デジタル・フロンティア) is a motion picture production company in Japan with a distinguished large scale CG production department, and a motion capture studio called "OPAKIS" in Odaiba, Tokyo. The motion capture for Metroid: Other M was recorded by Digital Frontier. Motion capture has been recorded for many other video games as well, such as the 2002 remake of Resident Evil, Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, Lost Odyssey, Yakuza 4, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. For Super Smash Bros., Digital Frontier animated the CG portion of Bowser Jr.'s trailer, "The Future of Evil", which features Samus Aran.

Kaori Onodera and Taiki Ebisawa, an animator and modeler (respectively) at Polygon Pictures for Other M, worked at Digital Frontier before the game's development. Hiroaki Sato, a technical assistant and motion capture actor at Digital Frontier, portrayed an unspecified character(s) in Other M.

In addition to Japan, Digital Frontier has subsidiaries in Malaysia and Taiwan.