Marza Animation Planet

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Marza Animation Planet

Logo of CGI animation studio Marza Animation Planet
Industry	CGI animation for film, CGI animation for television, CGI animation for video games
Founded	2003 (under Sega Sammy VE Animation Studios/Visual Entertainment R&D Dept. title) 2009 (formed as Sega Sammy Visual Entertainment)[1] 2010 (officially as Marza Animation Planet)
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Creative Management Team: Daniel P. Ferreira Koichi Fukazawa Takeshi Ito Koji Takeyama Hisao Oguchi Yoshinori Ishii
Revenue	N/A
Parent	Sega Sammy Holdings
Website	Marza Animation Planet Homepage & Website

Marza Animation Planet Inc. (マーザ・アニメーションプラネット株式会社, Māza Animēshonpuranetto Kabushiki Kaisha^?) is a Japanese based CGI animation studio dedicated to making feature, full length films. Their extensive resume also include CGI Add-in's for television series and video games. Its head office is on the 18th floor of the NYK Tennoz Building (天王洲郵船ビル, Tennōzu Yūsen Biru^?) in Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa, Tokyo.^[2][3]

Production

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Short stories

• Sonic: Night of the Werehog^[4] (2008)
  (CGI Animation Production)

Television series / Commerical work

• Hatsune Miku - Toyota Corolla 11' Promotion Commercials ^[5]

Feature films

• Space Pirate Captain Harlock^[6] (2013)
  (CGI Animation Production)
  (Co-Produced with Toei Animation)

• Winning Entries from the 1st Annual Marza Story Circus Competition)^{[note 1]} (No Release Date Given)
  (CGI Animation Production)

• Winning Entries from the 2nd Annual Marza Story Circus Competition^{[note 2]} (No Release Date Given)
  (CGI Animation Production)

Video games

• Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA 2nd (2010)
  (Opening CGI Movie, Graphic Design)

• Sonic Free Riders (2010)
  (Opening CGI Movie, CGI Animated Storyboard Inserts, Graphic Design)

• Sonic Colors (2010)
  (Opening CGI Movie, CGI Cutscene Inserts, Ending CGI Movie, Graphic Design)
  (Co-Animated & Co-Produced with Animaroid, Inc)

• Virtua Tennis 4 (2011)
  (Graphic Design, Additional CGI Material)

• Sonic Generations (2011)
  (Opening CGI Movie, CGI Cutscene Inserts, Ending CGI Movie, Graphic Design)

Miscellaneous games (under Sega Sammy VE / Visual Entertainment R&D Department)

• Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
  (Opening CGI Movie)

• Spikeout: Battle Street
  (Opening CGI Movie)

• Sonic the Hedgehog
  (Opening CGI Movie, CGI Cutscene Inserts, Ending CGI Movie)
  (Co-Animated & Produced with Blur Studio and GEMBA)

• Nights: Journey of Dreams
  (Opening CGI Movie, CGI Cutscene Inserts, Ending CGI Movie)
  (Co-Animated & Co-Produced with GONZO, Digital Frontier and GEMBA)

• Phantasy Star Universe
  (Opening CGI Movie)
  (Co-Produced with Anima)

• Sonic Riders
  (Opening CGI Movie, CGI Cutscene Inserts, Ending CGI Movie)

• Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
  (Opening CGI Movie, CGI Cutscene Inserts, Ending CGI Movie)
  (Co-Animated & Co-Produced with Anima, GONZO and Neuron Age)

• Virtua Fighter 5
  (Opening CGI Movie, CGI Cutscene Inserts, Graphic Design)

• Sonic Unleashed
  (Opening CGI Movie, CGI Cutscene Inserts, Graphic Design)

• Resonance of Fate
  (Opening CGI Movie, CGI Cutscene Inserts, Ending CGI Movie)

• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
  (Opening CGI Movie)

• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
  (Opening CGI Movie)

• Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
  (Opening CGI Movie)

Notes & announcements

1. ^ In Fall 2010, Marza & 100 Meter Films announced that they had received 394 eligible submissions from 25 countries, and from that chose 20 winning stories. In Spring 2011, Marza announced that they chose 10 final submissions from the 20 chosen in the second round. The Winners of the contest were announced previously and info on 3 to 5 of the winning entries are currently being processed.
2. ^ The Winning Entries from the final round will be announced sometime in late 2011.

References

1. ^ Sega Sammy Launches CG Animation Studio in Japan (Updated) - Anime News Network
2. ^ "Company Profile." Marza. Retrieved on October 17, 2011. "NYK Tennoz Bldg., 18F, 2-2-20, Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 140-0002 JAPAN"
3. ^ "会社概要." Marza Animation Planet. Retrieved on October 17, 2011. "所在地 〒140-0002　東京都品川区東品川2-2-20　天王洲郵船ビル18階"
4. ^ Sonic: Night of the Werehog
5. ^ http://www.toyota.com/corollamiku/?refcd=GO000000515583730s_hatsune_miku&tsacr=GO11708182651
6. ^ Captain Harlock's New CG Pilot Images, Staff Revealed - Anime News Network

External links

	Tokyo portal
	Animation portal
	Companies portal

• Marza Animation Planet Homepage & Website
• Marza Animation Planet Homepage & Website (Japanese)
• Marza Animation Planet's Linkedin Page
• Sega VE Animation Studio at the Internet Movie Database