| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | IP development co-production brand development and support |
| Genre | Live action and animation |
| Founded | 1974[1] |
| Founder | Ken Morrison Dave Thomas |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Key people | Ken Morrison[1] Diana Gage Troy A. Taillon Keith A. Goddard Karl Willems |
Ocean Productions, Inc., is a Canadian media production and voice acting company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that is part of the Ocean Group of businesses. Ocean Group is involved in intellectual property acquisition and development, co-production and the creation of English versions of animation for worldwide distribution.
The Group also works with global toy companies and producers to create and distribute animation properties in conjunction with game development as well as licensing and merchandising programs.
Ocean Media Inc. creates world master versions of programming to promote intellectual properties on a global basis. The company's productions are recorded at Ocean Studios (originally known as Ocean Sound) in Vancouver and Blue Water Studios in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.
Founded by Ken Morrison and Dave Thomas in the early 1970s, the company, then known as Ocean Sound, originally started as a North Vancouver-based music recording studio. Musicians such as Art Bergmann, Chilliwack, D.O.A and k.d. lang recorded albums and songs there.[2]
In 1979, Ocean moved to its current location in the Kitsilano community. Sometime after, the company began producing voice over work for animation. By the late 1990s, Ocean claimed to control about 85% of the market for animation voice-over in Vancouver.[3] During this time, Ocean was one of the largest production houses working on English-language versions of Japanese anime series.[4] Among others, the company's clients included Bandai Entertainment, Central Park Media, Geneon Entertainment and Viz Media.
Ocean now works on animation and live action media from around the world.
These series were produced at Ocean Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia.
These series were recorded at Blue Water Studios in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.