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Sony Imageworks

Sony Pictures Imageworks
Subsidiary
Industry CGI visual effects
Motion pictures
Founded January 1, 1992
Headquarters Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Number of locations
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Culver City, California, United States
Products Visual effects
Owner Sony
Parent Sony Pictures Entertainment
Website imageworks.com

Sony Pictures Imageworks, Inc. (SPI) is a visual effects and character animation company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. SPI is a unit of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group.

The company has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Oscars for their work on Spider-Man 2 and the computer-animated short film The ChubbChubbs!, and received many other nominations for their work.

SPI has provided visual effects for many films, most recent include Oz the Great and Powerful, The Amazing Spider-Man and Men in Black 3. They also provided services for several of director Robert Zemeckis' films, including Contact, Cast Away, The Polar Express, Monster House and Beowulf.

Since foundation of its sister company Sony Pictures Animation in 2003, SPI has animated nearly all of SPA's films, including Open Season, Surf's Up, the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs films, The Smurfs films, Arthur Christmas, the Hotel Transylvania films, and Goosebumps, and has also helped animate other animated films like Rovio Animation's The Angry Birds Movie and Warner Animation Group's Storks.


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