Sony Pictures Imageworks

Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. (also known as Imageworks) is a Canadian visual effects and computer animation studio headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with additional offices in Los Angeles, California and Montreal, Quebec. SPI is a unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group.

The company has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for their work on Spider-Man 2, as well as the Academy Award for Best Animated Film for Into the Spider-Verse and Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for The ChubbChubbs!, having also received many other nominations for their work.

SPI has provided visual effects for many films; most recent include The Meg, Men in Black: International, and Spider-Man: Far From Home. They also provided services for several of director Robert Zemeckis' films, including Contact, Cast Away, The Polar Express, and Beowulf.

Since the foundation of its sister company Sony Pictures Animation in 2002, SPI would go on to animate nearly all of SPA's films, including Open Season, Surf's Up, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, KPop Demon Hunters, Goat, and films in the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Smurfs and Hotel Transylvania franchises, in addition to animating films for other studios such as Arthur Christmas for Aardman Animations (co-produced by SPA), Storks and Smallfoot for Warner Animation Group (now known as Warner Bros. Pictures Animation), The Angry Birds Movie for Rovio Animation and its sequel (co-produced by SPA), and Over the Moon for Netflix and Pearl Studio, The Sea Beast and In Your Dreams for Netflix Animation Studios, and The Bad Guys 2 for DreamWorks Animation.