Sony Pictures Imageworks
Logo used since 2006 | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | CGI visual effects Motion pictures |
| Founded | May 26, 1992 |
| Headquarters | 399 West Georgia Street, 4th Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1Z1, Canada 1001 Boulevard Robert-Bourassa, 21st Floor, Montreal, Quebec H3B 0A7, Canada |
| Additional offices | 10202 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California, United States |
Number of locations | 2 |
Key people | Michelle Grady (president) |
| Products | |
Number of employees | 1,300 (2024) |
| Parent | Sony Pictures Entertainment (1992–1997) Sony Pictures Digital (1997–2015) Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group (2015–present) |
| Website | imageworks.com |
Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. (simply known as Imageworks) is a visual effects and computer animation studio headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and Montreal, Quebec, with an additional office on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California. 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 Best Visual Effects Oscar for their work on Spider-Man 2, as well as the Oscars for Best Animated Film for Into the Spider-Verse and 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, 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), Over the Moon for Netflix and Pearl Studio, and The Sea Beast for Netflix Animation.