Sony Pictures Imageworks [SEP] inception
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 the Warner Animation Group, and "The Angry Birds Movie" and its sequel for Rovio Animation.
History.
Sony Pictures Imageworks was formed in 1992 with five employees to use computers to help plan complicated scenes for live-action films.
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. is a Canadian visual effects and computer animation company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with an additional office 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 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.
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