Sony Pictures Imageworks, Inc. (SPI) is a Canadian visual effects and computer-animation studio based in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional office in Culver City, California. 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 Suicide Squad, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Kingsman: The Golden Circle. 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 2002, 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, the Hotel Transylvania films and The Emoji Movie, and has also helped animate other animated films such as Aardman Animation's Arthur Christmas, co-produced by SPA, Rovio Animation's The Angry Birds Movie and Warner Animation Group's Storks.