Sony Pictures Imageworks

Background
Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. is a Canadian visual effects and computer animation studio headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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 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 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 the Warner Animation Group, The Angry Birds Movie and its sequel for Rovio Animation, Over the Moon for Netflix Animation, Netflix and Pearl Studio, and The Sea Beast for Netflix Animation.

1st Logo (July 3, 2002-May 9, 2003)
Logo: On a black background, we see the words "sony pictures imaGeworKs" in red, surrounded by a wide blue/purple halo and with "sony pictures" atop "maGe". "PRESENTS", also in red, can be seen below.

Variants: The logo would also be showed without "presents" and the blue halo.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: The opening theme.

Availability: Used on early Sony Imageworks shorts.

2nd Logo (July 21, 2006- )
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Logo: On a black background, TBA.

Variants:


 * A In-credit variant exists.

Technique: CGI animation by Prologue.

Music/Sounds: A piano and voilin fanfare first, wich becomes more beautyfull, loud krople drop, realy loud wooshes and magical sparkles.

Music/Sounds variantsː


 * For in-credit variant, The closing theme of the movie.
 * Protopype logo features an human singing a solute and a woshes.

Availability: TBA.


 * The in-credit variant appears at the end of some Sony Pictures Animation films witch areː Open Season, Surf's up, Open Season 2, Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, Open Season 3, Hotel transylvania 3ː Summer vacation, The Mitchells vs the Machines and Vivo. This is also seen at the end of Monster House, The ChubbChubbs saves Xmas and Beowulf.