History
Sony Pictures Imageworks was founded in 1992 as a VFX company.
Its first independent animated effort was the 5-minute short The ChubbChubbs! directed by Eric Armstrong. In 2002, it won the Oscar for Best Animated Short. Early Bloomer, released in 2003, was the division's second short film and originally made as a storyboarding exercise.
SPI completed its first feature animation project in 2006 with the release of Open Season.
In 2007, SPI acquired the majority of the shares of FrameFlow, an Indian visual effects studio based in Atlanta with most of its work being done at its Chennai (Madras) centre. The company has been renamed to Imageworks India, and opened next year a state-of-the-art facility in Chennai. The same year SPI established new satellite production facilities in Novato, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico. In February 2012, it was reported that with July 2012 the Albuquerque studio will close due to the economic crisis and lack of alternative companies where employees would go in time of production gaps.
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