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===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
'''Sony Pictures Animation Inc.''' is an American animation studio | '''Sony Pictures Animation Inc.''' is an American animation studio owned by [[Sony|Sony Entertainment]]'s [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]] through their Motion Picture Group division and founded on May 9, 2002. The studio's films are distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Releasing under their [[Columbia Pictures]] label, while all direct-to-video releases are released by [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]]. | ||
In 2001, Sony Pictures considered selling off its visual effects facility [[Sony Pictures Imageworks]] but after failing to find a suitable buyer, having been impressed with the CGI sequences of ''Stuart Little 2'' and seeing the box office successes of [[DreamWorks Animation]]'s ''Shrek'' and [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]]/[[Pixar Animation Studios|Pixar]]'s ''Monsters, Inc.'', SPI was reconfigured to become an animation studio. In 2002, Sony Pictures Animation was established to develop characters, stories and movies with SPI taking over the digital production while maintaining its visual effects production. | |||
The studio is responsible for the ''Open Season'', ''Surf's Up'', ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'', ''Smurfs'', ''Hotel Transylvania'', ''Goosebumps'', ''Angry Birds'', ''Peter Rabbit'' and ''Spider-Verse'' franchises, and the movies ''Arthur Christmas'', ''The Pirates! Band of Misfits'', ''The Emoji Movie'', ''The Star'', ''The Mitchells vs. the Machines'', ''Wish Dragon'', and ''Vivo''. The studio's first film was ''Open Season'', released in 2006. | |||
===1st Logo (September 29, 2006-December 2, 2011)=== | ===1st Logo (September 29, 2006-December 2, 2011)=== | ||