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'''Sony Pictures Animation''' is an American animation studio owned by [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]] through their Motion Picture Group division and founded on May 9, 2002. Most of the studio's films are distributed worldwide by [[Sony Pictures Releasing]] under their [[Columbia Pictures]] label (with the exception of ''Fixed'', which will be co-distributed by [[Warner Bros. Pictures]] through [[New Line Cinema]]), 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 well known for the ''Open Season'', ''Surf's Up'', ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'', ''The Smurfs'', ''Hotel Transylvania'', ''Goosebumps'', and ''Spider-Verse'' franchises, and the films ''Arthur Christmas'', ''The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!'' (released overseas as ''The Pirates! Band of Misfits''), ''The Emoji Movie'', ''The Star'', ''Peter Rabbit'', ''The Angry Birds Movie 2'', ''The Mitchells vs. the Machines'', ''Wish Dragon'', and ''Vivo''. The company didn't use a logo until 2006, when their first film ''Open Season'' was released.