Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, an operating unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment, consists of Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Online Entertainment, and SonyPictures.com. The division produces stories, characters, images and experiences conceived, created, rendered and delivered digitally. With imagination and technological innovation, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment continues to create and expand the entertainment landscape.

The Imageworks Professional Academic Excellence program (IPAX), designed by Imageworks, is intended to build stronger relationships with established academic programs and to nurture and grow future generations of digital talent. IPAX is the first program of its kind, focusing on IPAX member faculty development and exposure to real-time production issues and development of standards for training future digital artists.

Imageworks senior executives and staff provide the faculty of IPAX member schools with the opportunity to attend in-house training programs and experience a real world production environment, so they may return with valuable production knowledge and skills to the classroom. The program is designed to offer a yearly review of curriculums to ensure the incorporation of the latest developments in technology and techniques used not only at Imageworks but throughout the visual effects and digital animation industry.