Sony Pictures Animation: Difference between revisions

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.

===1st Logo (September 29, 2006-December 2, 2011)===

'''Variants:'''

* On short films, it is already formed; however, the camera zooms in slowly, and the word "{{color|blue|'''animation'''}}" is missing the "{{color|blue|'''o'''}}". Said letter then drops down and squeezes between "{{color|blue|'''i'''}}" and "{{color|blue|'''n'''}}" as it knocks both out, sending the dot on the "{{color|blue|'''i'''}}" throwing itself to the left. The "{{color|blue|'''m'''}}" crawls slightly left as the "{{color|blue|'''n'''}}" rapidly changes into the ping-pong racket sending the "{{color|blue|'''i'''}}"'s dot back to it belongs before changing back into "{{color|blue|'''n'''}}". The rest of the logo plays normally after that.

* On the DTV film ''Open Season 3'' and the special ''The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol'', the logo is in warp-speed and it freezes instead of falling down at the end. On the latter, the animation plays in normal speed.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A fast-paced jazzy fanfare composed by James Newton Howard. When the letters crash, a crowd is heard groaning.  

'''Availability:''' Common.

* Also seen on the first two ''Open Season'' DTV sequels, as well as the short films ''The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol'', ''Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run'', and ''The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas''.

* This was also seen on the games of the named titles.

'''Variants:'''

* On ''The Star'' and ''Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation'', the [[Sony Entertainment|Sony]] logo transitions to this logo.

===3rd Logo (June 24, 2015-October 12, 2018)===

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'''Logo:''' On a black background, a backlight illuminates some letters. A {{color|blue}}-tinted spotlight then flies over and reveals the text from before with its shadows bending in response to the light as it dims. It then fades into full color and the spotlight disappears while it slowly animates.

'''FX/SFX:''' 2D light animation.

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'''Variants:'''

* A prototype version appeared on ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' where the text is more {{color|blue}} (similar to the previous two logos) and the background is black.  

* An alternate version appeared on the first trailer for ''The Mitchells vs. the Machines'' (then called ''Connected'') in which the already-formed logo slowly zooms in and a white glow appears from the left of "ANIMATION".

'''Music/Sounds:''' The opening theme of the movie.

'''Availability:''' Current.  

* It was first seen on ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' as a prototype variant and has appeared on all their current productions since.  

* The standard version has so far appeared on ''Wish Dragon'', ''Hair Love'' (which is the standard variant's theatrical debut) and ''Monster Pets'', while the television variant has so far appeared on the final season of ''Hotel Transylvania: The Series''.