Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment: Difference between revisions

'''Visuals:''' On a {{color|blue}} background, a large white tube sits flat, resembling a TV screen. A {{color|blue}} rectangle then appears like a door shutting and 2 circles appear separately on top of each other, one {{color|blue}} and the other {{color|lightblue|light blue}}. The text "{{color|lightblue|A}} {{color|blue|ran{{small|K}}in bass}} {{color|lightblue|PRODUCTION}}", each word stacked, appears next to the shapes. The logo itself is supposed to represent an abstract "'''RB'''", with the "'''R'''" formed up with the darker colored parts and the "'''B'''" made up of all the shapes.

*When it first debuted in <u>1968</u>, the logo was slightly different. The most notable difference is that the TV monitor isn't present, but there are also a number of smaller differences. The rectangle's animation is slightly different, the circles appear slower and with part of "{{color|blue|ranKin bass}}" as well alongside them, and the text appears to be a bit cleaner. The copyright date also uses Arabic numerals rather than Roman numerals. This has first appeared on the rare 1968 special ''The Mouse on the Mayflower'', but can usually be seen on ''The Little Drummer Boy'' and ''Frosty the Snowman''.

'''Visuals:''' The screen flashes three different shades of {{color|blue}}, with the effect that they're getting sucked inwards, into a rectangle at the left edge of the screen. Every time they go through a shade, that's what the color of the rectangle is, until all three have been done and the screen is white. Then the circles appear to complete the stylized "RB", except instead of just appearing, layers of the circles zoom in until they fill the outline - they sort of "grow" in their places. To the right of the logo appear the words "{{color|lightblue|A}} {{color|blue|ran{{small|K}}in bass}} {{color|lightblue|PRODUCTION}}" as usual, with "{{color|blue|ran{{small|K}}in bass}}" wiping in with the circles before the rest appear. It looks a bit like the first logo without the TV monitor.

'''Audio:''' A jazzy drum break is heard, followed by an abridged version of Cheetara's theme (a triumphant horn fanfare, with a funk flair to it). When the 1983 variant of the 1980 Telepictures "Linecoaster" logo appears, an abridged version of the drum roll and a ding from the said logo is heard.

'''Visuals:''' The classic Rankin/Bass logo, except made completely three-dimensional, with the text in {{color|royalblue|royal blue}} and in the corporate font of then-current parent company Telepictures, appears on a black background. A white line forms under the logo, and that line "springs" into a cursive "Animated Entertainment". Then, the "RB" zooms up, and the shapes slide apart as they come closer to the screen, revealing a white "from". As the "O" overtakes the screen, the animation of either [[Telepictures Corporation|Telepictures]] (1985-86) or [[Lorimar-Telepictures]] (1986-89) plays and eventually fills the entire screen.

* Another shortened version also exists, in which the logo fades out just as the "RB" begins to zoom up. This was due to the 2003 WBTVD logo plastering the Telepictures logo. This was spotted on <u>AMC's prints of the special ''The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus''</u>.

'''Audio:''' A bouncy, synthesized oboe theme (composed by Bernard Hoffer), with a "spring" sound effect when the line morphs into the "Animated Entertainment" text. On the first season of ''ThunderCats'', the music segues into a custom fanfare for the 1980 Telepictures logo (also by Hoffer) and from season 2 onward, it segues into the end of the 1986 Lorimar-Telepictures "Crashing Comets" theme when the logo appears.