Locksmith Animation

Credits

Descriptions by
AnimationLogoMan and SuperMax124

Captures by
TagTheRhino 880

Editions by
Bobbyjennings, Tobias Benson01, Henrynguye5 and Anticritic12

Video captures courtesy of
Broken Saw

Background

Locksmith Animation is a British animation studio founded by Julie Lockhart and Sarah Smith in 2014. Based in London, England, it bills itself as "the only high-end computer-animation studio in the UK making computer-animated family films". In April of that same year, visual effects/animation studio Double Negative formed a deal with the company where it will provide the computer animation for its films.

In May 2016, the company formed a production deal with Paramount Pictures to distribute their films to be produced under the Paramount Animation label; but this was abandoned the following year when Paramount's late chairman and CEO Brad Grey was replaced by Jim Gianopulos.

Shortly after Paramount's abandon, they formed a multi-year production deal with 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios) in September of that year as DreamWorks Animation's replacement, which would distribute their films under the 20th Century Fox Animation label, with the studio aiming to release a film every 12–18 months. In October 2019, a few months after Disney took over 20th's assets, the company formed a new multi-year production deal with Warner Bros. Pictures, which will distribute future films under their Warner Animation Group label after the release of Ron's Gone Wrong, which was now their only film to be distributed by 20th Century Studios. Although Locksmith debuted a logo in the same year they launched, it did not debut on-screen until 2021 with Ron's Gone Wrong.

(October 22, 2021-)

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Logo: We fade into a white screen, which then reveals itself to be a keyhole as it rotates and zooms out, going through a trail of dark blue and blue pattern keyholes. After a while, it fades into a dark blue background as the keyhole moves to the left, closing itself in a large blue keyhole which fades in. After that, the large white text "LOCKSMITH" (in the Domaine Text Regular font) with "A N I M A T I O N" (in Futura Medium) spaced below it; both fade in, followed by a small text reading "A SISTER COMPANY" (with "SISTER" in its corporate font) aligned to the right.

Variant:

• A print version exists, sometimes seen in-credit.
• In their website (until November 2021), the colors of the logo was slightly re-palette.
• In end credits of Ron's Gone Wrong, their 2014 print logo was seen with their slogan that says "BROUGHT TO YOU FROM OUR LIVING ROOMS, KITCHENS AND CUPBOARDS ACROSS THE WORLD." on the top with Ron (from said film) is hanging on it at the bottom.

Technique: The keyholes in the beginning was animated by DNEG Animation in CGI (who also animated Locksmith's animated debut film, Ron's Gone Wrong) and the logo at the ending (and their print logo) was animated by Locksmith themselves.

Music/Sounds: It's unknown since Ron's Gone Wrong was their first film but so far, it could be the opening theme of the movie.

Availability: Common. This first debuted as an print logo sometime in 2014, and later made its first on-screen appearance in 2021 with Ron's Gone Wrong.