Skydance Animation

Background

Skydance Animation is the subsidiary animation of the American production company Skydance Media which is based in Santa Monica, California. It was founded on March 16, 2017 when the company formed a multi-year partnership with Madrid-based animation studio Ilion Animation Studio. In 2020, Skydance Media acquired it and rebranded it to Skydance Animation Madrid. It currently has a multi-year film and television deal with Apple TV+.

(October 1, 2021-)

Prototype

Logo: On a space background, there is a green, grassy planet with paths in it. A rocket and a UFO, with blue and pink trails, respectively, launch out of the planet, forming an atom-like pattern. Cutting to different shots of the rocket and UFO flying, then to the final shot, as the UFO and rocket split and form a "T" trail, the UFO flies through the text "SKYDANCE", in the same font as the 2022 Skydance logo, as the UFO turns the text into silver from spinning around. The rocket draws a curved underline to the company's name, then the text "ANIMATION" (in Hurme Geometric Sans 2 Regular font) fades in underneath.

Trivia:

The rocket and UFO are from the short film Blush, and serve as the mascots of the company
The logo was designed and animated by John Lasseter

Variants:

A shortened version of this logo exists.
A prototype version exists on Blush, where the logo just fades in, is smaller, cut to its last seconds, and the blue trail and the rocket is absent, but a subtle, but faint yellow light can be seen.

FX/SFX: The text appearing and the drawing line, CGI done by Skydance Animation Madrid.

Music/Sounds: A calm horn fanfare (composed by Joy Ngiaw), There is a Behind the Scenes video that he posted on his YouTube channel, which you can see here, Sometimes it's the opening theme of the movie.

Music/Sounds Trivia: The music was adopted from the soundtrack from Blush.

Availability: Current. First seen on Blush as a prototype. It appeared on the trailer of Luck and the full version appeared on said film.

Editor's Note: None.