Millar Gough Ink

Information
Millar/Gough Ink (formally known as Chiller Productions) is a production company by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)
Logo: In an office setting, we see a bottle with orange-red ink. A black label covers the bottom half, containing the words reading "MILLAR GOUGH INK". The words are colored in, an Impact font and a stacked format. The word "INK" below the two words has the bottom half in white. A split-second before the logo ends, a hammer (which can be seen coming down on top of it in the reflection of the bottle if the viewer looks very closely at it) swings down and smashes the bottle, causing the ink to spread everywhere, including covering up the whole screen.

Variants:


 * The logo appears in both a widescreen and fullscreen format.
 * On season 3 of Tex and Zeke, the words "Produced in association with" is above the logo.

Technique: Live-action.

Music/Sounds: Music/Sounds Variants: Availability: Common. First seen on The Strip and was later seen on Smallville, the 2006 television pilot of Aquaman and the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels. For the dream logo combo that has this logo, find the last video capture here.
 * October 16, 2001-February 12, 2002: Just the sound of a bottle breaking.
 * February 26, 2002-May 21, 2002: A three-note odd piano tune with an eerie sound effect is played in the background before the shatter sound.
 * September 24, 2002-November 10, 2011: A reverberating cartoon ditty prior to the shatter sound.
 * There is a variant that appears on the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug" where there is no audio in the logo.
 * On early 2nd season episodes of Smallville, including "Vortex", the cartoon ditty may play a little quieter.
 * The C&W airings of Smallville use generic themes and the announcer.
 * At the end of the short series The Strip, the closing theme of the show plays before the splattering sound.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)
Logo: Just the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH" with a beaker and a water-drop in it next to the words. Inside the drop is "INK".

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None, or the closing theme of the show.

Availability: Appears on the 2015 AMC series Into the Badlands, the 2016 MTV series The Shannara Chronicles and the 2022 Netflix series Wednesday.

(2020-)
Logo: On a black background, the logos inside of it move around, but the camera zooms out to reveal the current Millar Gough Ink logo. A white screen transitions to the same logo without some logos inside it.

Variant: The improved version has the logo played but is a little slow, and the logo would still play until the music stops and it fades to black.

Technique: None, animated in KineMaster. The improval version was made in VEGAS Pro.

Music/Sounds: The 2002-2011 Millar Gough Ink jingle but very slower.

Music/Sounds Variant: The improved version has the logo's theme being played, but more very slower. The bottle breaking sound is heard via the reverb effect in a low volume.

Availability: None.