Doge Animated Films

Background: Doge Animated Films (nicknamed DAF) was founded by the CEO of Doge Movies Incoporated in 2001 to rival Dreamworks and Pixar in producing high budget family animations. DAF made many 5 star films, and eventually came out on top of the animation industry.

1st Logo

(2001-2005)

Nicknames: 'Creepy Eyes', 'DogeGlasses'

Logo: On a dark crimson background, two eyes slowly open, before looking around the screen. The eyes are actually part of some dark crimson sunglasses, and as the camera zooms out, showing a light blue background, its revealed that the famous Doge head was wearing the sunglasses. They fall off, and the Doge head moves to the center of the screen. The words DOGE ANIMATED FILMS slide in from the right and stop abruptly in the center of the screen. The logo then fades to black.

Variants:There is a still, in credits version which shows the finished logo right before the fade. This can only be seen on 'Sonic : Return to Mobius (2002)' and 'Cyber Attack(2004, DVD only)'

FX: The eyes, the camera zooming out, the Doge head moving, the glasses falling off and the text sliding in.

Cheesy Factor: Low. The company name stopping abruptly made it look like an 80s VHS logo.

Music/Sounds: A quiet, three note hum, then when the camera zooms out, a fanfare kick in, ending on a high choir note.

Availability: Scarce. Can be found on early VHS/DVD releases of films such as 'Internet Takeover (2001)', 'Sonic : Return to Mobius (2002)', 'Shlurpy Slime (2003)' up until mid 2005, when this logo started to get plastered by the 2nd logo.

Scare Factor: Minimum to Medium. The dark background combined with the weird eyes at the beginning will get to some, and the sudden fanfare will scare others.

2nd Logo

(2006-2011)

Nicknames: 'X-Strips', 'Alien Doge'

Logo: On a black background, four identical filmstrips each with Doge faces on fall into an 'X' shape in the middle of the screen. The strips start to glow white, and they get brighter and brighter. Eventually, a white flash happens and a 3D Doge head appears where the'X' was, taking up almost the whole screen. The camera zooms out to show the words 'DOGE ANIMATED FILMS' in Ariel orange, and the text shines. After 5 seconds, a black chalkboard falls from the top of the screen (ala THX Moo Can logo) and in a white, chalk font the words 'MANY ANIMATED, SUCH ENJOY'. It then fades to black.

Variants: In the 3D variant, the filmstrips are already placed, and instead of a flash, a portal appears, and the Doge head flies out. The rest of the logo continues as normal.

FX: The filmstrips falling and glowing, a white flash, the camera zooming out, the shining text and the falling chalkboard.

Music/Sounds: A futuristic hum when the strips glow, and a choir for when Doge appears.

Availability: Uncommon. Can be found on many DAF DVDs from the time, as well as a few early BluRays and some theatrical prints.

Scare Factor: Low. The sudden appearance of the Doge face will startle a few, but nontheless, this logo is a favourite to many.

3rd Logo

(2011-2015)

Nicknames: 'Doge Cinema', 'The Doge Theatre'

Logo: On a starry backdrop, a cinema with the words DOGE MOVIES on it can be seen. The camera zooms into the open doors, and there are lots of people in the lobby, buying drinks and talking. The camera then zooms into an arch to the right with '1' at the top (aka a cinema screen), and the screen fades black. It then fades into red, and the camera pans upwards, revealing it is zooming along a red carpet. The camera then focuses on a large white screen, and then a Doge face fades onto the screen, before the words 'DOGE ANIMATED FILMS' appear in Helvetica gold. The screen then fades to black.

Variants : An IMAX variant exists, where the ending has lots of loud bass whooshes, and at the ending, the words 'MASTERED IN IMAX' with the words 'IMAX' in its trademark styling and font appear underneath the text 'DOGE ANIMATED FILMS', centered to the right and slightly smaller.

FX/Sounds: Twinkling can be heard when the stars are on-screen, and when the camera zooms, whooshes can be heard. When arriving in the cinema lobby, people talking and drinks being slurped is audible, and the door opening gives off a creaking noise.

Music: An extremely quiet, 4-note high pitched xylophone solo when outside the cinema, and an orchestral buildup as we approach the screening, and then multiple cymbals and trumpets as the doge face appears.

Availability: Original Variant : Uncommon, seen on lots of DVDs and BluRays produced throughout its lifetime.

IMAX Variant : Rare, was seen at the beginning of IMAX screenings of DAF movies, as well as on a TV airing of 'CyberAttack2 Return of Techezi (2009)' due to a plastering error.

Scare Factor: Low for the normal variant, medium for the IMAX variant (due to the loud bass whooshes)

4th Logo

(2016)

Nicknames: 'Remastered Crimson Glasses', 'Return of the 2001 Doge'

Logo: A remastered version of the 2001 logo, bumped up to 16:9 HD Widescreen, and after the words 'DOGE ANIMATED FILMS' slides in (minus the cheesy abrupt stop) the phrase 'CELEBRATING 15 YEARS' flashes underneath the text, and shimmers before the logo fades.

FX/Sounds : Same as the 1st logo, except twinkling can be heard when the text shimmers.

Music : A remastered version of the 1st logo's.

Availability: Rare. Was released on DAF's Twitter and on their official website to celebrate their anniversary but hasn't yet been seen on any of their releases.

Scare Factor: Same as 1st logo.

5th Logo

(2016)

Nicknames: 'Doge Flashbacks', 'Celebratory Doge'

Logo: On a black background, the words 'CELEBRATING 15 YEARS' fades in slowly, and zooms toward the screen slowly for about 7 seconds. Suddenly, the screen flashes white, and various clips from different DAF movies fly past, accompanied by a faint blue glare. After a while, the clips stop flying past, and an animator's hand holding a pencil slides into the scene, before writing 'DOGE ANIMATED FILMS' in the center of the screen in white ink. A doge head fades in above the text, and the words 'CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF GREAT ANIMATION' fades in below.

FX/Sounds : When the screen flashes, a reverse cymbal leading up to the flash plays, a seat-shaking bass crash after the films fly by and pencil sounds when the hand writes the logo.

Music : A mashup of all the different logo fanfares, accompanied with an angelic choir playing along to the tune of it.

Availability : Rare, only seen on DAF Blurays and theatrical releases during 2016. DVDs used the 3rd logo instead for some unknown reason.

Scare Factor : Medium. The sudden fanfare, accompanied with the seat-shaking sudden bass crash, its no wonder some people are scared of this logo.

6th Logo

(2017 -)

Nicknames:

Logo: The words 'DOGE ANIMATED FILMS' bounce in letter by letter in a cartoony style. Then, the 'DOGE' letters all look up and scream in cartoony, high pitched voices before a Doge head crashes down in front of the text, accompanied with more screaming and the letters bouncing around everywhere. The screen then fades to black.

FX/Sounds : A simple, energetic tribal drum solo, and when the Doge head crashes a sped-up version of the Windows 3.1 'tada' jingle plays.

Music : See above.

Availability : Common, seen on all DAF releases since 'The Journey to The Lost World' (2017).

Scare Factor : Low, the crash may startle a few but this logo is favored by many.