Millar Gough Ink

Background
Millar Gough Ink is a production company founded in 1997 by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough. They are known for having produced the Superman prequel television series Smallville, the 2006 pilot of Aquaman, the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels, the AMC series Into The Badlands and the MTV series The Shannara Chronicles.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011-2015)
Nicknames: "Orange-Red Ink", "Ink Bottle Gets the Hammer", "Orange-Red Ink Splashing"

Logo: In an office setting, at the forefront, we see a bottle filled with orange red ink in it labeled: MILLAR GOUGH INK

in an impact font colored, with the bottom half of "INK" in white/. After one of the music variants are heard, a hammer (which, if you look very closely can be seen in the reflection on the bottle) falls down and breaks the bottle, causing the ink to fly everywhere and cover up the whole screen.

Variant: On the short-lived show The Strip and some 4:3 prints of Smallville, there is an open-matte version of the logo.

FX/SFX: The hammer smashing the ink bottle, the ink spreading. All live-action effects.

Music/Sounds: Here are the main music variants in the logo:


 * 1999: After the closing theme of the show plays, there is a splattering sound.
 * 2001-2002: Just a sound of the bottle breaking.
 * Early 2002: An odd 3-note piano tune with an eerie sound effect.
 * 2002-2011: A reverberating cartoon ditty.

All music variants ended with the sound of a bottle breaking. Sometimes, louder.

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * On the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug", the bottle breaking sound is absent.
 * On early season 2 episodes of Smallville, the reverberating cartoon ditty is somewhat slightly quieter before the bottle breaking sound appears.

Availability: Common. First seen on the short-lived show The Strip, and later seen on Smallville and the 2011 version of Charlie's Angels. It also made an appearance on the 2006 pilot of Aquaman, which was initially released on iTunes and later included as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray release of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.

Scare Factor:
 * 2001-2002: Medium to high. The bottle suddenly breaking with no warning can be jarring to many people, especially after the long silence during both this logo and the one before such as the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo.
 * Early 2002: Medium, due to the eerie music, but tame compared to the previous variant.
 * 2002-2011: Low to medium. It is slightly less scary with the music playing.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)
Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH" in color. To the right of it is a beaker with a black drop in it, and inside the drop, we see the text "INK", also in  color.

FX/SFX: None.

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

Availability: Seen on the 2015 AMC series Into the Badlands and the 2016 MTV series The Shannara Chronicles.

Scare Factor: Low. The logo on a black background can creep someone out, but it's tamer than the last logo.

3rd Logo (Fictional Revival Logo) (2020-present)
Logo: On a black background, we see the 2015 Millar Gough Ink logo zooming out, then it stops zooming out, making the white screen appear, then disappearing.

Variant: As a horror logo remake, the music is scary with mixed pitches. The variant was created with VEGAS Pro and KineMaster.

FX/SFX: Animation created with KineMaster.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 1st logo but slowed really down. The improved version is shown where the 1st logo's theme is in stereo, and the sound of the glass breaking is slow and has the reverb effect.

Availability: None.