Gecko Studios

Background
Gecko Studios was a production company that was formed by Elliot Strange in 1987 and based in Tyler, Texas. Gecko was initially formed by Strange in order to co-finance a syndication package for a show he was working on, out of protest for network mandates imposed on it that led to numerous unwelcome changes. In 1998, Gecko was bought out by Sterner Stuff and was refocused to handling acquisitions of animated properties. After the financial failure of their last film, Gecko would heavily scale back on future productions and shift focus to the blooming internet streaming market. The company went on hiatus in 2011, and would shut down for good a year after. Strange initially served as the head of animation production in a newly revitalized Sterner Stuff, but stepped down in 2020.

1st Logo (1987-1992)
Logo: On a white background, we see a boy and a girl. The boy is sitting and leaning on a table with a smug expression, while the girl is standing, visibly angered and cracking her knuckles. "GECKO STUDIOS" is above in a small black Courier New font. The image cuts out as she readies to punch the boy.

FX/SFX: Traditional animation.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Appeared on syndicated episodes of The Halloween Gang. Would also plaster the Blessard Animation Productions logo on episodes from the show's first season and the first five episodes of the second season (the latter being attributed to a trade-off during the show's initial broadcast. The same principle applies to initial home media releases by Family Home Entertainment. However, after Blessard bought back the rights to the show, references to Gecko were removed and by extension, logos already on the show were replaced by the logos for Blessard Animation Productions, Cookie Jar Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television.

2nd Logo (1994-2006)
Logo: We fade in to the inside of a car, where we see a muscular girl driving. The girl from the previous logo is sitting in the passenger seat. Some flies crash into the windshield, leaving behind gecko shaped smudges. The driver activates the wipers, but the smudges become a big orange smudge with the word "GECKO" on it. The "O" is replaced by a gecko embryo.

FX/SFX: Traditional animation.

Music/Sounds: Sounds corresponding to the actions, played against an easy listening tune.

Availability: Seen on the Streamline Pictures dub of The Fairies of Silver Platte, the end of Inside-Out Boy and the start of The Doomed Stones.

3rd Logo (1998-2000)
Logo: In a messy room, we see the girl from the previous logo sitting by a computer. "GECKO STUDIOS" is on the wall behind her, arranged in the "Hollywood sign" fashion. As the girl clicks on something, a live-action fist emerges from it and punches her off-screen.

FX/SFX: Flash animation, with a mix of stop-motion animation.

Music/Sounds: Either the closing theme of the show or none.

Availability: Extinct. This was seen on the ultra short-lived 1998 revival of Inner Sanctum. It also appeared on the second episode of The Halloween Kids, which was technically the first episode produced for the show.

4th Logo (2000, 2006-2010)
Logo: Against a highway at night, we see a car speed by from behind. It hits a bump, causing one of its hubcaps to fall off. The hubcap moves toward the viewer and settles, revealing a gecko embryo etched onto it with the company name written on the tail.

FX/SFX: 3D animation.

Music/Sounds: Sounds corresponding to the actions.

Availability: Extinct. Was seen on The Halloween Kids, which hasn't been seen since 2002 when it last aired on Texas-based Fox affiliates. Also appeared on the web series Chemical Girl, which initially appeared on Revver, as well as on New Skin which was streamed on TheWB.com.