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Background

Amberwood Entertainment (formerly known as Amberwood Productions) is a Canadian animation studio company founded in 1999. The company bought Lacewood Productions' assets from Paragon Entertainment Corporation the following year. Amberwood was best known for producing The Secret World of Benjamin Bear (a follow-up series to Lacewood's The Teddy Bears specials), Hoze Houndz, Katie and Orbie and RollBots.

1st Logo (October 4, 1999-)

Visuals: On a black BG, the words "Amberwood" and "PRODUCTIONS" (later "ENTERTAINMENT"), in green, fade in one after the other. A gold line is drawn in between.

Variant: On season 2-4 of The Secret World of Benjamin Bear, there is an end credits border over the logo.

Technique: 2D animation in the "PRODUCTIONS" version, while none in the "ENTERTAINMENT" one.

Audio: The end theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on programs from the company such as Hoze Houndz, Pumper Pups, RollBots, Rob the Robot, Wolf Joe and season 4-6 of Katie and Orbie.

2nd Logo (September 11-December 5, 2004)

Visuals: On a black background, the words "Amberwood" and "PRODUCTIONS" were shown in reverse moving and rotating forward in correct position, then the line appears, then the shine wipes and changes the color to green, then flashes twice until it holds on the letter "A", then the text "Productions" appears.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: Same as the 1st logo.

Availability: It was only seen on Zeroman.

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