Black Lantern Studios

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum


Background

Black Lantern Studios was an American video game production company founded on August 19, 2003 in Springfield, Missouri. In February 2005, the company merged with Dungeon Monkey Studios. A decade later, on September 15, 2015, the company shut down.



1st Logo (April 25, 2005-March 21, 2010)

Visuals: On a black background, a gold box with a thin black border within it contains the top of a vintage, black lamppost. "BLACK LANTERN STUDIOS, INC.", in a left-aligned stacked format and white color, is besides the graphic.

Variants:

  • There is an early variant used in thte logo's first year where the text is in a fancy font, with "Studios, Inc." below "antern", and in normal capitalization.
  • On Tabloid Tycoon, the picture is larger, nearly matching the width of the text.

Technique: A still, digital graphic.

Audio: None.

Availability: The early variant appears on Elf Bowling 1 and 2, Board Game Classics, among other games released in 2005. The standard logo is seen on Go, Diego, Go! Safari Rescue, Disney: Wizards of Waverly Place, and ZhuZhu Pets.

2nd Logo (May 26, 2010-November 6, 2012)

Visuals: On a white background, a vertical orange rectangular box contains a gold icosahedron with thick black outlining, square faces for its center, and in a slanted angle. "BLACK LANTERN STUDIOS", in a stacked format and futuristic font, is below the graphic.

Technique: A still, digital graphic.

Audio: None.

Availability: The logo is first seen on Ben 10: Alien Force: The Rise of Hex and later appeared on ZhuZhu Pets 2: Featuring The Wild Bunch and Big Time Rush: Backstage Pass.

3rd Logo (October 14, 2014)

Visuals: On a white background, the box and text from before quickly slide from the top and bottom, stopping when next to each other. Then, the icosahedron slightly rotates, zooms out, and slams against the box, becoming white and releasing thin gold bordered waves for a brief period.

Technique: 2D computer animation.

Audio: Two echoed, descending hollow block hits.

Availability: The logo is seen on Duck Dynasty for 3DS.

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