Cardinal XD
From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum
Compiled by
NotPurpleHoodieBoi
NotPurpleHoodieBoi
Background
Cardinal XD is a worldwide media sales, distribution and production company founded by Jeff Goldman.
1st Logo (Mid 2015-)
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Visuals: On a gray-white background is "cardinalXD" abruptly appearing, colored red and black with a thin black outline and a drop shadow zooming slowly with a moving red lens flare in the back. The text fades out after a second.
Technique: Computer animation.
Audio: None. On some cases, the opening theme.
Availability: Debuted on One Rock, Three Religions. It would later reappear in tandem with it's other logos on films such as Demise.
2nd Logo (July 17, 2016-2017)
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Visuals: On a zooming blue starfield is a black globe with red colored continents orbiting, with a white transparent lens flare moving in the background. Beneath, "Cardinal XD" colored red and gray fades out of focus in which then defocuses. A curved gray arrow extends behind the glove, stopping in a diagonal portion. A flare can be seen passing underneath "Cardinal XD". A wave of light then passes through the globe and the text.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: A synth-pad note which changes pitch at some point with faint spacey SFX in the background.
Audio Variant: On Dwelling and Dark House, no theme is heard.
Availability: Shown on Attack of the Killer Donuts, Dwelling, Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies and Dark House.
3rd Logo (August 28, 2020-September 7, 2022)
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Visuals: From a white background enclosed in a black hole, there is a black wireframed morphing object in which the screen appears to be split diagonally with two different angles of said object. Two thin brackets pass through the hole's edges as "CARDINAL XD", in red and black fades slowly. The black hole closes and swaps with the white background in which the inner compresses and the outer extends further, revealing out four gray moving hedron shapes on all corners, in which fade. The text zooms slowly.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: None or the opening theme.
Availability: Shown on Don't Read This on a Plane and Malibu Crush.
4th Logo (April 16, 2023)
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Visuals: On a teal background, there are subsequent cyan lines forming out an arch-bent image of the continents of the flat Earth, with "CARDINAL XD" and the byline "A MEDIA COMPANY" under them. During the formation, the screen zooms out. The cyan lines light up, and when finished, the colors of the elements fade in. The rest is colored white, sans "CARDINAL", in red. The lights then dissipate.
Technique: Computer animation.
Audio: An odd rising whoosh ending with a 4-note heavenly synth.
Availability: Shown on Final Summer.
