GoAnimate

Credits

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Background

GoAnimate (stylized as Go!Animate until 2013) is an American cloud-based animated video creation platform founded in 2007 by Alvin Hung. It is designed to allow users with no background in animation to quickly and easily create animated videos. These videos can be created in multiple styles, including 2D animation, whiteboard animation (a.k.a. videoscribing or scribing) and video infographics. The service was later renamed to Vyond on May 6, 2018. However, its developer and owner GoAnimate, Inc. still retains its former name.

Go!Animate

Contents 1st Logo (January 22?, 2009-September 13?, 2010) 2nd Logo (September 13?, 2010-October 7?, 2013)

GoAnimate

Contents   (October 7?, 2013-June 30, 2019)

Go!Animate

1st Logo (January 22?, 2009-September 13?, 2010)

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Visuals: On a black background, "Created with" fades in. Once it fades in, the 2007-2010 Go!Animate logo in black and white falls and lands on the ground. A stick figure's three clones are seen fading in on a flip book. "G" bounces, "o" runs and an exclamation point appears to form "Go!" in orange.

Technique: Digital 2D animation.

Audio: None.

Availability: Its first known appearance was during in January 2009 as the outro of GoAnimate videos at the time, then appeared on GoAnimate videos that were exported onto YouTube during March-September of 2010 (and the exporting feature was only available to GoPlus users at the time, so that may or may not be the reason for the rarity).

2nd Logo (September 13?, 2010-October 7?, 2013)

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Visuals: There is a gray background with some characters from different themes (Lil' Peepz, Stick Figures, Politics & Celebrity, Monster Mayhem, AKON, Comedy World, Cartoon Classics, Space Peepz and Lil' Petz World). "created with" fades in. The 2010-2013 Go!Animate logo comes in quickly, and it stops. The tagline "easily make animations exactly the way you want." fades in moving.

Trivia: The logo was created by GoAnimate founder Alvin Hung.

Variant: There's a zoomed-in version on the late-2010 demo, it lacks the "created with" text and the exclamation mark doesn't flicker a bit when the logo stopped.

Technique: Digital 2D animation.

Audio: None.

Availability: Seen at the end of almost every GoAnimate video from 2010 to 2013.

GoAnimate

Logo (October 7?, 2013-June 30, 2019)

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Visuals: On a turquoise background, there is the "o" in orange. Some Business Friendly characters (two children, a dog, two men and one woman) are seen running to enter the "o", then it bounces and rings are seen zooming in to expand the now dark blue background. "Animate" is seen coming behind the "o". The "o" moves rapidly to expand "Animate" and several stripes are seen moving quickly and they fade away. The camera zooms to see the unfinished GoAnimate logo. A arrow cursor comes out of the "o" and moves. It comes back dragging the "G" and enters back to the "o", forming the GoAnimate logo, which is the same as the second Go!Animate logo, only that it lacks the "!". "Created with" and the tagline "Make Professional Animated Videos. Easily." move quickly above and below the GoAnimate logo from the left and right respectively.

Trivia: Like the previous logo, this logo was done by Alvin Hung.

Variant: This logo exists in 14:9 and 16:9 aspect ratios.

Technique: Digital 2D animation.

Audio: None.

Audio Variant: On some videos, the audio at the very end of the preceding video will play for a split second before abruptly stopping, leaving us with the usual silence.

Availability:

• Seen at the end of almost every GoAnimate video from 2013 to 2019. It also plastered older GoAnimate logos on newer prints of older videos.
• The audio variant can be found on some videos made by the GoAnimate user NotSmirks.
• This outro is the last to be used on any GoAnimate or Vyond video. Beginning in early to mid 2015, this outro was phased out from videos made using the GoAnimate/Vyond website and no GoAnimate or Vyond video made on the site have used an outro ever since. Despite this, it remained in use on videos made using GoAnimate for Schools (a school-safe version of the site) up to its shutdown on June 30, 2019.

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