Mainframe Pictures
From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum
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Background
Mainframe Pictures is an American film production company.
1st Logo (March 29, 2019-February 10, 2023)
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Standard version
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Shortened variant
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Ten Minutes to Midnight variant
Visuals: On a black background with a film grain filter, multiple glowing solid white lines draw or extend to form "MAINFRAME" while the screen slowly zooms out. After that, "P I C T U R E S" flashes below "RAME". Lastly, the logo zooms in while leaving an extending trail. The screen goes through the "R"'s counter.
Variants:
- A shortened variant begins during the last half of "MAINFRAME"'s formation and ends with the logo blurring out.
- On Ten Minutes to Midnight, the sequence is in fullscreen, put through a rounded rectangular TV monitor, and glitches at random moments.
- On Christmas on the Carousel, there is snow across the screen.
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: None or the film's opening theme.
Availability: The logo is seen on Long Lost, Ten Minutes to Midnight, Christmas on the Carousel, and She Came from the Woods.
2nd Logo (January 19, 2024-)
Visuals: On a black background initially with a monitor effect, a long white trapezoid with an inner cornflower blue neon glow zooms out while briefly leaving an outlined trail. Two more geometric shapes of the same fill format fly in, forming a stylized "M". When two diagonal neon lines shoot past the edges of the logo, it gains a magenta-blue violet freeform gradient fill, sharpens to clearly display the gap between the lines, and light traces the inside of the logo's outline while the gradient subtly changes. After the lights leave the screen, "M A I N F R A M E", set to the same fill as the text, appears below. At the end, the sequence cuts to blurred magenta and blue lights flying away from the center.
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: The opening theme of the film.
Availability: The logo is seen on Founders Day.
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