Flying Logos

First shown at the 1989 Siggraph Electronic Theater to a rave response, this 3 minute humourous film went on to win several top computer graphic awards that same year including Niccograph of Japan.

With a voiceover soundtrack written by Peter Conn and animations assembled from various productions done during the previous year, the film unfolds as a client calls into Flying Logos, Inc. to have his logo visualized. In the course of the conversation, we see and hear the juxtaposition of the technical versus the anticipated, the imagination versus the possibility.

But more important than amusing audiences and winning awards, this landmark film marked the debut of the PC as a fully capable production system to do broadcast quality work, which up to then was only done by large companies with very expensive graphic workstations.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• computer
• animation
• homer
• associates
• siggraph
• flying
• logos
• pc
• digital
• pixels
• sorry
• peter
• conn

[aemiliae]

Sorry, does anyone know where I can find the transcription of the voiceover soundtrack? Thanks a lot

[peterfconn]

I wrote it but don't think I have a script sitting around any more. It's pretty easy to transcribe. let me know if you need help.

[WillWill45]

I can tell the client must work at World Access Television.

[peterfconn]

Yeah, World Access Television which closed their doors before the animation was even complete.

[WillWill45]

01:10-01-12: Noteced an DiC logo in there (the "Kid In Bed"). Also, the anouncer was saying over that logo "extracted from an star". So that reveals that Flying Logos produced the Kid In Bed.

[peterfconn]

Homer and Associates did a logo for DIC circa 1989. It may have been used in a show called Kid in Bed but Homer had nothing to do with the show.

[RetroToledo]

@peterfconn The "kid in bed" is what most people tend to call that particular "closing logo" that DIC used for a number of years.

[aemiliae]

Thank you anyway! I'm doing a kind of essay about it for College and I understand what they say in a general way, yet I would like to know it precisely. I guess maybe some english-speaker friend of mine could help me =)

[Ainurah]

OMG, where did you find this?

=O

I remember this.

[WillWill45]

I was refering to an logo. That's the nickname.