Kijón Moving Picture Communications is the vanity card for 5 animation producers, which became the most famous animated series makers of the 1980's: Kanjo Mé-Bene, Isabela Majagrán, José Biguracin, Onteniente Tzas-Kabim and Nacimiento Orlucán.
1st Logo (1977-1986)[]
Visuals: The sequence starts off with a space background with stars shining each other. Suddenly, a comet strikes to the center of the screen, to reveal a red, white-neon-ish line. The line then rotates slowly to reveal a close up of an abstract K, which soon became rainbowed when the logo has revealed exactly at the same minute. It zooms out extremely and then returns to its place, causing a cerulean neon smiley face to jump in. The neon smiley face then lifts it's hand, and then "paints" the K in purple. Soonly after that, the text "Kijón" zooms out the screen, and then a line jumps in mid-air. The line then unfolds to reveal the text "Moving Picture Communications" on Isabela's script, all in blue, with conjoint with the line. The logo then flashes and then zooms in to the viewer, with one second of black background.
Variants:
- A short version also exists, starting with the face laughing and drawing.
- A still version also exists, seen on shows like Quick and D**k.
Technique: Cel animation.
Audio: A quiet synth note apppears, followed by a synth noise and an explosion, which transfers into a triumphant fanfare about to start. Then, a laugh from the face is heard, and then drawing and spinning noises are heard. A cartoony-ish sound with trombones and xylophones appears, followed by a 8-note rock theme. A whoosh is heard when the rock theme ends. All composed by Marco Buj-Kelé.
Availability: Common, as far as 80's logos go. Seen on Aagu Kye-Zumbedé, Estrella del Cajón, Himejiru Burakku Farideiyo (in it's spanish dub), La Cantalla del Saguán, Bienvenido a Bikka, Scolders of the South Not Formally Digested and Sobacrón Sigán. The short version is more common than the others. It can be seen on later shows, such as Honibán Konica.
2nd Logo (1986-2003)[]
Visuals: On a red background, there is an egg. And when the egg is broken, many things morph all at once, following a vicious circle in such fast animation, such as a bee, a monkey, a worker, an elephant, some doodles, colorated paint, an pig, a reckon talking, two pipers slapping, an ornament, a vomit, your organs, among more. They all do their actions, all with the background changing colors, patterns and designs. Strobe lights are seen when the things finish doing their actions. However, the background then splatters unto cubes and the morphing now becomes a crazy cardiogram, following to the cubes forming the screen once again and we see an realistic eye with an elephant trunk, a disjointed stomach, a macho arm and some object show-like legs and foot. It then gets painted in it's respective colors, gets animated, shoots four laser beams and strikes the ground of the background while it's still changing colors. The background then stops changing to see a cyan background and we see the text "KiJoN", in any of them being on all the creators' scripts, in order of letters. The eye then gets it's trunk roaring, looks at us and then shatters the screen, following into a white hole which transfers into the screen to become extinct. We then cut to black.
Variants:
- On the logo's earliest years of life, it had a byline over it. It says "Una producción subsidiaria de SIGUE TVE", beacuse they made programs from the TVE logo.
- A short version also exists, starting with the crazy things.
- In some cartoons, the text "MOV'NG PICT'R COMMUNICAT'NS" also on red appears over the text "KiJóN", starting to move from left-stay-right. That was beacuse they didn't want to mislead the company's name, as childrens would define what is the full name of Kijón, or it would not had any, as the "Team17" logo.
- Strangely, this appeared on some episode of Being Ian on it's spanish dub, beacuse an error on said television station collided when they have testing over the random vanity cards from every single animation. Said error was, beacuse they would never press the button "VIDA" (which generally means release), a button which the logo with it's other vanity cards, was to finally appear on television. Thankfully, it preceeded the YTV logo from the time, but still stands as one of the oddest editing mistakes ever made.
- A still version also exists, with the background being either one of the backgrounds that changed over the forming of the background.
Technique: Cel animation.
Audio: None, then the egg shattering, and then when it's shattering considering the effort, we hear a lot of random sound effects due to the various activities going on in the logo, culminating with a high-pitched dog barking and a laser beam sounds. The music is a 34-note bassoon tune throughout the whole logo and a catchy drum sound; once the logo gets still, we hear a delayed elephant trumpet, and to end, a shattering sound of a glass wall appears over the music, followed by a loud Whoosh.
Audio Variants:
- In some cartoons, the ending theme of the show is heard.
- The logo was on warp speed starting with the 2000's, with the cartoon, Jiguán Sock-On.
- A low-pitched variant also exists, seen on Juega, Vivo, Juega!
- A short version of the music exists too.
- A high-pitched variant also exists, seen on Chilijano el Mamón and Don Devar y sus Mocos.
- Some shows had an 8-bit sound, mainly beacuse of errors of the company or even the company declared bankruptcy for 2 days, that it decided to change the company's music.
Availability: Unknown.