Vantage Animation (France)

Background: Vantage Animation was an animation studio based in Angers, France and a subsidiary of Vantage Capital. The latter was restructured as Film Science due to financial issues and the company became devoted to film production. The company had a steady growth throughout the 70s and early 80s, but their later productions began to make less money and was marred by their manager, Karl Ange, who wanted each film to target one specific age demographic. He was replaced in the late-80s and the company never improved, with their output at that point getting criticized for utilizing dated concepts and appealing to fads at the time. In 1995, Vantage was left in the hands of Davi Abramov. At the same time, Abramov decided to merge Vantage with another studio, Le Bombe Numerique Produktion, to pool resources, forming Synapse Movement and Design soon after. The Vantage name would fully dissolve near the end of 1997.

1st Logo

(1970s-1980s)

Logo: On a black background, we see a line getting drawn in. The line becomes 3D and we see it's part of a rainbow grid. The grid becomes solid as it condenses toward the middle and drops forming a box. The box contains two green triangles, one upside down, one facing upright. "VANTAGE ANIMATION" fades in below.

FX/SFX: The line and grid.

Music/Sounds: An orchestrated fanfare.

Availability: Seen on films from the period, like Wink the Kindly Giant.

Editor's Note: Decent effects for the time.

2nd Logo

(1980s-1990)

Logo: On a black background, two green triangles are drawn in (both in the same fashion as the previous logo). The company text is wiped in below.

FX/SFX: The wiping.

Music/Sounds: A synth flute sounder.

Availability: Same as above. One film that had this was Dog Boy. Compared to the company's other logos this is the most common.

Editor's Note: A much cheaper effort compared to the previous logo.

3rd Logo

(1990-1995)

Logo: We start on a pale pink background. Part of it flies off revealing an upside down triangle. The background changes color as "ANTAGE" appears letter by letter vertically. Soon, the right-facing triangle and the letters "NIMATION" appear.

FX/SFX: The words appearing.

Music/Sounds: A synth tune, ending with a harp playing against the sound of paper ripping.

Availability: Rare. Vantage's output was very limited at this point. Tree Town had this logo, and it's one of the easiest Vantage films to find as it had a wider release (the remainder of Vantage's films were only released domestically due to financial problems, whereas that film was co-produced in Canada.

Editor's Note: An interesting effort and a good logo to go out on.