Ice Breaker

== 1990–1991 (original pre-production) ==
Ice Breaker was originally conceived by Dutch animators Ton Roosendaal and Bram Moolenaar sometime in the 1980s while working at King Features Syndicate. Blender Animation (known as Blender Feature Animation at the time) was approached by Victor Hugo Pictures Film Corporation, the distributor of the final film, to produce an animated feature film in 1989. With its original draft completely different from its final version, the film initially began pre-production in June 1990 for release in Christmas 1992, being intended to be the first feature-length animated film directed by Roosendaal, who designed the characters for the film. However, Blender abandoned the film in April 1991 after they had already designed six months worth pre-production and left the project. The font used for the logo is Trajan Pro, but stretched.
==1997–1999==
In 1996, Blender Animation revived the project and the staff brought in John Pomeroy to help rewrite their 1990 script with additional input from Mike Saldanha and John Brenner. As Roosendaal was busy on other projects at the time, writer Francis Lawrence was selected to direct the film in his directorial debut. Victor Hugo Pictures then returned to the film in 1997 and secured Blender's first animated feature with the film.
The typeface changed to a condensed Helvetica-style font with the text becoming lowercase (with solely the initials being capitalized.) This was only used on the teaser trailer and the first trailer as well as during production.
==1999==
In 1998, the logo was finalized, featuring the text in 3D with a broken ice texture on it (hence the title.) This was used on the second and final trailers in 1998, as well as on TV spots and eventually the final film in 1999.
== See also ==
* Ice Breaker (TV series)
* Ice Breaker 2
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