Warner Animation Group/Summary

## Background

In 2013, Warner Bros. relaunched their feature animation division as Warner Animation Group, debuting with *The Lego Movie*.

### 1st Logo

(February 7, 2014-May 15, 2020)

**Nicknames:** "CGI Shield", "The WB/WAG Combo", "The WB/WAG Shield Transformation", "Shield in the Sky", "Shield of Steel", "2010s Shield"

**Logo:** We start with the normal Warner Bros. Pictures logo, but the shield is rendered differently, and it turns around to reveal a shield similar-looking to the standard Warner Bros. Pictures logo, but has a white border and red interior, and the letters "WB" are replaced by "WAG", while the wording on the banner reads "Warner Animation Group". The banner is also lower than usual. A Time Warner byline is below it in gray.

**Bylines:**

* 2014-2016: "A TimeWarner Company"
* September 23, 2016-September 22, 2017: "A TimeWarner Company"
* July 21, 2018-May 15, 2020: "A WARNERMEDIA Company" (with "WARNERMEDIA" in its own logo font)
* Early 2021: "a **Warner**Media Company" (This is only seen in the trailers for *Tom and Jerry*)

**Variants:**

* On the teaser trailer for *Storks*, the shield is still, smaller, and less shiny, and the Time Warner byline is larger and red.
* Starting in September 2016 with *Storks*, the letters on the banner were changed from lowercase to uppercase. This was used in tandem with the previous logo for a while.
* Each film has a different variant of this logo, all of which can be described below:
	+ **The Lego Movie (2014)**: The logo is made entirely out of LEGO bricks, hence the name of the movie. First, the logo starts with a blue LEGO baseplate background being pulled up from the bottom of the screen. Then, four LEGO clouds held by string drop down from above, followed by a brick-built version of the shield being pulled up by another piece of string with the "TimeWarner" byline printed on a long blue brick attached below it via yet another piece of string. After a few seconds, the shield flips around and reveals a LEGO version of the Warner Animation Group logo. Afterwards, the clouds get pulled back up and the background drops down, and then the shield also proceeds to be pulled upwards, transitioning to the Village Roadshow Pictures logo, which is also made out of LEGO bricks.
	+ **Storks (2016)**: The completed logo is shown on a white background. After a few seconds, it flips around to reveal the WAG logo, which then fades out into the background.
	+ **The Lego Batman Movie (2017):** The entire logo is recolored to black and blue, and doesn't start after 15 seconds. Also, Batman’s narration was heard.
	+ **The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017):** The logo animates in the style of 1950s-1970s Chinese film studio logos.
	+ **Smallfoot (2018):** After the shield is revealed, its animation speeds up a little and the byline fades in a little late, just like in the IMAX 3D version of the logo. The logo's background turns windy and the shield freezes solid. The shield then shatters to reveal the Warner Animation Group shield, which then dissolves afterwards.
	+ **The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)**: Similar to the first film, but with the "WarnerMedia" byline instead. Also, when everything in the logo pulls away from view, the following background is black with some stars slightly seen.
	+ **Scoob! (2020):** It starts entirely normal, which makes the first appearance of the standard Warner Bros. logo on a Warner Animation Group film. After the shield flips right into the WAG logo for a few seconds, it pans down to California, where the film takes place.

**FX/SFX:** The shield flipping.

**Music/Sounds:** The opening theme of the movie.

**Music/Sounds Variants:**

* *The Master* and *The Lego Batman Movie* both feature the opening narration.
* *Scoob* uses the 1999 Warner Bros. Pictures fanfare.

**Availability:** Seen films from WAG from the 2010s mostly, it debuted on their first film *The Lego Movie* and made its final appearance on *Scoob*, released on May 15, 2020. Don't expect this to appear on *Teen Titans Go! to the Movies*, as the Warner Bros. Animation logo is used instead. This logo also appeared on the trailers and TV spots for the 2021 *Tom and Jerry* movie, despite the film itself using the next logo below.

**Editor's Note:** The colors of the WAG shield are more reminiscent of the how the shield appeared in *Looney Tunes* cartoons that were released in the 1950s.

### 2nd Logo

(February 10, 2021-)

**Nicknames:** "CGI Shield II", "The WB/WAG Combo II", "The WB/WAG Shield Transformation 2.0", "Looney Blue and Red Shields", "The Joy-Con Shields", "Shield in the Sky II", "Shield of Steel II", "Bannerless WAG Shield", "AT&T Shield", "The 2020s Shield"

**Logo:** Same as the 2021 Warner Bros. Pictures logo, but rendered slightly differently. When the logo reaches its final position, it flips into an updated Warner Animation Group logo, now in the current shield with an red interior, no banner, and the text on the shield updated. The logo shines as the WarnerMedia byline fades in during all this.

Variants:

* Like the previous logo, it sometimes vary on each film:
	+ *Tom and Jerry* (2021): when the WB shield rotates and zooms out it was superimposed above the skyline of NYC. After the shine on the WAG shield, the camera pans down to the opening shot for the start of the film's opening credits.

**FX/SFX:** Nice CGI animation.

**Music/Sounds:** Same as the previous logo.

**Availability:** Brand new. First appeared on the 2021 *Tom and Jerry* movie, and will be seen on future WAG films. The normal version first appeared on *Space Jam: A New Legacy*.

**Editor's Note:** Solid CG throughout, and compared the first logo, the WAG shield looks even more like the *Looney Tunes* shield.