Lean-M

Background
Lean-M (a.k.a. "Lean-M Producers Center") is a Russian-based television production company that was founded in 2000 by producers Timur Weinstein, Vyacheslav Murugov, and Oleg Osipov. On February 8, 2007, Sony Pictures Television acquired a 51% stake in Lean-M. On April 13, 2009, SPT acquired another 16%, and in 2010, SPT acquired the remainder. The company didn't have an animated on-screen logo until 2006.

1st Logo (March 6, 2006-)
Nicknames: "Cardiogram", "Lean-M EKG"

Logo: On a black background, a glowing orange cardiogram line is drawn in and "ЛеанМ" ("LeanM") in a scraggly angular handwritten font wipes in. At the same time, a two-colored rectangle bar extends below, consisting of a gray part with the words "продюсерский центр" ("Producer center") in black and an orange part with "ЛЕАН-М" in white. Then the logo ripples, blurs and shrinks horizontally, and "представляют" ("present") wipes in from the left and shines.

Variant: At the end of the Russian adaptation of Everybody Loves Raymond named Voroniny and the Russian adaptation of The King of Queens named Newlyweds, the logo glitches and distorts than usual. This variant only appears on earlier episodes; later episodes have the normal logo.

FX/SFX: The cardiogram line and the logo forming. Nice CGI.

Music/Sounds: An electronic screeching sound, followed by an array of laser zaps and a downtempo tune. On earlier episodes of Voroniny, the last second of the theme is cut off.

Availability: First seen on the 6th season of Soldiers (Солдаты) and the 2nd season of Students (Студенты). Later, it was seen on several Russian sitcom shows and movies, including the long-running show Voroniny (Воронины). Since 2010, the logo is moved from the opening to the closing credits and is followed by the SPT logo (and since 2016 by the Sony-SPT combo). Most of the recent Lean-M productions have an in-credit mention instead, however, the logo was recently spotted on Alien Flock (Чужая стая), on Glubokaya Bay (Бухта Глубокая) and on The Criminal Doctor (Криминальный доктор).

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (December 11, 2007; January 17, 2008)
Nicknames: "Cardiogram II", "Lean-M EKG II", "Lean-M Off the Edge of Your Seat"

Logo: On a black background, we see a small light ping on the left pulsating. Wen the long beep is heard, the light becomes a cardiogram line as a straight line, then the heartbeat monitor draws almost identical zig-zags like in the first logo; on the third time, the line forms the word "ЛеанМ" ("LeanM"), in a glowing ghostly white, but less grungy and smoother font, and the two-colored rectangle from the previous logo, also with a ghostly white glow, appears. Once they fade out, the word "ЛеанМ" ("LeanM") suddenly reappears instead of "представляет" ("presents"), but larger. After a few seconds, the name fades out quickly, ending the logo.

Variant: A short version with the full logo already formed was seen on the trailer to После жизни.

FX/SFX: The cardiogram line, and the logo forming.

Music/Sounds: A series of high-pitched beeps from a cardiogram with deep ambient sounds in the background, a longer beep representing a flatline, a camera flash sound for each time the heart monitor drawing zig-zags, a mish-mash of a fiery whoosh, an electricity zap and another whoosh during the appearance of "ЛеанМ", an ambient drone accompanied by another beeps from a cardiogram, a very loud explosion, a la the 1st Epic Music Video logo, when "ЛеанМ" reappears and the sound of a woman breathing.

Availability: Appeared at the beginning of the 2008 Russian film После жизни (Afterlife).

Editor's Note: The dark atmosphere and borderline jump-scare at the end have been known to rattle some viewers.