Melnitsa Animation

Background
Melnitsa Animation is a Russian animated studio based in St. Petersburg and founded in 1999.

1st logo (March 20, 2003; February 4, 2005-December 24, 2010)
Logo: On a black background, a windmill is being drawn with the bottom resembing "M" and the wings of the windmill made out of pencils. "МЕЛЬНИЦА" and "СТУДИЯ АНИМАЦИОННОГО КИНО" (Animated film studio) appear below.

FX/SFX: The drawing, the words appearing. Basic 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: It was seen only on one movie: Little Longnose (2003), however, it still appeared on video games based off their movies starting with the "Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey" game (2005) and ending with the "How Not to Rescue a Princess" (Три богатыря и Шамаханская царица) game (2010).

Editor's Note: None.

2nd logo (December 23, 2004-)
Logo: On a white background, we see a hand holding a yellow pencil with "MELNITSA" written on it. The hand draws the Melnitsa logo and writes "СТУДИЯ АНИМАЦИОННОГО КИНО "МЕЛЬНИЦА" И КИНОКОМПАНИЯ СТВ представляют" (THE "MELNITSA" FILM ANIMATION STUDIO AND STB TELEVISION COMPANY present). The hand then flips the paper, and the logo transitions to the movie.

FX/SFX: A mix of stop-motion and 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: Sounds of the pencil writing and the paper flip sound.

Availability: Common. Seen on all Three Heroes movies starting with "Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey" (2004). It was recently used on "Three Heroes and a Horse on the Throne" (2021).

Editor's Note: None.

3rd logo (December 14, 2008)
Logo: On a sunny background with hills, a windmill on two legs walks up one of the hills. Later, someone goes into the "windmill-house on the legs" and it transitions into the Melnitsa logo, but with the windmill on the right and both "МЕЛЬНИЦА" and "студия анимационного кино" on the right. FX/SFX: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Only seen on The Tale of Soldier Fedot, The Daring Fellow (2008).

Editor's Note: None.