Bob Bain Productions

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum


Background

This is Bob Bain's production company.



1st Logo (December 4, 1996)

Visuals: On a black background is a sign made up of six multi-colored flashing bars with gray borders and varying heights over a dark blue disk. Over the bars is "BOB BAIN", with each letter inside a purple lid of a flat cylinder, and "Productions" as a neon sign constantly flickering. A film grain effect is placed over the logo.

Technique: 2D computer animation.

Audio: The ending theme of the program.

Availability: Seen on the 1996 Billboard Music Awards.

2nd Logo (Late 1990s-April 21, 2001)


Visuals: On a black background is the words "bobbain" with a dark blue down arrow with the stem being squiggly. Behind the words, there's a yellow bar on the left side of the screen: all of this is in a extreme close up. It then quickly zooms out with a yellow bar going to the left of the screen and it causes the word "bob" to turn yellow. The word "PRODUCTIONS" appears below in a small uppercase font.

Technique: 2D computer animation.

Audio: A male voice saying "Space station slime, we have a problem." In the middle of the dialogue, a burp is heard.

Audio Variant: On N*Sync: 'Ntimate Holiday Special, the end theme of the special (or a generic theme on Fox airings) plays.

Availability: Seen on the 2001 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and N*Sync: 'Ntimate Holiday Special, which was last seen in 2005. Though none of these specials have received home media releases - nor are they currently reran (so it's gone for good) - it may have been seen on the company's previous specials in the 1990s.

3rd Logo (April 20, 2002-March 31, 2012, August 11, 2019-)


Visuals: On a black background is the stacked silverish-blue text

BOB
BAIN
PRODUCTIONS

all with lines underneath, turning with a shining light effect.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A synthesized sweeping sound with an announcer saying "This has been a Bob Bain production."

Audio Variants:

  • Sometimes, it doesn't feature the voiceover.
  • On 2005-2012 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, SpongeBob SquarePants (voiced by Tom Kenny) does the VO.
  • On the 2003 Kids' Choice Awards, Cosmo from The Fairly OddParents (voiced by Daran Norris) says "Bob Bain Productions! I love it! Woo-hoo!"

Availability: Seen on special events like the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (starting in 2002), the Miss America pageants, Teen Choice Awards, Your Mama Don't Dance, and Dance Fever (2003), among others. Originally retired in 2012, it returned in 2019 with the 2019 Teen Choice Awards.

4th Logo (September 6, 2010)


Visuals: There is a shot of some burnt-out shoes, with the company name zooming in, being in a different cyan font with a pink shadow.

Technique: 2D animation and live-action.

Audio: The 2005-2012 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards audio from the previous logo.

Availability: Only used on Nickelodeon Mega Music Fest 2010 which has been found since more than a decade.

5th Logo (March 23, 2013-)


Visuals: On a black background with several blue sparks is

BOB
BAIN
PRODUCTIONS

stacked like before, only it's now in blue and in CGI. As the logo slowly flies up to the center of the screen, a large blue circle pulses around the stack.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: SpongeBob (once again voiced by Tom Kenny) says "This has been a Bob Bain production," and then does his signature laugh. On the Teen Choice Awards, it's either the end theme of the special or a female announcer saying the mentioned line above.

Availability: Used in tandem with the second logo. Seen on the Kids' Choice Awards and the Teen Choice Awards from 2013 to 2015.

6th Logo (July 31, 2016-August 12, 2018)


Visuals: On a black background, "bobbainproductions" types in. A hashtag zooms from the top right corner to the first "b".

Technique: 2D computer animation.

Audio: The end theme with a typing sound and a ding when the hashtag zooms down.

Availability: Only appeared on Teen Choice Awards shows during the time.

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