Shires Animation Studios

(December 22, 2006-)

Nickname : "Steamboat Winnie"

Logo : A gold paper flips in the logo onto screen, drawing a red outline of Matthew Mouse wearing a steamboat hat. The paper finishes flipping as an outline of Matthew turns into a scene from the 1928 Shires cartoon Steamboat Winnie, and below the picture, the words "Shires" write themselves in the signature corporate font (with a slight modification), with "ANIMATION STUDIOS" fading in underneath.

Bylines:
 * 2011-2012: "A TimeWarner Company" (with "TimeWarner" in its own logo font)
 * 2013-2014 present: Bylineless.
 * 2015-present: "A Lionsgate Company".
 * 2018-present: "A Pentagon Company".

Variants :
 * On new animated shorts, as well as at the beginning and end of movies, the logo is cut down to its last few seconds.

FX/SFX : Mostly CGI.

Music/Sounds : The opening and ending theme plays over the logo, or it's silent.

Music/Sounds Variants :
 * On Meet the Robertson, Bullet, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse 3, Freeze Frame, Herself the Elf, The Velveteen Rabbit, Freeze Frame 2 and Marina, The sound of pages turning followed by a cheerful tune that Matthew's whistling with music in the cartoon.

Availability : Current. It was first seen at the end on Meet the Robertson, and can be seen on every Shires animated feature henceforth, most recently Chris and Dhris Rescue Rangers, as well as short films like Freeze Frame: Frame by Frame, Big Villain 6: B-Movie, Zoomania: Pretty Zoo and Marina: Gone Fishing and has appeared at the beginning and end of all Shires features starting with Bullet.

Editor’s Note : None.

In-Credit Notice

(December 27, 2013-present)

Logo : Just an in-credit notice, whose font depends on the movie, reading:

Created and produced at

Shires Animation Studios

www.shires.com

FX/SFX : Just the text scrolling up with the credits or none.

Music/Sounds : The end theme of the movie.

Availability : Seen at the tail end of the credits of the studio's films, starting with Freeze Frame: Frame by Frame, The Day of Chihuahua, Big Villain 6: B-Movie, Chris and Dhris Rescue Rangers, Zoomania: Pretty Zoo, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, Marina: Gone Fishing, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse 3, Freeze Frame, Herself the Elf, Big Villain 6, The Velveteen Rabbit, Wicked Ryan 2, Zoomania, Freeze Frame 2, Marina and Light Bugs Movie Land.