History LogoJoke / DreamWorks

[[Creator/DreamWorksSKG DreamWorks]] has its UsefulNotes/{{Trademark}}, a moon with a child (generally a boy) fishing from it. The company's works often play with the skyline, [[ButtMonkey put the boy through some sort of misery]] related to the story, or replace the boy with a character from the work.

* VideoGame/DreamWorksAllStarKartRacing: The DreamWorks logo's nocturnal setting is adapted as a race track titled "Galactic Sky".

* VideoGame/DreamWorksAllStarKartRacing: Every playable racer has access to a selection of custom parts designed to represent the [=DreamWorks=] logo (the blue clouds as the chassis and the Moon Child on the tires).

* ''VideoGame/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' for UsefulNotes/PlayStation and UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn: The boy's line gets a tug, and the boy is violently yanked off the moon by a raptor, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyl77NjhqiM here]].

* VideoGame/DreamWorksAllStarKartRacing: Every playable racer has access to a selection of custom parts designed to represent the DreamWorks logo (the blue clouds as the chassis and the Moon Child on the tires).

** ''WesternAnimation/TrollsBandTogether'' debuts a secondary version where ''Kung Fu Panda'', ''The Boss Baby'' and ''Trolls'' are replaced with ''Madagascar'', ''The Croods'' and ''Puss in Boots''.

** ''WesternAnimation/TrollsBandTogether'': The [=DreamWorks=] logo takes the scrapbook approach again, however there is a variation of the 2022 logo with the music in a lower key. This is to allow for the music to transition into the song ''Perfect'' once the scrapbook logo appears.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Three Hundred Big Boys" has Professor Farnsworth visit a gene therapy shop titled "Gene Works SKG", with the fisher boy in the logo using a DNA strand as a fishing line. [[note]]The genetic engineering is also a homage to [=DreamWorks=] producer Creator/StevenSpielberg working on ''Franchise/JurassicPark''.[[/note]]

* ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' for [=PlayStation=]: The Commando Elite climb up the line, throw the kid off the moon and use the line to pull in the title, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W24A88rRHfg here]].

** ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBabyBackInBusiness'': The Creator/DreamWorks Animation logo is shoved aside and replaced by Ted Templeton Jr. on a swivel chair shaped like the moon. He tells his secretary to hold all his calls, and goes to sleep on the chair. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlV_0ss9dz4 here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'': Bullwinkle does his magic trick and pulls Rocky out of a hat, who flies up to the Creator/DreamWorks Animation logo, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBqC8PMEYJk here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinotrux}}'': Revvit carves a Creator/DreamWorks logo into the ground that features Ty Rux and him fishing on the moon, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_9Yn7IaUsQ here]].

* Beginning with ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' (seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTl-lInUAo here]]), the moon boy is redesigned to be an androgynous moon ''child''. The logo has the child fly around the universe on the moon, greeting various [=DreamWorks=] animated characters, before flying into the sky and casting a fishing line.

* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'': As the original orchestral-acoustic music changes to a military fanfare, the boy throws away his fishing rod to pull out a rifle and put on a helmet. He then jumps off the moon, deploying a parachute, but it gets stuck at the bottom of the moon, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBL0tc03rgs here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' debuts the logo with the moon boy riding a bunch of balloons to the moon.
* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2010'' debuts a new logo in a 3D format against a nighttime background.
* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'' debuts a new logo, which starts off in a 2D animation style and cleverly transitions into 3D CGI.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' debuts a new logo in a 3D format against a nighttime background.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'': Mr Wolf climbs up to the moon with his grapple gun.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': a Night Fury flies around in the background, revealing it to be a reflection in the water, which then follows a pan ''up'' to the opening scene.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': A leopard in a coolie hat in a NinjaRun, skips across a body of water, fishing pole in hand, leaping up onto the crescent moon to take the boy's place, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTzOolTfcTY here]].

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': The "S"'s in the [=DreamWorks=] logo turn into the "S" in the movie's title, [[spoiler: reflecting Fiona's nightly transformation]]. [[note]]While an animated feature, this was a [=DreamWorks=] SKG release, as [=DreamWorks=] Animation would not be formed until 2004.[[/note]] The series' {{leitmotif}}, "Fairytale", also replaces the normal logo fanfare; said score track would later become the normal [=DreamWorks=] Animation theme.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'': The music for the [=DreamWorks=] logo at the start is an A Capella version of "Fairytale" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', the standard version of which is usually used on older versions. At the end, the whole logo is done up like one of Poppy's scrapbook pictures, with the fishing boy having Troll hair.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' spinoffs:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' spinoffs:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': The "S"'s in the [=DreamWorks=] logo turn into the "S" in the movie's title, [[spoiler: reflecting Fiona's nightly transformation]]. [[note]]While an animated feature, this was a [=DreamWorks=] SKG release, as [=DreamWorks=] Animation would not be formed until 2004.[[/note]] The series' {{leitmotif}}, "Fairytale", also replaces the normal logo fanfare; said score track would later become the normal [=DreamWorks=] Animation theme.

** ''[[HalloweenSpecial Scared Shrekless]]'': The boy is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHexCsB5hQ scared by a wolf howl]] and hides behind the crescent moon.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'': The music for the [=DreamWorks=] logo at the start is an A Capella version of "Fairytale" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', the standard version of which is usually used on older versions. At the end, the whole logo is done up like one of Poppy's scrapbook pictures, with the fishing boy having Troll hair.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' spinoffs:
** ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn'': In the intro, Poppy forms a crescent with her hair while sitting on Cloud Guy. She then uses a twig as a fishing rod and casts Guy Diamond and the [=DreamWorks=] Animation logo up. Guy Diamond then puts glitter on the logo as we hear the first line of the theme song. The group then jumps down transitioning into the rest of the intro.
*** An in-episode example pops up in the middle of "The Imposter". Poppy discusses Branch's paranoia issues, and it cuts to him trying to explain that the man in the moon is actually a boy fishing, demonstrating with a silhouette of the [=DreamWorks=] default logo.

* Beginning with ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' (seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTl-lInUAo here]]), the moon boy redesigned to be an androgynous moon ''child''. The logo has the child fly around the universe on the moon, greeting various [=DreamWorks=] animated characters, before flying into the sky and casting a fishing line.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' debuts a new logo, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTl-lInUAo here]], that has the moon boy redesigned to be a moon ''child'' (the ambiguous gender is meant to bring in more viewers). The logo has the child fly around the universe on the moon, greeting various [=DreamWorks=] animated characters, before flying into the sky and casting a fishing line.

The DreamWorks Animation logo has had various changes over the years:

* ''''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''' debuts a new logo in a 3D format against a nighttime background.
* The ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'', debuted a new logo, which starts off in a 2D animation style and cleverly transitions into 3D CGI.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'': The animation is accompanied by lively Spanish music, including the sound of a whip-crack which coincides with the boy casting out his fishing line.

[[Creator/DreamWorksSKG DreamWorks]] has its UsefulNotes/{{Trademark}}, a moon with a boy fishing from it. The company's works often play with the skyline, [[ButtMonkey put the boy through some sort of misery]] related to the story, or replace the boy with a character from the work.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' is set to debut a new logo, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTl-lInUAo here]], that has the moon boy redesigned to be a moon ''child'' (the ambiguous gender is meant to bring in more viewers). The logo has the child fly around the universe on the moon, greeting various [=DreamWorks=] animated characters, before flying into the sky and casting a fishing line.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': a Night Fury flies around in the background. This otherwise introduces the new vanity plate for Creator/DreamWorksAnimation (which exploits the 3D with a more elaborate fishline-swinging). The usual pan down opening shot is inverted as the scene transitions by the night fury flying in front of the logo, revealing it to be a reflection in the water, which then follows a pan ''up'' to the opening scene.
** The third film, ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'', introduces another [=DreamWorks=] Animation logo: the logo starts off in a 2D animation style and cleverly transitions into 3D CGI.

* ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' for [=PlayStation=]: The Commando Elite climb up the line and throw the kid off the moon, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W24A88rRHfg here]].
* ''VideoGame/TaiFuWrathOfTheTiger'': A dragon flies by the moon, and carries off the fisher boy. Tai'Fu then takes his place and the game's logo forms, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_ZsTOKCp0 here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' is set to debut a new logo, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTl-lInUAo here]], that has the moon boy redesigned to be a moon ''child'' (the ambiguous gender is meant to bring in more viewers). The child has the moon fly around the universe, greeting various [=DreamWorks=] animated characters, before flying into the sky and casting a fishing line.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'': Belt is sitting on the moon, and strikes a light to illuminate it out of darkness.

** ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'': After a "20 Years" version of the regular [=DreamWorks=] logo, the logo appears on an ice cliff face with the boy in the moon. Part of the cliff then breaks off to reveal the silhouettes of the four penguins on top of each other, [[CallBack taking the boy's place with the penguin on top holding the fishing rod]]. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDmPqvDMIqw here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': The "S"s in the [=DreamWorks=] logo turn green and grow ogre ears [[spoiler: reflecting Fiona's nightly transformation]]. [[note]]While an animated feature, this was a [=DreamWorks=] SKG release, as [=DreamWorks=] Animation would not be formed until 2004.[[/note]] The series' {{leitmotif}}, "Fairytale", also replaces the normal logo fanfare; said score track would later become the normal [=DreamWorks=] Animation theme.
*** The film was originally to have the logo fade into the crescent moon on Shrek's lavatory.
** ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'': The camera pans down from the logo, which is then covered by storm clouds.

* ''VideoGame/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' for UsefulNotes/PlayStation and UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn: The boy's line gets a tug, he exclaims "Caught something!", and the boy is violently yanked off the moon as a raptor snarl is heard, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyl77NjhqiM here]].

* The video game ''Shrek 2:Beg For Mercy'' has Puss in Boots swing by the logo on a rope.

* ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'': Sherman sits on the crescent moon, casting the fishing line.

Later on the advent of streaming services and tv channels contributed to more [=DreamWorks=] TV cartoon shows, so it's nownormal for all [=DreamWorks=] cartoon shows to have their own take on the logo.

Later on the advent of streaming services contributed to more DreamWorks TV cartoon shows, so it's nownormal for all [=DreamWorks=] cartoon shows to have their own take on the logo.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' is set to debut a new logo, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTl-lInUAo here]], that has the moon boy redesigned to be a moon ''child'' (the ambiguous gender is meant to bring in more viewers). The child has the moon fly around the universe, greeting various DreamWorks animated characters, before flying into the sky and casting a fishing line.

** Some Chinese releases (before DW sold off their share in the company now known as Pearl Studio) used the Oriental [=DreamWorks=] logo, where the moon is formed from a paint stroke and a panda (inspired by Po) sits on the moon, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeUorEKVp_M here]].