DNA Productions

Background: DNA Productions was an animation company founded in 1987 by John A. Davis and Keith Alcorn. Undeniably it's most successful project was Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius for Nickelodeon. The company closed down in 2006, following The Ant Bully. Many of its employees went to work for Reel FX Creative Studios, while others went to O Entertainment and founded its animation division, Omation.

1st Logo (1991-1994)

WARNING: Due to graphic violence, pictures and videos of the VHS or "The Honeymoonies" variants are not allowed on this site.

Logo: On a white background, three people (A man with a beard on the left, a black woman in the middle, and another man with a beard on the right) are seen making funny faces. The pictures are all in boxes and in grayscale and the text "1992 DNA Productions" is seen under them.

Variants:

In 1993, the picture changed to three people (a man with a moustache on the left, a man with an afro and a beard in the middle, and a teenage boy on the right) making funny faces.

"The Nanna & Lil' Puss Puss Show" VHS tape from Expanded Entertainment replaced the people with a cartoon grandma trying to shush her cat but he explodes his head and the grandma hiccups.

The Nanna & Lil' Puss Puss short "The Honeymoonies" replaced the people with an image of the cat from the previous variant holding up the grandma's head with blood.

FX/SFX: The text wobbling.

Music/Sounds: A group of men singing "HA HO HA HEY HAAAAAAAAAA!"

Music/Sounds Variants:

On the Nanna & Lil' Puss Puss short "Off the Record", the voices of the ssinging men are backwards.

The VHS variant has a violin playing and hiccuping sound effects.

Music/Sounds/Trivia: The hiccuping sound effets will be later stolen by a Spongebob episode.

Availability: Seen on Nanna and Lil' Puss Puss.

2nd logo (1994)

NOTE: The 2nd-6th logos (and the prototype variant of the 7th) can be seen here.

Nicknames: "Tchaikovsky rip off!"

Logo: We see a road with cacti spread about it on the sides. The camera zooms into a drive-in theater, with large signs depicting "The Demo: Now Showing On Screen 1". Once it fully zooms into a screen, we see an animated pegasus flying in the air as normal. A purple cat with a scientist's outfit flies by, Suddenly, the pegasus is in shock and it crashes into a giant rock formation, with the big letters "DNA" carved into it. The camera slowly pans out. The text "DNA" in a white Times New Roman font is seen at the bottom left of the screen throughout the entire logo.

FX/SFX: CGI and traditional animation.

Cheesy Factor: Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto #1" is stolen in the logo.

Music/Sounds: The stolen Tchaikovsky muic playing and a final, triumphant chord playying as the rock structure is revealed.

Availability: Seen on Nanna and lil puss puss.

3rd logo (1994)

Nicknames: "The DNA Pencil Sketch"

Logo: On a background that looks like a multicolored light's rays and an abstract, multi-sided, pointy shape, we see a green pencil sketch turn from a "D" into an "N" and finally into an "A".

FX/SFX: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A fast, dramatic piano piece.

Availability: Seen on Nanna and lil puss puss.

4th logo (1994)

Nickname: "Paper DNA"

Logo: Just three pieces of paper being crumpled over and over, each saying the letters "D", "N", and "A".

FX/SFX: TBA.

Music/Sounds: A gurgling sound, spitting, and a burp.

Music/ounds/Trivia: The burp sound effect will be later stolen by the Preschool Popstars song "I didn't mean to burp!" and a Total Drama Island episode.

Availability: Seen on Nanna and lil puss puss.

5th logo (1994)

Nickname: "DNA?" "Spinning DNA"

Logo: The logo consists of "DNA?" in a bold color-changing font spinning on a bluish background.

FX/SFX: The text spinning.

Music/Sounds: A circus theme.

Availability: Seen on Nanna and lil puss puss.

6th logo (1994)

Nicknames "Hockey Homicide rip off"

Logo: The word "DNA" places itself by letter on a textured floor. The letters are textured as well.

FX/SFX: The letters placing themselves.

Cheesy Factor: They stole some sound effects from the Mickey Mouse episode "Hockey Homicide"!

Music/Sounds: The stolen sounds which are two men shouting "D! N! A!" alternating between letters as each letter appears.

Music/Sounds/Trivia: The sound effects will be later stolen by the Space Ghost episode "Sequel".

Availability: Seen on Nanna and lil puss puss.

7th logo (1994-2002)

Nicknames: "The Cat"

Logo: On a very dark red background with the same cat from the 2nd logo on a circle, we see the pink text "DNA PRODUCTIONS INC." in a cartoony font. The cat then turns his head to look at us, and jumps to face us while holding his arms out. The text shines.

Variant: On Nanna and lil Puss Puss, the background is black, the circle is blue and the text is red and puffy, the cat also raises his finger in the variant.

FX/SFX: The cat turning around and jumping, the text shining; pretty fluid animation.

Music/Sounds: The best way to describe the noises heard is two series of echoing, bouncy, high-pitch, distorted "guitar notes", followed by an echoing beat, and a loud, echoing, bubbly (SPROING) sound as the cat finishes his jump. The variant had a chipmunk woman speaking gibberish.

Availability: Rare. Seen on the Jimmy Neutron pilot episode, Jingaroo and Nanna and Lil Puss Puss.

8th Logo (2002-2006)

Nicknames: "Hi, I'm Paul!" "Stolen Kid Pi Music"

Logo: On a tropical background complete with a beach, and a sunset, we see the black, lowercase text "d n a productions" with "d n a" bigger and spaced and "productions" underneath, near the top of the screen, and two double helix coconut trees twisting behind a bush. A monkey named Paul jumps up from behind the trees with his back turned to us. Then, he turns around and waves at us, saying "Hi, I'm Paul!"

Variants: There are six variants, they can be viewed on dnahelix.com:

Two Pauls: Two Pauls appear and say "Hi, we're Paul!"

Spanish Time: Paul is wearing a mustache, when he turns around, he says his line in Spanish. Oddly enough, his voice is different.

Paul says something different: Paul says "Oh my gosh!" and leaves.

What Now: Paul gets upset, and says "So what do you want me to say now?"

Paul's line: Paul says "Hi, I'm.....line?"

Paul's Gone: Paul is gone. A man's voice says "Paul?"

FX/SFX: The spinning trees, and Paul jumping up and waving to us.

Cheesy Factor: The logo has stolen some music from a children's computer game called Kid Pix

Music/Sounds: The stolen music which is a xylophone ditty and Paul saying his line.

Music/Sounds/Trivia: The music will be later stolen by an educational game called Dinosaur Detectives, The intro of Canimals, a video game called Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures, an episode of Monstories called "Paramonsters", Curious George 2, a video game called 53 in 1, a children's app called Splash Math. an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode, a Polish children's show called Domisie, a Treehouse online game, a Wiggles game called Wiggles: It's Wiggle Time, a Rock N Learn video called "Alphabet Circus", the Lifesavers Skeeball game, a Neopets game, an unknown game which has a man dancing to it at a bar, a children's app called Picoclub, a cotton candy machine which was featured in a Tiny Treaures and Toys video, two DVD burners called IMGBurn and CloneDVD, an Aldi commercial, a Qubo bumper, a lot of alphabet videos that Alila Tangahu used to watch, a video game called Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land, a Johnny Test episode and a lot of Italian lotto machines when you win a ticket.

Availability: Seen on Jimmy Neutron.

9th logo

(2018-2019)

Nicknames: "TCF Rip off!!"

Logo: same has the 20th Century Fo Television logo but the text is replaced with "DNA PRODUCTIONS".

Cheesy Factor: The TCFTV logo is stolen.

Trivia: It got replaced with the next logo because it ripped off the TCFTV logo.

FX/SFX: Same as the TCFTV Logo.

Music/Sounds: Same as the TCFTV logo but with Paul saying his name instead of the last note.

Availability: Seen on Annoying Orange.

10th logo

(2019-)

Logo: We see a gorilla jumping in a cage at a zoo and it suddenly jumps at the camera and it fades out.

FX/SFX: Everything.

Music/Sounds: An earrape version of the 8th logo.

Availability: Seen on The Adventures of Zombie Goerge Washington.