We've chosen to call our company "Handprint Productions".
We had made a list of possible names, which we narrowed down to three;
- "Blinding Light Productions"
- "Glass Eye Productions"
- "Handprint Productions"
The way we chose was by thinking of logos/animations for each.
- text coming up, then being engulfed by a blinding white light
- a 3D glass eye rolling accross the bottom of the screen
- a handprint appearing on screen
After talking to the technician, we realised that the Glass Eye one would take too much time to do and was too complicated, the Blinding Light one could work but it was quite simple, so we decided on Handprint. It had a nice ring to it, and we realised that the animation was simple enough to look professional.
This is the image we manipulated in Adobe After Effects. We inverted it so that it was a white hand on black, then we tinted it a dark red colour to make it seem sinister, and indicate blood and danger and horror stuff...
We chose to have simple white text (in courier to look like typing) underneath the handprint logo, and added the copyright symbol and 2009 in roman numerals to make it look more realistic and professional.
We're all very happy with the company logo :-)
