Feedback, Please! (My Animated Business Logo)
 

Here it is in all its glory:

http://homepage.mac.com/tdsproductio...eTheater1.html

(May take a moment to load.)

Please give me some honest feedback! The idea behind this was to show motion (dynamic) and a bit of color, relating to television and film (in the spirit of color bars).

The static logo will be a freezeframe of the animated one for use on business cards, etc. The animated logo will be used to front my productions, as well as the opening page of my website.

Cool! I like it!

I think it's pretty.
Thumbs up.
:)

Here's the static logo:

Well, shoot. I can't see either the animated or the static.

Eek !!! 40.7 Mb :eek:

...now downloading.... Only another 6 minutes to go.

Since you asked for feedback: I dig the circular part, but I felt the words appeared so quickly that the effect used when they appear is completely lost. I'd slow that down a tad.

The static version you posted isn't working.

I likey but I echo CP's comment above. Put the circly part up a tad longer, or the words up a tad longer before they disappear. It seems so ... sudden (maybe compare it to a logo just slowing the entire thing down, as it stands, by a second). Also, 40MB is way too big for a front page logo, there's gotta be a way to shrink that down. Otherwise, good work! :)

Yeah, I'd definitely agree with CP - and add that - from a marketing standpoint - while the animation is cool, your company name doesn't stay static at the end; you may definitely want to land on it (because - as you're still a new company - name recognition is really important, and it's hard to stick it in people's heads if the logo doesn't stick around at the end of the animation for at least a few seconds.)

Also to Chernie's point, click-through data has shown that the longer it takes a page to load, the less people stick around to see it. This is not to say that you have to limit yourself to HTML - there's all kinds of great SEO for flash these days, and there are a lot of cool tricks you can do to improve loading - I'd recommend talking to a flash specialist for implementation. (I've got a crew of them if you need ideas.)