Minimax (partially found identity package from Spanish children's TV channel; 1995-2006)

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Image at the end of an ident, showing the logo and the six mascots.

Status: Partially Found

Date found: Unknown

Found by: Unknown

Minimax is a children's channel that originated in Spain, and has spread to Eastern Europe. It currently airs in Romania, Hungary, Serbia, The Czech Republic, and many other countries. It has also aired previously in Poland, and there are reports that it aired in Italy and the UK. The channel's current identity package, which is from 2013, is an updated version of the 2006-2013 identity package.


History of the 1996-2006 Minimax identity package

The 1996-2006 identity package is, in fact, the channel's second one. The original package was very different. [1] The second package was most likely implimented in 1996, but the farthest back footage was from 1997. It is only recently that there has been actual evidence confirming the identity package survived 2 years into the third logo (which was in 2004), and there seemed to be evidence of the third identity package being released at that time. [2] (Notice that the characters are from the third identity package) It wasn't until 2016 with the release of Sirokman David's ident complatation that showed idents with the new logo.

A notable thing about the identity package is that it is technically three different packages from three different groups, with a possible fourth group in Poland. The first group's idents had the most "surrealism" to them, often went "off-model" (possibly intentionally a la Ren and Stimpy) and had a group of voice actors who's roles were inconsistent. [3] The second group looked like the first, but the models were more consistent, and the voice acting was possibly pitched up. [4] The last one had an almost completely differnt art style, and was made with the new logo in mind. (See video 4)


Video Gallery

A collection of promos and idents from the Spanish version of Minimax.

Another video of promos and idents from the same month.

The first video of Minimax idents that Sirokman David uploaded.

The second video uploaded by Sirokman David. Note that this is the only currently known video on the internet showcasing the third set of idents.


Identity of Package Designer and Possible identities

Another thing to note is that it seems that absolutely no one on the web has claimed to have worked on any set of the idents. This is a list of candidates for just the original designer.

Martin Lambie-Nairn - Possible but Unlikely: The wikipedia article for Minimax once claimed that "The first look was designed, animated and directed by Martin Lambie-Nairn in 1996." However, the only other webpages claiming this were copy-pastes of the article in question, and it was removed on the second of March in 2016. [5] A tweet asking whenever to confirm or deny the claims went unnoticed. [6]

Francesc Capdevila aka "Max" - Disproven: A commenter on reddit said that the idents looked similar to the art style of Capdevila. [7] However, when asked about this on facebook, he claimed that he did not work on them. He gave no reply on if he knew who did [8]

Peer of "Max" - Possible: It would explain why the art styles are similar. Max himself has neither confirmed nor denied this.

References