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You're effectively designing a logo. A logo needs to look good in print, on screen and in motion. If your logo doesn't look good in a simulated end slide of a title sequence, it's not going to suddenly look good with some animation. A good pencil + paper logo will look far better than any hastily thrown together animation.
As it stands, your logo looks like a poor imitation of the current one. You said you were trying to take it in a modern 'flat' direction, but you've now added loads of gradients and borders - it looks nothing like modern 'flat' design, and not as good as the old 3D version.
TLDR; get the basics right before worrying about how it will be animated.
As it stands, your logo looks like a poor imitation of the current one. You said you were trying to take it in a modern 'flat' direction, but you've now added loads of gradients and borders - it looks nothing like modern 'flat' design, and not as good as the old 3D version.
TLDR; get the basics right before worrying about how it will be animated.