Editing Animals (Pink Floyd album) (section)

==Packaging==
{{See also|Pink Floyd pigs}}
[[File:Battersea Power Station in London.jpg|alt=Photo of a large brick building with four tall chimneys, one at each corner.|right|thumb|[[Battersea Power Station]] (seen here in 2008) is the subject for the album's cover image.]]
Once the album was complete, work began on its cover. [[Hipgnosis]], designer of the band's previous album covers, offered three ideas, one of which was a small child entering his parents' bedroom to find them having sex: "copulating, like animals!"<ref>{{Harvnb|Blake|2008|p=245}}</ref> 

The final concept was, unusually, designed by Waters. At the time, he lived near [[Clapham Common]], London, and regularly drove past [[Battersea Power Station]], which was approaching the end of its useful life. A view of the building was chosen for the cover image, and the band commissioned the German company Ballon Fabrik (who had previously constructed [[Zeppelin]] airships)<ref>{{Harvnb|Povey|2007|p=201}}</ref> and the Australian artist [[Jeffrey Shaw]]<ref name=medienkunstnetz>{{Citation|url=http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/pig-for-pink-floyd/|title=Jeffrey Shaw, Pig for Pink Floyd|publisher=medienkunstnetz.de|access-date=21 May 2009|archive-date=12 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112104500/http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/pig-for-pink-floyd/|url-status=live}}</ref> to build a {{convert|40|ft|m|order=flip|adj=on}} pig balloon (known as ''Algie''). The balloon was inflated with helium and manoeuvred into position on 2&nbsp;December 1976, with a marksman ready to fire if it escaped.{{Cn|date=July 2024}}

Inclement weather delayed work, and the band's manager [[Steve O'Rourke]] neglected to book the marksman for a second day; the balloon broke free of its moorings and disappeared from view. The pig flew over [[London Heathrow Airport|Heathrow]], resulting in panic and cancelled flights; pilots also spotted the pig in the air. It eventually landed in [[Kent]] and was recovered by a local farmer, who was apparently furious that it had scared his cows.<ref name="Blakep246">{{Harvnb|Blake|2008|p=246}}</ref> The balloon was recovered and filming continued for a third day, but as the early photographs of the power station were considered better, the image of the pig was later superimposed onto one of those taken by professional photographer Howard Bartrop on location on a residential block of flats adjacent.<ref name="Blakep246"/><ref>{{Harvnb|Mason|2005|pp=223–225}}</ref>

During the ''[[2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony|Isles of Wonder]]'' short film shot by [[Danny Boyle]] and shown as part of the Opening Ceremonies of the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] in London, the camera zooms down the length of the River Thames, from a small spring in the countryside all the way to the Olympic venue. During the fly-by, a pig can be seen floating above Battersea Power Station.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/2012/opening-ceremony-the-isles-of-wonder.html |title=Opening Ceremony: The Isles of Wonder&nbsp;– Video |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=30 July 2012 |archive-date=30 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730093341/http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/2012/opening-ceremony-the-isles-of-wonder.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The album's theme continues onto the record's picture labels.  Side one's label shows a [[fisheye lens]] view of a dog and the English countryside, and side two features a pig and sheep, in the same setting.  Mason's handwriting is used as a [[typeface]] throughout the packaging.  The [[gatefold]] features monochrome photographs of the dereliction around the power station.