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BENT IMAGE LAB (or BENT) is a

Ray Di Carlo, and Chel White.[1]

Beginning in 2010, the studio began the production and development of television projects, including half hour animated holiday specials for the

Grimm (TV Series).[4] Since 2014, the studio has been developing augmented reality (AR) technology[5][6] and plans to launch their convergent computer vision
library in fall of 2019.

Work and techniques

Bent Image Lab is known largely for its stop motion animation, CGI/computer animation, character design,[7] and multi-technique projects.[8]

Bent's multi-technique approach can be seen in the Modest Mouse music video Whale Song (director Nando Costa),[9] the Thom Yorke music video Harrowdown Hill (director Chel White), the Coca-Cola ad Hidden Formula, the Lux soap ad Provocateur, a commercial for Kellogg's Rice Krispies[10]

One early and notable example of a BENT

Portlandia,[3] and commercials for Legos, Gatorade, Lux, OfficeMax[19]

BENT's

Puffs, and the American Lung Association. An example of the studio's hand drawn animation can be seen in the animated sequences of David Oyelowo's feature film, The Water Man (2020).[24]

Founders and directors

Bent Image Lab co-founder and director David Daniels invented an animation technique he termed

Levi's, Fanta
and broadcast promos Fox NFL.

Bent co-founder

Sundance Film Festival[38]

Bent Image Lab co-founder and executive producer Ray Di Carlo got his start in the film industry working on special effects in feature films. His first project was The Abyss (1989), where he came on as Lead Man for Donald Pennington. Di Carlo produced visual effects for I'm Not There, Paranoid Park[39] (2007), and Milk (2008).[40]

Bent director

At the Drive In and several videos for Aesop Rock (including the song Rings).[44] Shaw's animated short film, The Machine, a modern-day cautionary fable about humans and machines, won Best Animated Short from the 2010 Atlanta Film Festival.[45]

Bent director Solomon Burbridge's work includes short, mature-themed segments for

U.S. Navy. He has been a director at BENT since 2007. His film Phase 5 screened in the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.[46] Using the title Design Lab, Burbridge has often co-directed projects with director/designer Joshua Cox, who joined Bent in 2010. Their commercial clients include Honda, Bogs, Cartoon Network and a film for the Advertising and Design Club of Canada called The No Shit Show. Joshua Cox's short film Proximity was winner of the Animation Award in the 2014 New Orleans Film Festival.[47]

Argentine-born director Carlos Lascano is an accomplished filmmaker known for his short films, music videos, and commercials. His work includes a noteworthy ad for Coca-Cola Spirit of the Euro produced at Bent Image Lab.[48]

Bent Image Lab and/or its directors have won awards from the

SXSW.[52]

Visual effects

Since 2006, Bent Image Lab has created visual effects for feature films, television and more. The company was in charge of visual effects for film director

Smallgantics technique.[54]

Selected creative work

Notable awards and screenings

External links

  • Official website
  • "Three Artists Get Bent". Animation World Network.
  • "'Portlandia' Gets Bent with 'Zero Rats'". Animation Magazine. 8 March 2012.
  • Hale, Mike (23 November 2011). "Kicking Off an Animated Holiday Season". The New York Times.
  • "Stratacut". official website.

References

  1. ^ Baisley, Sarah (8 May 2003). "Three Artists Get Bent". Animation World Network. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  2. ^ Turnquist, Kristi (24 November 2011). "'Jingle All the Way' Hallmark special comes from Portland's Bent Image Lab". The Oregonian/Oregon Live. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Milligan, Mercedes (8 March 2012). "'Portlandia' Gets Bent with 'Zero Rats'". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Bent Image Lab Creates VFX for NBC's 'Grimm'". Animation World Network.
  5. ^ "youAR Unveils Secret Augmented Reality Tech Demo". Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Post Magazine - Bent Image Lab reveals new AR technology". www.postmagazine.com. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Animating Classic Characters".
  8. ^ "HOT HOUSE: Bent Image Lab - Studio Daily". 1 October 2006. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  9. ^ "Modest Mouse Gets Bent". 12 October 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  10. ^ "Making of Rice Krispies: Pop to Life". 23 February 2016.
  11. ^ ""Saturday Night Live" Robert De Niro/Destiny's Child (TV Episode 2004)". Retrieved 9 June 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
  12. ^ "Bent Image Makes Rudolph Rock for Saturday Night Live". Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  13. ^ "Robert De Niro/Destiny's Child". 18 December 2004. Retrieved 9 June 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
  14. ^ "Holiday Spots: It's That Time of Year | Computer Graphics World".
  15. ^ Elliott, Stuart (1 December 2014). "CBS Hopes This Holiday Promotion 'Glows'". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  16. ^ Fisher, Cydney (6 December 2014). "BENT does stop-motion promos for 50th Anniversary of "Rudolph"". Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  17. ^ "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 4-D".
  18. ^ Hale, Mike (23 November 2011). "'Jingle All the Way' and Other Holiday Cartoons - Review". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  19. ^ "Q&A: Director Chel White". December 2004.
  20. ^ "49th Annual Annie Awards".
  21. ^ a b "BENT Creates Lucha Libre Legend with TAXI 2 - Computer Graphics World". www.cgw.com. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  22. ^ "Bent Creates Lucha Libre Legend with Taxi 2". Archived from the original on 2019-08-07. Retrieved 2019-08-07.
  23. ^ "Bent Image Lab Animates 'Love Story' for Chips Ahoy". Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  24. ^ "The Water Man movie review & film summary (2021) | Roger Ebert".
  25. ^ http://stratacut.com
  26. ^ "What are all those paint men digging? - 'Buzz Box'".
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  28. ^ "Digi-Cut Animation, Psychedelics, and Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor". 22 March 2016.
  29. ^ "Anthology Film Archives : Film Screenings". anthologyfilmarchives.org. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  30. ^ "What are all those paint men digging? - ' Choreography for Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha)'".
  31. ^ "How Xerox Invented the Copier and Artists Pushed It To Its Limits - Atlas Obscura". 21 November 2016.
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  33. ^ "Bucksville". Rotten Tomatoes.
  34. ^ "Harrowdown hill". Radiohead.Fr. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  35. ^ "Ad Folks Take Tribeca". 3 July 2007.
  36. ^ "Videophiles | Earth Matter". 19 May 2010.
  37. ^ "Al Gore Opens Tribeca Film Festival". CBS News. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  38. ^ "Sundance Institute".
  39. ^ "2007-06-25". wweek.com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-12. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
  40. ^ Scott, A. O. (26 November 2008). "Freedom Fighter in Life Becomes Potent Symbol in Death". The New York Times.
  41. ^ "Post Magazine - Bent employs stop-motion for Gatorade".
  42. ^ "Five Questions: Bent Image Lab Director Rob Shaw". 18 June 2010.
  43. ^ "They Might be Giants : I'm Impressed". 9 June 2009.
  44. ^ "Watch Aesop Rock Get His Head Examined then Go to Kachka in "Rings" Video". 19 February 2016.
  45. ^ "Atlanta Film Festival Alumni 1976 to the Present".
  46. ^ "Sundance sets shorts". 9 December 2003.
  47. ^ "Joshua Cox". IMDb. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  48. ^ "Coca-Cola "Spirit of the Euro"". 20 March 2012.
  49. ^ "2007 List of Winners at Chicago International Television Awards". www.chicagofilmfestival.org. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
  50. ^ "FILA".
  51. ^ a b "Office Max".
  52. ^ a b "'Itty,' 'Billy' win SXSW jury awards". The Hollywood Reporter. 14 March 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  53. ^ "List of Credits for Paranoid Park". Archived from the original on 2009-01-21. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
  54. ^ Vankin, Deborah (4 July 2012). "Tilt shift's shrinking technique is a growing effect". Retrieved 9 June 2018 – via LA Times.
  55. ^ "Bent Image Lab Animates Hallmark Sequel". Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  56. ^ "Portland's Bent Image Lab to do second Hallmark Channel animated special". Oregonlive. 14 March 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  57. ^ https://awn.com/dev/animationworld/guiding-light-psa-raises-awareness-for-211-org-community-support-network/
  58. ^ "Planters TV Spot, 'Holidays: The Nuttiest Time of the Year'".
  59. ^ "Bent Image Lab in Good Shape". 17 September 2008.
  60. ^ "Ottawa Fest First Program Highlights: 'Isle of Dogs,' Bent Image Lab & Steven Subotnick". 25 July 2018.
  61. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2018-06-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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