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Bent Image Lab

March 06, 2023

BENT IMAGE LAB (or BENT) is a production company and animation studio specializing in story development, television, commercials, visual effects, music videos, short films, experimental techniques and tech development in augmented reality (AR). Located in Portland, Oregon, the company was founded in 2002 by partners David Daniels, Ray Di Carlo, and Chel White.[1]

The studio is known partly for its popular music videos for Thom Yorke, Aesop Rock, They Might Be Giants, Modest Mouse, At the Drive In and David Lynch, as well as commercials for Honda, Nike Inc., Coca-Cola, Starbucks, AT&T, Planters, Unilever, Kelloggs, Hershey’s and the American Indian College Fund. Beginning in 2010, the studio began the production and development of television projects, including half hour animated holiday specials for the Hallmark Channel[2] and animated segments for Portlandia.[3] The company is also known for its visual effects work in motion pictures and television, as seen in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, Restless and Milk, in Todd Haynes' I'm Not There, as well as NBC's 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] and a 2017-2019 campaign for Honda which utilizes a mix of live action, puppetry, CGI, and stop motion animation.

One early and notable example of a BENT stop motion project is Blue Christmas (a.k.a. Santa and the States) (season 30, episode 8),[11][12] a parody short for Robert Smigel's Saturday TV Funhouse on Saturday Night Live. The short, airing December 18, 2004, was directed by Bent co-founder Chel White, written by Robert Smigel and Michelle Saks Smigel with additional material by Rich Blomquist, Stephen Colbert, Scott Jacobson, and Matt O'Brien; voices by Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Erik Bergmann, and Robert Smigel.[13] The short is a parody of the 1964 holiday TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Bent Image Lab has replicated the same style and original characters in television advertisements for AT&T,[14] AFLAC, Bing, and in a series of 2014 holiday promos for CBS commemorating the 50th anniversary of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.[15][16] In 2016, the studio produced a ten-minute remake of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as a 4D attraction film for SimEx-Iwerks.[17] Another significant stop motion project is Jingle All the Way (TV special), a holiday special for Hallmark Channel.[18] Other notable BENT stop-motion productions include director Rob Shaw's Rats segments for the IFC show Portlandia,[3] and commercials for Legos, Gatorade, Lux, OfficeMax,[19] Kelloggs, Tinactin, and an anti-smoking campaign geared towards children for the Washington Department of Social and Health Services.

BENT's CGI work can be seen in the 2015 Annie Awards nominated Polariffic (director Rob Shaw),[20] as well as in their commercials for Honda, Nike, Coca-Cola, Koodo,[21][22] Nabisco,[23] 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 Strata-cut,[25] a unique form of clay animation in which internally packed "loaves" of clay are animated in thin slices, revealing the movement of the pre-sculpted images within. The technique of strata-cut was first used in Daniels' 1985 short film, Buzz Box,[26] then later in animated segments of the Pee Wee's Playhouse[27] series during the mid-90s, and in the music video for Big Time[28] by Peter Gabriel (1986). In September 2016, Daniels gave a demonstration of his unique Strata-cut technique at the Anthology Film Archives[29] in New York City. Before co-founding Bent Image Lab, David Daniels was a director at the Will Vinton Studios, where he helmed commercial projects for M&M's, Levi's, Fanta and broadcast promos Fox NFL.

Bent co-founder Chel White is an independent director who has been making films since the mid-1980s. His 1991 experimental short film, Choreography for Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha),[30] is widely considered the first film to make use of a technique in which people and objects are animated directly on the glass platen of a photocopy machine.[31] White's other films include the shorts Dirt, Magda and A Painful Glimpse Into My Writing Process (In Less Than 60 Seconds),[32] and the feature film Bucksville.[33] Among White's notable commissioned projects are his 2006 music video Harrowdown Hill for Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke,[34] which features the first use of the Smallgantics technique, as well as the 2007 short film, Wind, commissioned by Radiohead's creative director Dilly Gent and the climate change awareness group Live Earth.[35][36] Along with eight other Live Earth commissioned films, Wind made its world premiere in the opening night program of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival with keynote speaker Al Gore.[37] Since 1999, three of Chel White's short films have screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival[38] (Dirt, Choreography for Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha), and Passage). His other festival screenings include the Berlinale, SXSW, Ottawa Animation Festival, Annecy Animation Festival and the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

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] He has been Executive Producer for Bent Image Lab since its inception. Along with Bent Image Lab co-founder David Daniels, Di Carlo has spearheaded the studio's augmented reality (AR) division.

Bent director Rob Shaw is known for his innovative music videos and the ability to mix different forms of media such as stop motion animation, CG, live action and 2-dimensional animation. He has directed several animated television shorts for IFC's Portlandia,[3] television specials for Hallmark, and commercial campaigns for Gatorade,[41] Koodo Mobile,[21][42] and Kellogg's, as well as music videos for They Might Be Giants,[43] 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 MTV, the Bacon Wars segment on Netflix's Disjointed series, and commercials for Old Navy, Tums, MasterCard, Arrowhead and 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] the studio where Carlos Lascano is represented for commercials in North America. One of Lascano's characteristic techniques makes use of real actors' eyes, captured in live action, then digitally composited onto animated characters, as seen his short films Shadow of Blue and A Short Love Story in Stop Motion,[49] as well as several of his commercials.

Bent Image Lab and/or its directors have won awards from the Clio Awards, The One Club, D&AD, Promax BDA awards, Cannes Lions, Daytime Emmy Awards, and several awards from the Chicago International Television Awards.[50] Two commercials directed by Chel White (OfficeMax Santa's Helper, and Fila Mash) were included in the program The Art and Technique of the American Television Commercial The AICP Show at MoMA[51][52] and are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Film festival awards include 'Best Television Program for Adults' from the 2012 Ottawa International Animation Festival for Bent Image Lab director Rob Shaw's Rats (stop-motion segments for the IFC show Portlandia), Best Short Film from the 1998 Stockholm International Film Festival for Chel White's Dirt, Best Animated Short for Rob Shaw's The Machine from the 2010 Atlanta Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short for White's Magda from the 2004 Florida Film Festival. Chel White's music video Harrowdown Hill for Radiohead's lead singer Thom Yorke won Best Music Video in the 2007 SXSW.[53]

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 Gus Van Sant's films Paranoid Park[54] (2007), To Each His Own Cinema (segment: First Kiss)" (2007), Restless, and the Academy Award winning Milk (2008), as well as title effects and animation on director Todd Haynes' film, I'm Not There (2007). Chel White acted as Visual Effects Supervisor on all four Van Sant films. For its first two seasons, Bent produced visual effects for NBC's Grimm (TV Series).[4] In 2006, along with his team and co-founders at Bent Image Lab, Chel White pioneered the Smallgantics technique[55] that was used for the first time in the music video he directed for Thom Yorke's song Harrowdown Hill. An incarnation of Smallgantics was also used in the Bent production of Hidden Formula, a commercial for Coca-Cola, directed by David Daniels and Ray Di Carlo).

Augmented reality

In 2014, Bent Image Lab founded YOUar, an internal group of engineers and developers dedicated to providing software for the production and distribution of AR applications, spatial maps and the AR Cloud.[56] Their AR offerings include a convergent computer vision library,[57] a relocalization service for globally positioning mobile devices, and a universal spatial browser for AR content.[58] In spring 2018, YOUar was a founding member of the Open AR Cloud, a standards group dedicated to promoting an open and interoperable AR ecosystem. YOUar has 2 patents awarded regarding AR technology; Accurate Positioning of Augmented Reality Content,[59] and Planet-Scale Positioning of Augmented Reality Content,[60] with a further 6 applications pending.

Creative work

Television, films, and online programs

Music video

  • At The Drive In Hostage Stamps and Call Broken Arrow (2017) (directed by Rob Shaw)
  • Aesop Rock Rings and Shrunk (2016) (directed by Rob Shaw)
  • Starfucker Beach Monster (2013) and Bury Us Alive (2012) (directed by Joshua Cox)
  • The Uncluded Organs and The Aquarium (2013) (directed by Rob Shaw)
  • Chrysta Bell and David Lynch – Bird of Flames (2012) (directed by Chel White)
  • LCD Soundsystem Drunk Girls: Holy Ghost Remix (2010) (directed by Daniel Garcia)
  • They Might Be Giants Computer Assisted Design (2010) (directed by Rob Shaw)
  • Ash Space Shot (2010) (directed by Daniel Garcia)
  • Modest Mouse The Whale Song (2009) (directed by Nando Costa)
  • Ash True Love 1980 (2009) (directed by Daniel Garcia)
  • They Might Be Giants I'm Impressed (2007) (directed by Rob Shaw)
  • Thom Yorke Harrowdown Hill. (2006) (directed by Chel White)
  • The Apparitions God Monkey Robot (2006) (directed by Rob Shaw)

Commercials

  • Ad Council/ 211.org - Guiding Light[63] (2021)
  • Planters - Nuttiest Time of the Year (directed by Chel White) (2020)[64]
  • Bogs Footwear - Test Machine (directed by Solomon Burbridge and Joshua Cox) (2019)
  • American Lung Association - Saved By The Scan (directed by Adam Floeck) (2019)
  • Dairy Farmers of Canada - Merry Christmas (directed by Rob Shaw) (2017)
  • Yellow Pages - Dine campaign (directed by Rob Shaw) (2017)
  • Honda - Utility (directed by Joshua Cox) (2017)
  • American Indian College Fund - One Percent (directed by Chel White) (2015)
  • Oatmeal Crisp - One Upmanship (directed by Solomon Burbridge) (2015)
  • AT&T - Rudolph campaign (directed by Chel White) (2015)
  • Gatorade - Recover campaign (directed by Rob Shaw) (2015)
  • Nike - Always Advance (directed by Chel White and Joshua Cox) (2014)
  • Koodo - El Tabador campaign (over 30 spots directed by Rob Shaw, with a few co-directed with Solomon Burbridge) (2009-2014)
  • Arrowhead - Recycling Is a Beautiful Thing (directed by Solomon Burbridge) (2013)
  • Starbucks - Summer campaign (directed by Chel White and Marcus Swanson) (2013)
  • Bing - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (directed by Ken Lidster) (2011 Christmas campaign)
  • Coca-Cola - Spirit of the Euro (directed by Carlos Lascano) (2011)
  • Coca-Cola - Hidden Formula (directed by David Daniels and Ray Di Carlo) (2008)
  • BC Dairy Foundation - Must Drink More Milk campaign[65] (web shorts, 2008) (various directors)
  • Tinactin - Monster Foot (2007–2008) (directed by David Daniels)
  • Lux - Provocateur (2006) (directed by Chel White and Ray Di Carlo)
  • Washington State Dept. of Health - Park and Rec Room (2005) (directed by Chel White)
  • Tractor Supply Company - The Stuff You Need Out Here campaign (2006) (directed by Paul Harrod)
  • OfficeMax - Santa's Helper (2005) (directed by Chel White)
  • Reese's Pieces - Center of Attention (2003) (directed by David Daniels and Chel White)

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.
  • "Kicking Off an Animated Holiday Season". The New York Times.
  • "Stratacut". official website.

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studio specializing in story development television commercials visual effects music videos short films experimental techniques and tech development in augmented reality AR Located in Portland Oregon the company was founded in 2002 by partners David Daniels Ray Di Carlo and Chel White 1 The studio is known partly for its popular music videos for Thom Yorke Aesop Rock They Might Be Giants Modest Mouse At the Drive In and David Lynch as well as commercials for Honda Nike Inc Coca Cola Starbucks AT amp T Planters Unilever Kelloggs Hershey s and the American Indian College Fund Beginning in 2010 the studio began the production and development of television projects including half hour animated holiday specials for the Hallmark Channel 2 and animated segments for Portlandia 3 The company is also known for its visual effects work in motion pictures and television as seen in Gus Van Sant s Paranoid Park Restless and Milk in Todd Haynes I m Not There as well as NBC s 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 Contents 1 Work and techniques 2 Founders and directors 3 Visual effects 4 Augmented reality 5 Creative work 5 1 Television films and online programs 5 2 Music video 5 3 Commercials 6 Notable awards and screenings 7 External links 8 ReferencesWork and techniques EditBent 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 and a 2017 2019 campaign for Honda which utilizes a mix of live action puppetry CGI and stop motion animation One early and notable example of a BENT stop motion project is Blue Christmas a k a Santa and the States season 30 episode 8 11 12 a parody short for Robert Smigel s Saturday TV Funhouse on Saturday Night Live The short airing December 18 2004 was directed by Bent co founder Chel White written by Robert Smigel and Michelle Saks Smigel with additional material by Rich Blomquist Stephen Colbert Scott Jacobson and Matt O Brien voices by Maya Rudolph Amy Poehler Erik Bergmann and Robert Smigel 13 The short is a parody of the 1964 holiday TV special Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Bent Image Lab has replicated the same style and original characters in television advertisements for AT amp T 14 AFLAC Bing and in a series of 2014 holiday promos for CBS commemorating the 50th anniversary of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 15 16 In 2016 the studio produced a ten minute remake of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as a 4D attraction film for SimEx Iwerks 17 Another significant stop motion project is Jingle All the Way TV special a holiday special for Hallmark Channel 18 Other notable BENT stop motion productions include director Rob Shaw s Rats segments for the IFC show Portlandia 3 and commercials for Legos Gatorade Lux OfficeMax 19 Kelloggs Tinactin and an anti smoking campaign geared towards children for the Washington Department of Social and Health Services BENT s CGI work can be seen in the 2015 Annie Awards nominated Polariffic director Rob Shaw 20 as well as in their commercials for Honda Nike Coca Cola Koodo 21 22 Nabisco 23 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 EditBent Image Lab co founder and director David Daniels invented an animation technique he termed Strata cut 25 a unique form of clay animation in which internally packed loaves of clay are animated in thin slices revealing the movement of the pre sculpted images within The technique of strata cut was first used in Daniels 1985 short film Buzz Box 26 then later in animated segments of the Pee Wee s Playhouse 27 series during the mid 90s and in the music video for Big Time 28 by Peter Gabriel 1986 In September 2016 Daniels gave a demonstration of his unique Strata cut technique at the Anthology Film Archives 29 in New York City Before co founding Bent Image Lab David Daniels was a director at the Will Vinton Studios where he helmed commercial projects for M amp M s Levi s Fanta and broadcast promos Fox NFL Bent co founder Chel White is an independent director who has been making films since the mid 1980s His 1991 experimental short film Choreography for Copy Machine Photocopy Cha Cha 30 is widely considered the first film to make use of a technique in which people and objects are animated directly on the glass platen of a photocopy machine 31 White s other films include the shorts Dirt Magda and A Painful Glimpse Into My Writing Process In Less Than 60 Seconds 32 and the feature film Bucksville 33 Among White s notable commissioned projects are his 2006 music video Harrowdown Hill for Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke 34 which features the first use of the Smallgantics technique as well as the 2007 short film Wind commissioned by Radiohead s creative director Dilly Gent and the climate change awareness group Live Earth 35 36 Along with eight other Live Earth commissioned films Wind made its world premiere in the opening night program of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival with keynote speaker Al Gore 37 Since 1999 three of Chel White s short films have screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival 38 Dirt Choreography for Copy Machine Photocopy Cha Cha and Passage His other festival screenings include the Berlinale SXSW Ottawa Animation Festival Annecy Animation Festival and the Hong Kong International Film Festival 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 He has been Executive Producer for Bent Image Lab since its inception Along with Bent Image Lab co founder David Daniels Di Carlo has spearheaded the studio s augmented reality AR division Bent director Rob Shaw is known for his innovative music videos and the ability to mix different forms of media such as stop motion animation CG live action and 2 dimensional animation He has directed several animated television shorts for IFC s Portlandia 3 television specials for Hallmark and commercial campaigns for Gatorade 41 Koodo Mobile 21 42 and Kellogg s as well as music videos for They Might Be Giants 43 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 MTV the Bacon Wars segment on Netflix s Disjointed series and commercials for Old Navy Tums MasterCard Arrowhead and 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 the studio where Carlos Lascano is represented for commercials in North America One of Lascano s characteristic techniques makes use of real actors eyes captured in live action then digitally composited onto animated characters as seen his short films Shadow of Blue and A Short Love Story in Stop Motion 49 as well as several of his commercials Bent Image Lab and or its directors have won awards from the Clio Awards The One Club D amp AD Promax BDA awards Cannes Lions Daytime Emmy Awards and several awards from the Chicago International Television Awards 50 Two commercials directed by Chel White OfficeMax Santa s Helper and Fila Mash were included in the program The Art and Technique of the American Television Commercial The AICP Show at MoMA 51 52 and are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York Film festival awards include Best Television Program for Adults from the 2012 Ottawa International Animation Festival for Bent Image Lab director Rob Shaw s Rats stop motion segments for the IFC show Portlandia Best Short Film from the 1998 Stockholm International Film Festival for Chel White s Dirt Best Animated Short for Rob Shaw s The Machine from the 2010 Atlanta Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short for White s Magda from the 2004 Florida Film Festival Chel White s music video Harrowdown Hill for Radiohead s lead singer Thom Yorke won Best Music Video in the 2007 SXSW 53 Visual effects EditSince 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 Gus Van Sant s films Paranoid Park 54 2007 To Each His Own Cinema segment First Kiss 2007 Restless and the Academy Award winning Milk 2008 as well as title effects and animation on director Todd Haynes film I m Not There 2007 Chel White acted as Visual Effects Supervisor on all four Van Sant films For its first two seasons Bent produced visual effects for NBC s Grimm TV Series 4 In 2006 along with his team and co founders at Bent Image Lab Chel White pioneered the Smallgantics technique 55 that was used for the first time in the music video he directed for Thom Yorke s song Harrowdown Hill An incarnation of Smallgantics was also used in the Bent production of Hidden Formula a commercial for Coca Cola directed by David Daniels and Ray Di Carlo Augmented reality EditIn 2014 Bent Image Lab founded YOUar an internal group of engineers and developers dedicated to providing software for the production and distribution of AR applications spatial maps and the AR Cloud 56 Their AR offerings include a convergent computer vision library 57 a relocalization service for globally positioning mobile devices and a universal spatial browser for AR content 58 In spring 2018 YOUar was a founding member of the Open AR Cloud a standards group dedicated to promoting an open and interoperable AR ecosystem YOUar has 2 patents awarded regarding AR technology Accurate Positioning of Augmented Reality Content 59 and Planet Scale Positioning of Augmented Reality Content 60 with a further 6 applications pending Creative work EditTelevision films and online programs Edit Sesame Street Witch Sisters 2018 Netflix Disjointed Bacon Wars fridge segment 2017 directed by Solomon Burbridge IFC Portlandia Rats and other animated segments 2011 2017 directed by Rob Shaw Hallmark Channel Polariffic 2014 directed by Rob Shaw Hallmark Channel Jingle amp Bell s Christmas Star 61 62 2012 directed by Chel White Hallmark Channel Hoops Yoyo s Haunted Halloween 2012 directed by Rob Shaw Hallmark Channel Jingle All the Way TV special 2011 directed by Chel White Saturday Night Live Saturday TV Funhouse Blue Christmas a k a Santa and the States 2004 directed by Chel White Music video Edit At The Drive In Hostage Stamps and Call Broken Arrow 2017 directed by Rob Shaw Aesop Rock Rings and Shrunk 2016 directed by Rob Shaw Starfucker Beach Monster 2013 and Bury Us Alive 2012 directed by Joshua Cox The Uncluded Organs and The Aquarium 2013 directed by Rob Shaw Chrysta Bell and David Lynch Bird of Flames 2012 directed by Chel White LCD Soundsystem Drunk Girls Holy Ghost Remix 2010 directed by Daniel Garcia They Might Be Giants Computer Assisted Design 2010 directed by Rob Shaw Ash Space Shot 2010 directed by Daniel Garcia Modest Mouse The Whale Song 2009 directed by Nando Costa Ash True Love 1980 2009 directed by Daniel Garcia They Might Be Giants I m Impressed 2007 directed by Rob Shaw Thom Yorke Harrowdown Hill 2006 directed by Chel White The Apparitions God Monkey Robot 2006 directed by Rob Shaw Commercials Edit Ad Council 211 org Guiding Light 63 2021 Planters Nuttiest Time of the Year directed by Chel White 2020 64 Bogs Footwear Test Machine directed by Solomon Burbridge and Joshua Cox 2019 American Lung Association Saved By The Scan directed by Adam Floeck 2019 Dairy Farmers of Canada Merry Christmas directed by Rob Shaw 2017 Yellow Pages Dine campaign directed by Rob Shaw 2017 Honda Utility directed by Joshua Cox 2017 American Indian College Fund One Percent directed by Chel White 2015 Oatmeal Crisp One Upmanship directed by Solomon Burbridge 2015 AT amp T Rudolph campaign directed by Chel White 2015 Gatorade Recover campaign directed by Rob Shaw 2015 Nike Always Advance directed by Chel White and Joshua Cox 2014 Koodo El Tabador campaign over 30 spots directed by Rob Shaw with a few co directed with Solomon Burbridge 2009 2014 Arrowhead Recycling Is a Beautiful Thing directed by Solomon Burbridge 2013 Starbucks Summer campaign directed by Chel White and Marcus Swanson 2013 Bing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer directed by Ken Lidster 2011 Christmas campaign Coca Cola Spirit of the Euro directed by Carlos Lascano 2011 Coca Cola Hidden Formula directed by David Daniels and Ray Di Carlo 2008 BC Dairy Foundation Must Drink More Milk campaign 65 web shorts 2008 various directors Tinactin Monster Foot 2007 2008 directed by David Daniels Lux Provocateur 2006 directed by Chel White and Ray Di Carlo Washington State Dept of Health Park and Rec Room 2005 directed by Chel White Tractor Supply Company The Stuff You Need Out Here campaign 2006 directed by Paul Harrod OfficeMax Santa s Helper 2005 directed by Chel White Reese s Pieces Center of Attention 2003 directed by David Daniels and Chel White Notable awards and screenings Edit2018 A Bent Image Lab retrospective and masterclass presented by Chel White and Rob Shaw at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 66 citation needed 2015 Promax BDA awards Art Direction and Design Program Bumper Cartoon Network Over the Garden Wall 67 directed by Solomon Burbridge 2014 Ottawa Animation Festival Best Cartoon for Adults IFC s Portlandia Rats segment directed by Rob Shaw 2007 SXSW Best Music Video Thom Yorke Harrowdown Hill 53 directed by Chel White 2006 The AICP Show at MoMA Office Max Santa s Helper included in the program The Art and Technique of the American Television Commercial 52 and in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York Directed by Chel White 2005 Florida Film Festival Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short Magda 68 directed by Chel White 2004 Clio Awards Bronze Reese s Pieces Center of Attention directed by David Daniels and Chel WhiteExternal links EditOfficial website Three Artists Get Bent Animation World Network Portlandia Gets Bent with Zero Rats Animation Magazine 8 March 2012 Kicking Off an Animated Holiday Season The New York Times Stratacut official website References Edit Baisley Sarah 8 May 2003 Three Artists Get Bent Animation World Network Retrieved 9 June 2018 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 a b c Milligan Mercedes 8 March 2012 Portlandia Gets Bent with Zero Rats Animation Magazine Retrieved 9 June 2018 a b Bent Image Lab Creates VFX for NBC s Grimm youAR Unveils Secret Augmented Reality Tech Demo Retrieved 9 June 2018 Post Magazine Bent Image Lab reveals new AR technology www postmagazine com Retrieved 9 June 2018 Animating Classic Characters HOT HOUSE Bent Image Lab Studio Daily 1 October 2006 Retrieved 9 June 2018 Modest Mouse Gets Bent 12 October 2009 Retrieved 9 June 2018 Making of Rice Krispies Pop to Life 23 February 2016 Saturday Night Live Robert De Niro Destiny s Child TV Episode 2004 Retrieved 9 June 2018 via www imdb com Bent Image Makes Rudolph Rock for Saturday Night Live Retrieved 9 June 2018 Robert De Niro Destiny s Child 18 December 2004 Retrieved 9 June 2018 via www imdb com Holiday Spots It s That Time of Year Computer Graphics World Elliott Stuart 1 December 2014 CBS Hopes This Holiday Promotion Glows The New York Times Retrieved 9 June 2018 Fisher Cydney 6 December 2014 BENT does stop motion promos for 50th Anniversary of Rudolph Retrieved 9 June 2018 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 4 D Hale Mike 23 November 2011 Jingle All the Way and Other Holiday Cartoons Review The New York Times Retrieved 9 June 2018 Q amp A Director Chel White December 2004 49th Annual Annie Awards a b BENT Creates Lucha Libre Legend with TAXI 2 Computer Graphics World www cgw com Retrieved 9 June 2018 https www creativeplanetnetwork com the wire bent creates lucha libre legend taxi 2 585084 dead link Bent Image Lab Animates Love Story for Chips Ahoy Retrieved 9 June 2018 The Water Man movie review amp film summary 2021 Roger Ebert http stratacut com What are all those paint men digging Buzz Box David Daniels Digi Cut Animation Psychedelics and Hot Chip s Alexis Taylor Anthology Film Archives Film Screenings anthologyfilmarchives org Retrieved 9 June 2018 What are all those paint men digging Choreography for Copy Machine Photocopy Cha Cha How Xerox Invented the Copier and Artists Pushed It To Its Limits Atlas Obscura 21 November 2016 Chel White IMDb Retrieved 9 June 2018 Bucksville Rotten Tomatoes Harrowdown hill Radiohead Fr Retrieved 9 June 2018 Ad Folks Take Tribeca 3 July 2007 Videophiles Earth Matter 19 May 2010 Al Gore Opens Tribeca Film Festival CBS News Retrieved 9 June 2018 Sundance Institute 2007 06 25 wweek com Archived from the original on 2009 08 12 Retrieved 2009 03 17 Scott A O 26 November 2008 Freedom Fighter in Life Becomes Potent Symbol in Death The New York Times Post Magazine Bent employs stop motion for Gatorade Five Questions Bent Image Lab Director Rob Shaw 18 June 2010 They Might be Giants I m Impressed 9 June 2009 Watch Aesop Rock Get His Head Examined then Go to Kachka in Rings Video Atlanta Film Festival Alumni 1976 to the Present Sundance sets shorts 9 December 2003 Joshua Cox IMDb Retrieved 9 June 2018 Coca Cola Spirit of the Euro 20 March 2012 A Short Love Story in Stop Motion 2007 List of Winners at Chicago International Television Awards www chicagofilmfestival org Retrieved 2009 03 17 FILA a b Office Max a b Itty Billy win SXSW jury awards The Hollywood Reporter 14 March 2007 Retrieved 9 June 2018 List of Credits for Paranoid Park Archived from the original on 2009 01 21 Retrieved 2009 03 17 Vankin Deborah 4 July 2012 Tilt shift s shrinking technique is a growing effect Retrieved 9 June 2018 via LA Times YouAR Out of Stealth with AR Cloud Breakthrough Forbes Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine YOUAR Convergent Computer Vision UberCV Demo YouTube Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine YOUAR Overview YouTube Accurate positioning of augmented reality content Planet scale positioning of augmented reality content Bent Image Lab Animates Hallmark Sequel Retrieved 9 June 2018 Portland s Bent Image Lab to do second Hallmark Channel animated special Oregonlive 14 March 2012 Retrieved 9 June 2018 https awn com dev animationworld guiding light psa raises awareness for 211 org community support network https www ispot tv ad tK6A planters holidays the nuttiest time of the year Bent Image Lab in Good Shape 17 September 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2015 04 30 Retrieved 2018 06 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