Recent News
What’s Wrong With Virginia, the new film written/directed by Dustin Lance Black and with titles and Special FX by Bent Image Lab, was highlighted in an article in The New York Times about the tradition of personal and emotional films premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Dustin Black’s “…Virginia” stars Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly. It’s opening titles and Special FX/Composting was done right here at BENT Image Lab. Dustin Lance Black previously won an oscar for his writing on Gus Van Sant’s, “Milk.” Read the full post
Strategy Magazine has named five brands for the honor of “Brand of the Year.” Koodo’s “El Tabador” campaign, produced by Bent Image Lab in conjunction with Taxi 2, was named as one of these five winning brands. Watch the Campaign and Read the article Here.
Studio Daily recently interviewed Rob Shaw to ask about Bent’s new spots for the canadian cell phone company Koodo, what it’s like to work with a 4-inch tall wrestler, and what projects are in Rob Shaw’s future.
UPDATE (March 4, 2010): See Rob’s interview on the Channel Frederator Blog.
Channel Frederator is what happens when one of the guys who came up with Comedy Central creates an internet channel dedicated to edgy new animation. (It also goes by Cartoon Central.)
Frederator’s a regularly updated, no holds barred, indie animation nerd fest and we love it. The “channel” works half like a TV station, four shows with distinct subject ranges, and half like Youtube, with all site’s shows available for streaming and sharing.
This week Frederator Show features Rob Shaw’s “Machine”.
We recommend checking out the whole site. The aptly named — and not worksafe – Cartoon Hangover show is great for giggle…
The Portland Advertising Federation recognized two of our projects at this year’s Rosey Awards. We also took home a prize in the Advertising & Design Club of Canada’s annual awards.
Bent now has a presence on Vimeo. Excitting! Enjoy the comments and embedding features of the site.
BENT cleans up at The Bessies (Canada’s big advertising awards) with its shorts for the British Columbia Dairy Foundation.
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Tonight PNCA’s gallery opens a new exhibit to showcase the work of Gary Bialke, who passed away one year ago, and will feature many of his paintings, drawings, illustrations, and sculptures.
The whimsical paintings, drawings and sculptures seen in this show are a sampling of both the personal and commissioned work done in the past ten years. In the realm of commissioned work, Gary worked at several studios including Bent Image Lab, Will Vinton Studios, and others. You can read more about it here.
Gus Van Sant’s Milk has been nominated for 8 Academy Awards and Bent is proud to have contributed to its visual effects.
Bent’s co-founder Chel White was the VFX supervisor on a few of the film’s shots after working on a number of other Van Sant films including My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Paranoid Park.
The team at Bent Image Lab is very proud to finally bare its “Hidden Formula”, an international spot for Coca-Cola created in partnership with Santo (Argentina).
The spot is featured as the cover art of STASH 52, as well as in an extended article in this month’s Digital Arts magazine.
Directed by BENT co-founders David Daniels and Ray Di Carlo, “Hidden Formula” is being heralded for its ingenious marriage of stop motion animation and state of the art CG. The secret is out. See for yourself both on Bent’s site and here as a Quicktime.