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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.
Looks like the Verizon spot we did with McCann-Erickson tapped into some strong feelings in the social media world. “Misfits,” a :30 spot that sees a smart phone end up on the Island of Misfit Toys because 3G issues, quietly went up on YouTube last week.
347,000 views and 370 comments later, it turns out Rudolph resonates as strongly as ever with audiences, and people REALLY care about their cell phone service. Check out what everyone’s saying on YouTube and Twitter.
Bent now has a presence on Vimeo. Excitting! Enjoy the comments and embedding features of the site.
Bent’s director and creative partner Nando Costa is amongst the 4 artists commissioned by Adobe to create a short film using the new Adobe CS4 suites. Nando represented the newly released Master Collection with an animated piece that in ways works as a symbol for his creative process. The site adobeartists.com also shows an interview with Costa while he was still at Nervo, before joining forces with Bent.
BENT cleans up at The Bessies (Canada’s big advertising awards) with its shorts for the British Columbia Dairy Foundation.
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The Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament 2009 lands in Portland this Saturday. The Portland Art Museum will host the competitions in 2D, 3D, and Motion Graphics and Bent’s director Nando Costa will be one of the judges for the animation portion. For more information visit Cut & Paste.
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.