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BENT IMAGE LAB (or Bent) is a production company and animation studio specializing in commercials, music videos, short films, and visual effects for feature films. Located in Portland, Oregon, with additional production in Spain, the company was founded in 2002 by partners David Daniels, Ray Di Carlo, and Chel White.〔http://www.awn.com/news/three-artists-get-bent〕 Tsui Ling Toomer Martin joined the company in 2006 as Head of Production, and left the company in January 2015. In May of 2015, Derrick Huang (formerly at Nathan Love) came on as Executive Producer.〔http://www.shootonline.com/node/61926〕 ==Work== Bent Image Lab is known largely for its stop motion animation and CGI/computer animation projects.〔http://sourceecreative.com/news-or-feature-story.php?type=sf&ID=51&a=2〕 One notable example of a BENT stop motion project is "Blue Christmas" (a.k.a. "Santa and the States")(season 30, episode 8),〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694905/fullcredits#directors〕〔http://www.awn.com/news/bent-image-makes-rudolph-rock-saturday-night-live〕 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 and director 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.〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694905/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_11〕 The short is a parody of the 1964 holiday TV special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." produced by the Rankin/Bass productions company. An earlier SNL short also directed by White, titled "The Narrator That Ruined Christmas," (season 27) aired December 15, 2001, and features the voices of SNL cast members Chris Parnell, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Doug Dale, Erik Bergmann, and Robert Smigel.〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694826/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_11〕 Bent Image Lab has since replicated the Rankin/Bass stop-motion animation style of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" in a television advertisement for Aflac, directed by Paul Harrod, and in a series of 2014 holiday promos for CBS commemorating the 50th anniversary of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."〔http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/business/media/cbs-hopes-this-holiday-promotion-glows.html?_r=0〕 Other notable BENT stop-motion productions include director Rob Shaw's "Rats" segments for the IFC show “Portlandia”,〔http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/portlandia-gets-bent-with-zero-rats〕 with Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, as well as commercials for Gatorade, Lux, OfficeMax, Kelloggs, Tinactin, and an anti-smoking campaign geared towards children for the Washington Department of Social and Health Services. BENT's computer animation work can be seen in the 2015 Annie Awards〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=42nd Annual Annie Award Nominees )〕 nominated Polariffic, directed by Rob Shaw, as well as in their commercials for Nike, Coca-Cola, Koodo,〔http://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/Web-Exclusives/2010/BENT-Creates-Lucha-Libre-Legend-with-TAXI-2.aspx〕 and Chips Ahoy.〔http://www.awn.com/news/bent-image-lab-animates-love-story-chips-ahoy〕 The company is also known for its visual effects work in motion pictures and television, as seen in four films by Gus Van Sant and NBC's Grimm (TV Series),〔http://www.awn.com/news/bent-image-lab-creates-vfx-nbc-s-grimm〕 and its animated children's television specials for Hallmark Channel, including Jingle All the Way (TV special), Polariffic and “Hoops&Yoyo’s Haunted Halloween." In 2011, Bent created interactive components for the World of Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bent Image Lab」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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