Bent Image Lab

Bent Image Lab is a production company and an animation studio located in Portland OR specializing in commercials, 3d animation, stop-motion, music videos, and visual effects for feature films.

It has been more than a year now since I last worked at Bent Image Lab. When I was there, I had a wonderful time getting to know the studio and participated in several cool projects. Before knocking on Bent’s door, my knowledge in the field of CG animation was very limited, as a matter of fact, I don’t do CG at all. I walked in with the intention to put my design and illustration skills to good use, little did I know the result turned out quite perfectly.

Bent definitely has taught me how to advance my technical skills and speed more efficiently. Each morning I always feel like I’m in a rush to get something done, but no matter what the circumstances were, I had to deliver all the projects on time. Since Bent Image Lab is a production house, we pretty much produced all of the final touches from scratch. The amount of labor and sweat went into each project was inconceivably intensive. I worked long hours and was constantly on the edge of deadlines.

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Presidential JibJab

jibjab.com is probably one of my favorite sites to stop by for their comical Flash animations. It was actually founded in September 1999 by two brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis. Ever since they released the 2004 US presidential election video of George W. Bush and John Kerry, it became a huge hit to the online community and had featured on numerous of printed media and television shows.

It’s just great how they can take economic issues in our society and translates them into fun and entertaining animations. Watching their work is just unbelievably hard to not stop giggling. Check out some of these videos below and beware of what you about to see. “Time for Some Campaignin” is their up to date work. Obama and McCain scene will have you rolling on the floor.

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Orgesticulanismus

Are you into animation? If yes, then you are up for a treat. I don’t know where to start or how to explain it but this piece animation is just simply brilliant; not to mention the intensity that went behind the animation work, the use music, and how each movement expresses its own way to tell the story. All I have to say is just watch it in order to believe what this is about because it’s that amazing. Mathieu Labaye has done an excellent job in creating a tribute to his father if only I wish I could have such animation skills and knowledge like him. I have included the original English translation in this post, so read over it before viewing the animation although please be very patient, it may have a slow start at the beginning. Merci!

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Honda Eco-Awareness

Honda has recently released a commercial spot called “Do, Keep Doing, Do Some More” which is a short whimsical animation piece that raises the idea of eco-awareness solution. It is about how we could make a difference to the environment according to the choices we make. Some of us may not have a bond with commercials or advertisements since we used to seeing them every single day, but this one will definitely makes you remember the message, story-telling style, and its clever way of branding. I think when it comes down to any Honda’s stuff in general; they’ve always managed to implant an idea into our brain. Thanks to the brilliant creative team at Wieden+Kennedy, they came up with the idea and art direction. The rest of the production work and animation were produced by the team at Not To Scale.

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