Techniques
Bent Image Lab is known largely for its stop-motion animation projects. One notable example is "Blue Christmas" (a.k.a. "Santa and the States"), 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 and 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.
In 2007, Bent Image Lab again replicated the Rankin/Bass stop-motion animation style of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" in a television advertisement for Aflac, directed by Paul Harrod. Other Bent stop-motion productions include commercials for Lux, Officemax, Kelloggs Alltel, Tinactin, and an anti-smoking campaign geared towards children for the Washington Department of Social and Health Services.
The company is also known for its CG (computer graphics) animation, as seen in commercials for Coca-cola, Pert and Hewlett Packard.
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