Bent Image Lab

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BENT IMAGE LAB (or BENT) is a production company and animation studio specializing in story development, television, commercials, visual effects, music videos, short films, experimental techniques and tech development in augmented reality (AR). Located in Portland, Oregon, the company was founded in 2002 by partners David Daniels, Ray Di Carlo, and Chel White.^[1]

Beginning in 2010, the studio began the production and development of television projects, including half hour animated holiday specials for the Hallmark Channel^[2] and animated segments for Portlandia.^[3] The company is also known for its visual effects work in motion pictures and television, as seen in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, Restless and Milk, in Todd Haynes' I'm Not There, as well as NBC's Grimm (TV Series).^[4] Since 2014, the studio has been developing augmented reality (AR) technology^[5][6] and plans to launch their convergent computer vision library in fall of 2019.