Ray Di Carlo is an American producer, director, and co-founder (along with Chel White

Chel White

Chel White is an American film director, commercial and music video director, animator, actor, screenwriter, and visual effects supervisor on feature films....

 and David Daniels

David Daniels (filmmaker)

David Daniels is an American commercial director, filmmaker, and co-founder of the Portland, Oregon based animation studio Bent Image Lab....

) of the Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

 based animation studio Bent Image Lab

Bent Image Lab

BENT IMAGE LAB is a production company and animation studio specializing in commercials, music videos, short films, and visual effects for feature films. Located in Portland, Oregon the company was founded in 2002 by partners David Daniels, Ray Di Carlo, and Chel White...

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History

Since 2002, Di Carlo has acted as Executive Producer at Bent Image Lab

Bent Image Lab

BENT IMAGE LAB is a production company and animation studio specializing in commercials, music videos, short films, and visual effects for feature films. Located in Portland, Oregon the company was founded in 2002 by partners David Daniels, Ray Di Carlo, and Chel White...

. The studio's advertising agency clients including DDB Worldwide

DDB Worldwide

DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc., known internationally as DDB, is a worldwide marketing communications network. It is owned by Omnicom Group Inc, one of the world's largest advertising holding companies...

(Chicago, NY, LA, and Tribal British Columbia), FCB, Leo Burnett Worldwide

Leo Burnett Worldwide

Leo Burnett Worldwide is an American advertising company, created in 1935 by Leo Burnett. The company was opened in Chicago in 1935. In 1950 the company started its two first major advertising projects, for Kellogg’s and P&G....

, Santo (Bueno Aires/London), Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Sedgwick Rd., Campbell Ewald, Pedone, Euro RSCG

Euro RSCG

Euro RSCG Worldwide is one of the largest integrated marketing communications agencies in the world, made up of 233 offices located in 75 countries throughout Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Euro RSCG provides advertising, marketing services, corporate...

, The Buntin Group, Borders Perrin and Norrander, and Ogilvy & Mather

Ogilvy & Mather

Ogilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency based in Manhattan and owned by the WPP Group. The company operates 497 offices in 125 countries with approximately 16,000 employees.-History:...

, as well as networks clients NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

, TBS

TBS (TV channel)

TBS , stylized in the logo as tbs, is an American cable television channel owned by Time Warner that shows a variety of programming, with a focus on comedy. TBS was originally known as WTCG, a UHF terrestrial television station that broadcast from Atlanta, Georgia, during the late 1970s...

, Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

, The Learning Channel, and PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

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Di Carlo got his start in special effects, working on “The Abyss

The Abyss

The Abyss is a 1989 science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. The original musical score was composed by Alan Silvestri...

,” directed by James Cameron

James Cameron

James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, environmentalist and inventor...

. In 1995 Di Carlo directed "Telepresence," a science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 feature film produced in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

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In 2008, Ray Di Carlo and Bent cofounder David Daniels co-directed "Hidden Formula," a Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...

 television commercial. In 2006, Di Carlo and Bent co-founder Chel White

Chel White

Chel White is an American film director, commercial and music video director, animator, actor, screenwriter, and visual effects supervisor on feature films....

 co-directed "Provocateur," a Lux soap ad. Both television commercials were created for the advertising agency Santo

Santo

Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta , more widely known as El Santo , was a Mexican Luchador enmascarado , film actor, and folk icon....

, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.