Jose Acosta

NEW!! Reel 2009

JOSE ACOSTA_INK Reel 2009 from ACOSTA_INK on Vimeo.

"Daft Punk l Obama" Jan. 2009

Check out this AWESOME projects!!!

I helped with some post-production stuff.

Roger "Degrassi" Dec. 2008

2D Animation spot. Video Coming Soon...

Buddy System Studos "Doritos" Nov. 2008

Bags o'Fun - Doritos contest submission from Marvelous Things on Vimeo.

Buddy System Studios "Soulja Boy Tell'em" Nov. 2008

I helped out with the puppet making and composeting. Check out the making of!!

It was a super tight deadline but i got a chance to play with the puppets. ill post up what i animated soon.

Tony Willams l Kanye West "Dreaming Of Your Love" K.O.T.F Video Contest. Oct 2008

Tony Willams l Kanye West "Dreaming Of Your Love" K.O.T.F Video Contest WINNER!! from ACOSTA_INK on Vimeo.

Check out the making of at www.acostamusicvideo.blogspot.com

"Yahoo!" Oct. 2008

Yahoo! "Start Wearing Purple" campaign hitting an elevator near you! I worked on this new media campaign with Chad Feeback, Chris Hoffman, and Alex Yoon at CORE.

Video Coming Soon!

Spring Reel 2008

SEE IT IN HD

Jose Acosta. "REEL 2008." from ACOSTA_INK on Vimeo.

J O S E A C O S T A

Phone. 310.291.8524
Email. Acosta.Art@Gmail.com
Website. www.AcostaArt.Blogspot.com

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Experience
November 2008

The Buddy System, Los Angeles, CA

Assisted in puppet making, animating and composeting elements for stop motion music video.

October 2008

Core, Los Angeles, CA

Animating elements for Yahoo! Start Wearing Purple Campaign.

September 2008
Special Blend, Los Angeles, CA
Freelance, Animator

January-April 2008
Roger, Los Angeles, CA
Freelance, Animator
Using traditional 2d-animation, Stop-motion animation, Rotoscoping, After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator techniques.
1. Animated various elements for Nickelodeons: Kids Choice Awards staring Jack Black called JACK IS BACK.
2. Animated an end tag for a PSA about Darfur staring Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. Airing on ESPN.
3. Animated various elements for the intro to a new show called The Assistants on The N.

February 2008
Pipil Cinema Production, Los Angeles, CA
Freelance, Storyboard Artist
Worked with writer director Efrain A. Melendez to Pre-visualize a short film called CUSUSA.

September- October 2007
The Famous Group, Los Angeles, CA
Freelance
Worked on various sport teams projects, rotoscoping different athletes in motion.

August 2007
Roger, Los Angeles, CA
Freelance
Assisted in The Dancing with the Stars, NYC Time Square promo, hand tracked lends flares on the dancers dresses and rotoscoped dancers shadows. Second project, rotoscoped various elements that where composited into the intro to The National Geographic Channel show Inside.

July 2007
Pupil Cinema Production, Los Angeles, CA
Worked with the director to design and animate the title sequence for a UCLA student film.

Awards

October 2008

Director

Tony Williams l Kanye West "Dreaming of Your Love" music video contest winner.

Education

Fall 2003 – Spring 2007
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
BFA, Digital Media

Skills
Traditional ______________ Digital
Drawing _________________Photoshop
Painting _________________Illustrator
Sculpting ________________Maya
Stop-Motion Animation _____Final Cut Pro
2d Animation _____________After Effects

"ACOSTA_INK" July 2008.

I just started working on this short film. Everything is super messy and super fun!!

Original sketch done summer 07.

I found this armature while wondering the streets of Los Angeles downtown toy district.
Its Jan from Street Fighter and it has over 30 rotating parts!

After a quick scale drawing.

I made a rough scale sculpture.

Side view.

I really like my work space!

Test Animation. April 2008

This is my first attempt at animating using a white board.
I also added a test animation that combines Oragami and Starburts candy.

The next day I wanted to try it out again and this is what i came up with.

Roger. "Jack Is Back." January 2008

I got to work on this awesome project over at Roger.
Its for Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2008.
It was a lot of fun seeing Jack Black being combined with mixed media animation.

(A much better quality video can be seen at www.Roger.tv )

Some of the elements that I animated were the King Kong sign,
the signs that the crowds are holding, stars, diamonds, and some slime.
I also cut out a lot of photo elements that were composited.

I had to keep a copy this. It was on motionographer.

Roger. "Darfur." January 2008

This PSA stars Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers,
raising awareness of the on going struggle in Darfur.
At Roger I helped out by animating the endtag.

(Go to, www.AidStillRequired.org to view the complete PSA)

An interesting thing about working on this project was when I got an email about Aid Still Required from Hunter Payne.
I met Hunter in Spring 2007 when he came to speak to my English class,
Social Change Through Media, at Otis College of Art and Design.
The next day I was talking to Sarah the producer at Roger
and I told her about this email I got from Hunter Payne.
She told me Hunter Payne was actually the producer of the PSA I was working on. Awesome!!

Below:
Read the article that came out in Post Magazine.
also
Read the Email from Hunter Payne

Roger. "The Assistants." January 2008

This was a really fun project to work on at Roger.
Its for a new show, The Assistants on The N Channel.

Roger "The Assistants" from ACOSTA_INK on Vimeo.

I used a hand drawn, 2d animation technique in After Effects
to animate the staple removers, birds, clouds, lightning bolts, stars, and flames.
I also tried adding some stop-motion animation.
You could still see some frames of the animation in the beginning
when the piece of paper opens up from the middle and reveal the characters.

Short Film. "CUSUSA." February 2008

I worked with writer director Efrain A. Melendez to pre-visualize his short film "CUSUSA."
It was so great seeing the storyboards come to life.
Here are some of the storyboard that I sketched while I sat down with him.