Josh Cortopassi - VFX Artist

Welcome! I am a 3D Artist working on television & film projects in the L.A. area.
Experience: Maya, Nuke, Shake, Photoshop, ZBrush, After Effects, Boujou, Stitcher, Illustrator and more.
Skills include: Modeling, animation, rigging & technical setup, particle effects, texturing & shaders, compositing.

06.12.09

VFX Supervisor, Lead 3D/Animation/Compositor on the music video for N.A.S.A.'s song "A Volta". It's generating a lot of buzz and is being described as "an 8-bit narco nightmare".

The video made its premiere on Feb 25th at the Flux Screening Series at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and is scheduled to be shown June 19th at the Toronto Film Festival and the onedotzero world tour festival starting in Sept. It will also be included in Stash DVD Magazine Issue #58, Motionographer, and a future issue of IdN.

If you're offended by absolutely senseless NSFW cartoon sex, drugs, vio-lence and debauchery, then look no further.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3D-SCHiVzc

12.08.08

Finished some CG work on Metallica's latest music video "All Nightmare Long". The video, which can be viewed online here, got a nod from Motionographer.

09.07.08

Updated online reel

07.20.08

Currently freelancing at Logan.

Projects: Sony's "Resistance 2", Apple iPod/iTunes, Konami's "Metal Gear Solid 4", Kohler, VTech, Heineken, Cherry 7up, Sci-Fi Channel and more.

Our trailer for Sony's "Resistance 2", entitled "Twisted History", can be viewed here. The trailer is featured in Stash DVD Magazine Issue #49 and has also gotten a great review from Motionographer.

Our "Metal Gear Solid 4" work is featured in Stash DVD Magazine Issue #47, while the Kohler spot is featured in Stash DVD Magazine Issue #45

Also worked at Elicit FX on a couple of effects shots for Panic At The Disco's "That Green Gentleman" video.

10.28.07

Freelanced at Mac Guff, on an Acura commercial.

The spot received a nice write-up from Motionographer.

09.01.07

Freelanced at Stardust.

Projects: Sears, McDonald's/Cartoon Network, Campbell's Soup and NYSE.

07.09.07

Spent the last 6 months freelancing at Motion Theory.

Projects: Gatorade, Sony, Sears, T.G.I. Friday's and Comcast.

Gatorade "What's Inside Crosby" is featured in Stash DVD Magazine Issue #32.

12.04.06

Finished at Halon doing pre-visualization for post-production on the feature film Evan Almighty.

It is an honor that one of my personal FX projects has been featured on the new xRez site:

http://www.xrez.com/services/3d/xRez_3d.html

xRez was formed by Eric Hanson, Greg Downing and Ron Shirley, and is paving new ground in the usage of large-scale panoramic images. The site is very engaging and full of stunning work!

Eric (VFX artist on "The Fifth Element", "Cast Away", "The Day After Tomorrow") also showed my project at a Digital Sets and Environments seminar he lectured at in Oslo, Norway. What a guy!!

03.24.06

Just wrapped up a VFX shot for a music DVD by legendary thrash metal band Vio-lence, soon to be released by Megaforce Records Worldwide.

Also worked on an animated short showcased at the 4th Annual VES Awards show this year. The project was a tribute to Pixar's John Lasseter, and was shown alongside other shorts done by Pixar, ILM, and Sony Imageworks. Not only was it an honor to work on the project, but word has it Mr. Lasseter requested a copy!