Jonathan Costa Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

Design Technologist and Engineer. Responsibilities include digital banner ad development as well as full-stack web development for internal tool using AWS.

King Of Prussia, Pa

(Formally PoinRoll) Creative Developer. Responsibilities include digital ad development in HTML5 using JavaScript and CSS3.

Clinton, Nj

A Customer Service Manager is in change of running the front end from cashier management to customer service supervision through out the store. Responsibilities include opening and closing store registers.

Lead animator for an animated piece for the San Fransisco Museum of Modern art. SFMOMA commissioned a series of animated shorts the highlight artists in an interactive way. Responsibilities included animating three pieces in the series, character animation, lip-synching, and working from a storyboard. I worked directly with the art director but primarily on my own.The series of animated shorts can be found here:http://countrydogs.sfmoma.org/

Lead animator for a series of animations; Country Dog Gentlemen and Preparing for the Oath. Responsibilities included Flash Animation, Motion Graphic Animation, Character Animation, Character Lip Synch animation, working directly with Storyboards, working on a team of animators and directly with an art director.Country Dog Gentlemen is an interactive series of Flash animations designed for and displayed in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It featured a pair of talking dogs exploring the world of art. I was responsible for animating three pieces for this series. One piece is about Diego Rivera, another features Louise Bourgeois, and the third piece concentrates on Henri Matisse. Highlights from these animations can be seen in my demo reel on my portfolio website as well as viewed on the SFMOMA’s website in their entirety: http://countrydogs.sfmoma.org/Preparing for the Oath is an interactive Flash based study aid for those preparing to take the federal citizenship test funded by the Smithsonian Institute. The site was designed as a series of Flash animated vignettes focused on different topics to help prepare the viewer to take the citizenship test to become an American citizen. I was responsible for the animation for nearly one hundred animations to illustrate these subjects and educate the viewers. The site in its entirety can be viewed on the Smithsonian’s website at: http://americanhistory.si.edu/citizenship/

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Animation, 3.87

Activities and Societies: Academic Honors List, Phi Omega Epsilon Honor Society, Outstanding Achievement in Computer Animation, Anime.

Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics And Special Effects

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Animation, 4.0