Matt Costa Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Recognized within Riot as a creative leader for the internationally beloved League of Legends IP.Responsible for mentoring and helping other creatives develop their projects in all stages of development and production.Developed the creative identity for League of Legends Season Start moment then continueed to build it into one of the fanbase's most beloved moments each year.Developed the strategy for, then co-wrote and co-directed Riot's fastest animated cinematic to reach 100 million views. Still Here achieved this in only 5 days.Responsible for building processes and leading crossteam collaborative efforts between IP creative, Game development and Marketing teams.Regularly entrusted with multi-million dollar budgets with the goal of creating resonaant creative experiences.Created marquee animated cinematics that have collectively amassed over 500 million views and resonanted with audiences all over the world.Responsible for selecting animation partners then working with them to build a sustainable relationship that suits everyone's needs.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Served as the lead creative and worked with brand leadership to build a team focused on connected creative experiences.Created a story moment that trended on Reddit and Youtube despite being released along side the announcement of multiple new Riot games.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

New York, Us

New York, Us

As a technical director for the Siggraph Computer Animation Festival I am responsible for the acquisition and organization of festival content through careful planning and technical execution. With this, comes quality checking the videos for proper formatting and preforming any necessary conversions in order to ensure smooth playback at the final show. In addition to handling submitter content, I have also created interstitial animated title screens and end credits for the final show. Along with working as technical director, as a committee member I attend monthly online planning meetings, help to facilitate the jury process and assist the festival director as he leads the committee towards putting on the show.

As a freelance editor and filmmaker, I work in a variety of capacities throughout the video production pipeline. I have worked as an editor on wide range of projects including documentary, promotional, narrative scripted and events. In addition to editing, I also fill the roles of Producer, Director, Writer and additional support roles throughout the pipeline. I have preformed these tasks for hire as well as spear heading my own independent projects. A few of my most recent projects are listed below. For more details, please visit my website at http://mdcvisual.com.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

While working as a computing services consultant for Carnegie Mellon University my responsibilities included:• Assisting in maintaining departmental network and troubleshot software/hardware issues directly with over 300 hosts, 150 users and a public computer cluster.• Researched/Configured/Imaged/Troubleshot existing and newly acquired computer and multimedia equipment.• Filming/Editing/Publishing lectures, ceremonies, and activities for traditional and web distribution.• Designing and implementing strategies to handle department technical issues. • Designing graphics for departmental identification through websites, DVD’s and banners.• Responding to technical issues via direct interaction with users, email, or phone. • Development of documentation of technical materials for non-technical audiences.• Participating in the design and implementation of proprietary lab set-ups.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

In this program I focused primarily on film and video production. I studied everything from creative content development to the technical execution of it's creation. I strengthened my knowledge on the entire production pipeline with specific attention to technology used in the film and television industry today. Being that most of the projects were based on some sort of narrative I also worked on developing my skills in storytelling. This was augmented by working along side one of my professor for three semesters as the head teaching assistant in Visual Storytelling. The first semester at the ETC consisted of four core class Building Virtual Worlds, Visual Storytelling, Improvisational Acting, and ETC Fundamentals. Each of the final three semesters consisted of project based curriculum. My projects and roles were as follows:Cosmic Contact - Visual Designer/Layout ArtistSturm und Drang Productions - Writer/Editor/Director/Producer/CompositorThe Grid - Visual Designer/ProducerDescriptions of the projects can be seen below. Additionally, I organized and led an independent study in visual effects for myself and seven of my classmates.

As a reader I read scripts submitted to the agency and made recommendations to my superiors as to whether or not we should look into representing the writer or not. Additionally, I responded to each writer that submitted coverage on ways to improve their script.

Master'S Degree, Entertainment Technology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Film Studies