John Rocco
Biography
John Rocco
John Rocco is the jacket artist for Rick Riordan's best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. He is also the author-illustrator of FU FINDS THE WAY, WOLF! WOLF!, MOONPOWDER, and BLACKOUT and collaborated with Whoopi Goldberg on the picture book ALICE. He was previously creative director at Walt Disney Imagineering and serves as preproduction director at Dreamworks for the film Shrek.
Rocco studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and School of Visual Arts in New York City. For many years Rocco has been an art director in the entertainment industry, both in the US and abroad. For Walt Disney Imagineering, he designed attractions at Disney’s Epcot and served as art director for DisneyQuest, a virtual reality theme park in Downtown Disney. Rocco has worked with computer graphics pioneer Robert Abel, the creator of some of the first CGI commercials and special effects, and contributed to several museum projects including Newseum in Washington D.C. and Paul Allen‘s Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.
John Rocco