Generalist Animation Reel

A collection of 2D and 3D animation work.

Shot List

The Velvet Underground Played at My HighSchool: Animated short film documentary about the Velvet Underground’s first public performance; Completed rotoscope animation as well as helped plan production; Tribeca Film Festival: Best Animation Short nominee, Sydney World Film Festival: Best Documentary Short Film Winner, Toronto Arthouse Film Festival: Best Documentary Short Film, and more…

Villa Maria College: Empowered to Transform: Short film highlighting the history and principles of Villa Maria College; Animated and Directed production

Falling Squirrel: Independent animated short film; Completed All Elements

Imaginext: Serpent Pirate Ship: Animated Episodic Film for distribution with Fisher Price Products; Completed Animation, Rigging, and Lighting/Rendering

Ninja Fight: Independent animation; Completed All Elements

Popcorn Bird: Independent animation testing character rigs; Completed All Elements

Building a Basilica: Visualization for CBS Documentary; Completed Modeling, Texturing, Digital Sculpting

FreshMax Multisorb: Visualization for FreshMax Product Sizzler; Completed All Elements

Adfors Products: Visualization for Adfors Product Sizzler; Completed Modeling, Texturing, and Lighting/Rendering

Character Rigging Demonstration: Demonstrating rig used for MFA thesis project; Completed All Elements

Resume

	Jonathan Cone nojcone@yahoo.com
Experience	Freelance Animator Cone Productions, Dundalk, MD September 2009 –Current Provide animation services typically involving 3D modeling, texturing, character rigging, animation, lighting & rendering, as well as 2D animation & motion graphics.
	Assistant Professor Cecil College, Cecil, MD August 2014 – Current Presently teaching courses in 3D animation, Game Design, Web Design, Digital Imaging, Multimedia, etc. Complete all tasks required of a full-time professor.
	Assistant Professor Villa Maria College, Buffalo, NY September 2009 – May 2013 Taught courses in 3D animation, 2D animation, stop-motion, character design, etc. Completed all tasks required of a full-time professor. Director of Animation Instruction New York Film Academy at Harvard University, Cambridge, MD Summer 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Lead international students through the process of creating an animated short film during a 4 week course. Students were taught both the preproduction process as well as 3D animation.
	Animation Generalist Fisher Price, East Aurora, NY May 2009 – September 2009 Performed rigging, animation, and lighting of 3D characters based on a toy-line to be distributed as advertisement for the product.
Education	M.F.A. Imaging Arts: 3D Animation Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Spring 2009 B.F.A Applied Media Arts: 2D Animation Edinboro University,Edinboro, PA Spring 2006
References	References are available on request.