Jay Piscopo has been making state-of-the-art children's entertainment for more than a dozen years. His passion for using the computer as his canvas has led him to develop his unique signature style of combining 2D characters with 3D backgrounds.

Piscopo served as an art director at Tom Snyder Productions, where he led the creative team in the production of educational CD-ROMs, including the award-winning Fizz and Martina Math Adventures, distributed nationally in tens of thousands of schools around the United States. While at Tom Snyder Productions, Jay also worked as an animator on the ABC Saturday morning show Squigglevision

Prior to joining Tom Snyder, Piscopo was co-creator of the internationally distributed comic book series featuring the worldıs first disabled superheroes, The Scrap City Pack Rats, which he created in partnership with Goodwill Industries. Together, they published a 6 issue series which received national media attention for its groundbreaking approach and subject matter.

Jay is the author and illustrator of The Mystery of the Sargasso Sea, the first graphic novel in The Undersea Adventures of Captın Eli series. This on-going story revives the spirit of the daily adventure comic strip by updating classic themes for a new audience. The stories bring back the feeling of childhood adventure when comics were a nickel, you could buy root beer floats at the neighborhood drug store, and your imagination could propel you anywhere.

Piscopo has taught cartooning to middle and high school students at the Maine College of Art and has been a visiting artist at a number of organizations, including: Bates College, Portland Public Schools, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Spurwink, and Pine Tree Camp for Disabled Youth. He resides in his home town of Portland, Maine.

jaypiscopo@captneli.com

 Check out Jay's discussion of the importance of inspiration and process in this short video.

3-D Links

Some of the 3-D models used in The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli can be found at these links. All models are used under individual licensing agreements.

http://www.planit3d.com
http://www.baument.com
http://www.cacheforce.com/
http://www.animontions.com
http://www.3dcafe.com

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