John Rocco

[4] John Rocco spent 18 months as animation director at ImagineAsia in Manila, Philippines.

Rocco worked on and oversaw several projects while there involving CGI animation, motion capture, and story development.

[6] Another artist illustrated the first edition dustjacket for at least the first Camp Half-Blood Chronicles novel by Rick Riordan,The Lightning Thief.

Before the end of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians subseries (2005 to 2009), all volumes were in print with stylistically matching dustjackets illustrated by Rocco.

[citation needed] New cover illustrations from a single Rocco painting that spans all five books were introduced early in 2014.