Jeffrey Vogel
3D Animator · Focus Universal
Upland, CA
In My Own Words
As a multifaceted digital artist I help create methods of clear, effective, comprehensible visual communication for target demographics. I love to answer the question, how can we do that?
I use my skills & experience as an artistic creative to conceive and build accessible, thoughtful, meaningful visual and interactive designs.
As people spend more time on line and become more selective about the time they spend on line in the digital, virtual world, we need to continue to create designs with the ultimate purpose of communicating clearly, efficiently, and stylishly.
Work Experience
3D Animator | Motion Graphic Animator Designer
Focus Universal2019 – Present
• Creating virtual representations of products and accessories that will be put into production. • Modeling hard and soft body elements & structures using real world scale. • Creating virtual environments as demos for investors and potential clients/users.
3D Generalist | Motion Graphics Animator | Graphic Designer
Accuride International2012 – 2019
• Full stack 3D product developer, modeling, texturing, lighting, animation compositing and rendering for in-house productions of product development and marketing videos. • Technical art generalist in Maya, worked with R&D engineering to develop and display virtual product lines for marketing and installation videos. • Provided creative direction and pipeline production control for product animation projects.
Print Production | Graphic Designer | Web Designer
Accuride International2006 – 2019
• Creation of print ads product catalogs, instruction sheets, display tags and additions to the company web page. • Design, printing and installation of full-size trade show graphics. • Production photography of for catalogs, print ads and web applications. • Involved in every step of the print production process for all printed materials.
ELearning Designer
National University San Diego2015 – 2017
• Converted older content into dynamic, engaging eLearning presentations. • Create graphical assets for digital online learning content. • Designed and developed iconography, logos and illustrations relevant to media content. • Development of new course materials introduced and/or converted to the new format.
Graphic Designer | Textile Artist | Web Designer, Balboa Mfg.
Zan Headgear|Balboa Mfg.2003 – 2006
• Design & production of catalogs, merchandise, advertising and packaging for product lines. • Designs for specialty clothing line and merchandise items. Production photography of product lines. • Design and distribution of weekly and monthly mass emails for desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
