Illustration of an “abomination” from WoW/Warcraft 3 created for a DoTA blog on wowriot.com.

Digital

Over the course of about 3 months, the University of Wisconsin Executive Education‘s website was converted from static pages, to a dynamic database driven site, with a modern aesthetic and significant user interface improvements. I contributed in nearly every aspect, including XHTML & CSS template creation, MS SQL database design and implementation, JavaScript/JQuery and classic ASP programming, and graphical asset creation.

Business cards created for dietitian and fitness trainer Dane Bowler.

Logo for a wedding and event decoration company.

Magazine ad and postcard created for University of Wisconsin Executive Education.

New Soarce Identity and Business cards.

Adam_Vogel_First_Platformer

My first attempt at a flash sidescroller, made as my final project for a Flash class, programmed in actionscript 3.0. Its a pretty simple Actraiser/Castlevania style platformer, no storyline, sound, or real level design, just a basic funtionality test for all of the gameplay elements. Despite its simplicity, my classmates were quite challenged and only a few managed to actually get to the end, since it takes pretty precise timing to make some of the jumps. I’ve noticed some lag and performance issues when playing on lower end machines, so sometimes its best to download the .swf file and then run it locally. Also, it’s best to run with the browser maximized, or else it will flicker (it was originally set up to run from adobe flash player at a fixed resolution).

Despite the lack of polish, overall I’m quite satisfied with how this turned out (I got an A too). I basically cranked it out in one weekend, having only 4 months of flash experience under my belt, working from a tutorial that provided some basic things like getting the character to move and jump, the “render” cycle, floors, walls etc. I created all of the graphics, animations, different attack types, enemies and traps.

Oil on board, 11 x 14, 18 x 24, 18 x 24

Character concepts for a flash animation, created in Illustrator.

Digital

Character concept sketch for an earth giant/elemental creature for an animation.

Digital