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Voigt Creations - 3D on 52nd - by Mario Morone
by Mario Morone
posted: Feb. 20, 2015

The inspiration for Bart Voigt's career in technology and computer graphics began early in his life. He is the owner of Voigt Creations, located at 740 E. 52nd Street, Suite 8.

Bart Voigt with some of his graphic design work.
Bart Voigt with some of his graphic design work.
image courtesy of Mario Morone
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"It's what I grew up around. My father was a civil engineer and I gravitated toward that kind of education. I started playing with 3D designs in grade school. My father brought a mobile computer home one day. I started working with that with his permission. When we got our own computer later, I started working with AutoCAD and the 3D modeling capabilities it offered," he recalled.
Those initial experiences influenced his major in college. "I continued working with 3D animation in college after transferring from engineering. Technical Graphics was the name of the program at Purdue University. It was renamed Computer Graphic Technology. I've created landscape designs, prototypes and visuals for one of the permanent exhibits at the Indiana State Museum's Walk through Time display the year that it opened. There are different time blocks of history where my animation work appears. Next to that, there is a large animation of a time lapse creation of what the Indiana landscape might have looked like during that period," Voigt explained.
His career continued to evolve in using 3D content. "I worked in programming and web page development for a while at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. While there, I would periodically do 3D modeling for the applications I was working on at the time. I moved down to Indianapolis after that and worked in multi-media. I gradually created more 3D animations every year and eventually worked directly under an architecture firm creating renderings and animations full-time. I did the animation for Reggie Miller's house and also did the interior and exterior of Huntington College when they were working on the design for it. Some of the past projects I worked on were the renderings for the Indianapolis International Airport and IUPUI Cancer Center. Currently, I am working with numerous companies across the country, doing most of my work through the National Association of Church Design Builders," he said.
The diversity of his projects motivates him. "I like being challenged in working on new designs and intricate detail-oriented constructions. One of the coolest things I put together a couple of years ago was stepping into holographic technology. It's still a little on the pricey side for high-end holograms. The high-end ones are what I prefer to work with. You can use anything for the content that can be represented in 3D. It's much more robust than the lenticular keychains and collectors cups that use layering planes sliding across each other. The companies that I've talked to love the look of the holograms. The majority of the price is the cost of the content developed to go into the project. Once you have enough content to develop a hologram, you have enough detail for an all-around the facility animation. The holographic printing of it is cheaper than getting a full-color model of it built or 3D model printed," Voigt noted.

Voigt Creations - 3D on 52nd - by Mario Morone
image courtesy of Mario Morone
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"If all of the content is developed for putting it into a hologram, it is about six times less than the equivalent color 3D model. The 3D model would cost more to get printed depending on the detail when different artists work on it. They are easier to store and ship than a 3D model. I also like to see the reaction of people when they finally see the life-like representation of their design or idea. When you see something in your mind, it often needs to change a little when it becomes a reality. That's one of the reasons I focus on realistic images more than stylized ones. I want people to see the reality in their designs. 3D can be used in a lot of different areas, like prototype design, general conceptual ideas and data representation in addition to architecture, games and movies. It can also be developed into different levels of detail, depending on what you want the message to be. The entire technology set has become very portable where digital images for a single high resolution rendering can be downloaded anywhere in the world and with remote meeting and screen-sharing technology, physical location becomes a non-issue," he mentioned.
Examples of his work can be seen at 3dprint.voigtcreations.com. For project inquiries, call 782-5499 or e-mail: bart@voigtcreations.com.
Bart Voigt has created artwork for advertising agencies, architects, engineering firms, museums and universities. He can conceptualize and design your next project at Voigt Creations just around the corner from Broad Ripple.



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