Visual Design Lead at General Electric

Gustavo G. Forster

Sao Paulo, Brazil

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I'm an art director, motion designer, web designer, ilustrator and 3D artist with more than 12 years of experience.

I love character animation, to learn new things and I thrive at new challenges.

Specialties: Corporate identity, layout creation, concept designs, brand design, flash based sites, 3d animation, 3d modeling, CSS, HTML, ActionScript.
Education
- Character Animation Program Animation
  
  AnimSchool
  
  2011 - 2013
Experience
- Lead Visual Designer, Innovation Team
  
  General Electric
  
  Oct 2011 - Present (14 years 8 months)
  
  Started as the Lead Designer for the Communications team in GE Brazil, redefining layouts for internal and external communications, redesigning the GE Reports Brasil Blog and helping out with strategic design and communication decisions for the Facebook fan for GE Brazil.
  
  In the end of 2012 I moved to the High-Impact Innovation Team at GE USA working as the Lead Visual Designer. My role is to build iPhone/iPad app layouts for the internal clients as well to produce motion design videos for products and events presentations. I also develop branding communication to some internal products.
- Senior motion/interactive designer
  
  Grupo TV1
  
  Aug 2008 - Oct 2011 (3 years 2 months)
  
  Made several 3D, After Effects and Flash animated and layouts for hotsites. Clients inclued O Boticário, AMBEV, Guaraná, H.Stern, among others.
- Web designer
  
  Terra Networks
  
  May 2006 - Jun 2008 (2 years 1 month)
  
  Created layouts for the portal's channels and provided maintenance with CSS and HTML coding.
- Art Director
  
  RAPP Brasil
  
  2006 - 2007 (1 year)
  
  Created layouts for hotsites mainly for Petrobras, which was at the time one of the agency's clients.
- Art Director
  
  Itaú Unibanco | AIG
  
  2002 - 2003 (1 year)
  
  Created layouts for their intranet, for their website, their partner websites, along with e-mail marketings and internal communications pieces.
- 3D Modeler
  
  RPM Produtora
  
  2001 - 2001
  
  Created animations and renderings for many animatics for national and international ads and 3D product vizualizations.
- Web Designer
  
  Tenda Digital
  
  2000 - 2001 (1 year)
  
  Created layouts and animations for Unibanco AIG, their client at the time.
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