Interactive, Digital & 3D Technology

Happy Holidays from the ID3D program! This semester, one of our Digital Media students got to design the ornament handed out at the school's holiday luncheon. How do you all decorate your homes for the holidays?

For the upcoming Spring Semester, we are looking for a temporary full-time instructor. Experience in Photoshop, 3D Virtual Environments, Game Storyline & Character Development, and Digital Video Production are the main skill sets we are looking for. If you are interested, apply at the link below.
https://employment.butlercc.edu/postings/10262

This semester our department lost our lead Darryl Runyan. He is a talented creative and amazing teacher. And we say “is” because even though he isn’t with us anymore, his legacy is still at the heart of our program. Darryl knew when to be the push many of us needed to reach that next level. But he also knew when someone just needed a helping hand. His passion for design and technology was inspiring and spread to those around him. The legacy he leaves behind will be the example this department follows for many years to come.
Darryl, thank you for the time you dedicated to both your coworkers and your students. We won’t waste the passion you left in your place.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KFPxZNNOs-s?si=5J9Kfu4mM4RVa3wz

Senior Days at ButlerCC of Andover. 5261 Interactive Design: ADMC Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

For the past several weeks students in ID216 Advanced 3D Design have been learning about fluid simulation and dynamic paint in Blender. After learning the concepts they were tasked with creating a mini portfolio to showcase what they learned. Here are a few of the best ones. I am very proud to share the work of these amazingly skilled, talented hard working students:
Nimona Bock:
https://nemobobemo.artstation.com/projects/3E306J
https://nemobobemo.artstation.com/projects/YGl3X3
https://nemobobemo.artstation.com/projects/oJVDn4
Akira Siharat
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/K3Wmbo
Taylor Sporn
https://nemobobemo.artstation.com/projects/oJVDn4

Drawing in the Snow! Fluid Sim Portfolio For the dynamic paint portion of my fluid sim portfolio, I decided to have a chess piece draw the blender symbol in the snow! I love how it turned out and it's simple yet pretty!

This is what we do!

Our design studio just delivered its first order of the semester! Orders like this really help our Graphical Production students gain hands-on experience with delivering client ready products.

Our design studio just delivered its first order of the semester! Orders like this really help our Graphical Production students gain hands-on experience with delivering client ready products.

Our faculty don't just teach students skills, we teach them how they can be used across multiple practices. When our students learn about 3D modeling, they learn how that can be applied to prototyping. When they learn about branding, they learn how that's used in product design. If you want to learn the Fundamentals of 3D Design or how to use branding to help with Graphical Production, swing by Butler Community College and apply now.

Professor Jon Simpson 3D printed these Butler Community College logos. After throwing a little hardware on, we now have some awesome keychains. Our students will be learning how to make merch like this in our Digital Media degree.

As we continue to enjoy finals being over it is time to celebrate another student's outstanding work. This time from ID113 UX/UI. In ID113 students learn the fundamentals of Figma (software) and the concepts behind creating positive User Experiences (UX) and intuitive User Interfaces (UI). Figma allows the student to quickly prototype and iterate their design. Here Nathan Anderson used what he learned to create this modern portfolio to showcase his student work so far. Great job Nathan!
https://www.figma.com/proto/P36Zqg2boOxsEB3y2B8ntJ/Anderson_N_Final?node-id=32-543&p=f&t=XWzGfpBjPlZH6mX6-1&scaling=min-zoom&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=32%3A100&starting-point-node-id=32%3A543

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Final grades for Spring 2025 are entered. Here is a sample of the great work the I3D students created this semester. First up from ID116 3D1 incredible work by Taylor Sporn.

3D Animation Portfolio