Hi, I'm Sam.
Instructional Designer & Animator · Logan, UT
Making learning intuitive, concise, and genuinely fun. Focused on human-centered design and gamification — leveraging a BFA and MA in design to transform complex content into easily-navigable products anyone can use.
🎓 BFA + MA Design
🎮 Game Design
🎬 3D / 2D Animation
📚 ADDIE · UX
🦕 Big monsters 👍
Sam Wuehler
BFA + MA · Design
Hi! My name's Sam. I'm an instructional designer/animator living in the Logan, Utah area, focused on human-centered design and gamification — striving to make instruction intuitive, concise, smooth, and fun.
Ever since instruction shifted massively to online learning, I've been interested in making it not painful. I apply game design principles to transform instructional material, business problems, and complex content into easily-navigable, intuitive products anyone can use.
I also like big monsters and cool chaotic action scenes. That contrast between order and chaos is what makes me an effective designer.
Tools & Skills
- Articulate 360
- Articulate Rise
- Storyline
- Canvas LMS
- Maya
- Houdini
- Nuke
- Unreal Engine
- Harmony 21
- DaVinci Resolve
- ADDIE
- Game Design
Funeral Home Empathy Training
A local funeral home needed training so employees could handle difficult client interactions with empathy and professionalism. Full ADDIE process — analysis, objectives, Articulate 360 development, and post-evaluation.
Veterinary Technology Onboarding
Collaborative training replacing USU's in-person onboarding for new Vet Tech students — covering student materials, life in Logan, and required attestations — delivered through LearnBlue LMS.
Graduate Teacher Standardization Course
Built from the ground up — objectives, assignments, and all content — for USU's graduate teacher program. One of three courses aligning all graduate teachers and TAs under consistent standards.
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Cenote
BYU Animation student film — Maya, Houdini & Nuke with ~60 students. Character animation and rig testing.
Watch on Vimeo ↗Dragon Voiceline
Lipsync practice using Truong's rig. Animation, Arnold rendering, Nuke compositing.
Crocodile Punch
Animation on Olenka Denis's free rig. Snappy, weight-driven impact performance.
Cool Flips
Body mechanics study. 3D character animation in Maya combined with 2D animated effects in Harmony 21.
NEOKAIJU
Directed game in Unreal Engine for BYU Animation. Animation cycles, rig testing, level design, state machines.