For my final project I wanted to create a study in Sonder. In this sense, I wanted to create a piece that represented the idea of sonder and what it represents. Sonder ~noun The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends,…
Author: JT Tai
Final Project Concept
Here is the idea: The metaphor is Life. Life is an abstract thing that people have failed to come to a comprehensive agreement upon. Exactly what is it? Exactly why does it happen. What is our purpose? Who knows. No one really does. But one thing is for certain. Everyone has life, and everyone’s life…
Computer Vision – Finger Puppets!
Computer vision is always a fun thing to play around with. In max the use of the Open CV package really makes this much much much more easier to manage, since you then don’t have to think about the crazy implementation and doing kalman filters, and doing the right integrals on the data and so…
Meme Remix
So! Super Smash Bros Ultimate is about to be released. I am INCREDIBLY excited. So much so that i have been watching wayyyy too many gameplay videos. That aside recently nintendo released a pretty neat trailer that basically shows a majority of the fighters duking it out to no music. Some clever people managed to…
Interactive Animation
Interactive Animations are a lot of fun. I remember playing with these sorts of point and click games as a child. Always a blast. This time I got to make my own! I mean primarily obviously the purpose here is to learn how to use max but still a fun little project. Wish WPI allowed…
Paper Nature
Alright, time to take the concept art and bring it to fruition. Honestly the most difficult part of the process of making this was finding out what the right way to twist the tree was. Too often did I find myself trying to twist and tie branches together who just wouldn’t stay twisted. However I…
Geometric Abstraction
For my geometric abstraction, I took inspiration specifically from Thomas Downing and his work using dots. Specifically I drew inspiration from his inclusion of geometric shapes forming other larger geometric shapes. Kind of like this: Now for mine, i particularly enjoyed the offset 3d skewed vision that the open cylinder and open cube gave…
Animated Abstraction
SO! Building off the last assignment, lets get this thing moving! Well in some way shape or form. Knowing that this assignment was coming, I secretly designed the last assignment in order to work well with this one! MUAHAHAHA! How did I do this you ask? Why with my color step sequencer of course! (…
Paper Nature Concept Art
So for this paper nature assignment, I had been thinking a little bit about looking around me and taking in exactly where I am at the moment. Well, honestly if I look around, i see a lot of trees, and a lot of barren ones this time of year. But also a lot of fun…
Jonathan Tai – Bio and works
Hi there! Glad you could make it! I’m Jonathan Tai, but most people just call me J.T. I am from Shanghai, China, but I have grown up pretty much all over the place. Born in Florida, lived in Beijing and Bangalore for a few years before spending the rest of my formative years in Shanghai….