Hi everyone!
My name is Thomas Scaplen and I am a Junior undergraduate student at WPI studying electrical and computer engineering. As far as my experience with art making I never really worked on any art projects individually before college but was something I wanted to explore. At WPI I have taken courses in digital art, which intrigued me because of my interests in technology. As an ECE major I have had some experience with programming and electronics. In particular I have programming experience in C, java, and python. In addition, I have used an Arduino a couple times before so I have done some programming with that.
Below I have attached an image from one of my most recent projects and a video of a second one. The first one is a 3D character model of Jordan Spieth, who is a professional golfer, and the second one is a short animation of the “Who’s on First?” comedy skit by Abbott and Costello.
The video below is a project I completed at WPI in Animation 1.
Outside of school I enjoy athletics, outdoor games such as Frisbee and Spikeball, and listening to music. In high school I played soccer, golf and baseball. My involvement with sports is where my inspiration for the two projects above came from.
In addition to the art projects I have attached some pictures from ECE projects I have done that involve things like LEDs, LED screen displays, light sensors, and programming that might be useful for this class.
My hope for this class is to combine art, music and electronics to create a fun and entertaining project.