Dazzling Digital Art

  ***IMAGE FLASH WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THE VIDEO IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO MOVEMENT OR FLASHING LIGHTS*** Here is my Kinetic Typography project! For this assignment, we needed to take  text from an existing piece of work and put it into an interactive canvas. We had a lot of freedom in what we wanted to use for this project and I chose a very special piece of text and image for mine. I LOVE how this piece turned out! It is one of my favorite pieces to date. Fantastical Facts: Kinetic Typography Edition: This project is 1,959 lines in total, including the Javascript files. This one was not as much as the last project, but still pretty hefty in the file size with all of the text. It didn't break my computer this time, but was close a few times!  The image used is my Grandpa Fred who sadly passed away a few years ago. Before he passed, he wrote all of his grandchildren a book called, "Things I Wish My Grandparents Told Me", about his life and childhood. I used text from...

Here is my weight project! For this assignment, we needed to take a full body character and have it try to hold something either too heavy or very light. There was a lot of ways to go about this project, but I ended up making this new character! It's name is Nutmeg! Not sure whether it is a cross between a bear and a hamster or just one or the other... Regardless, I still made them try to catch a very heavy cookie and fall over. Fantastical Facts: Weight Edition: Overall, I had a bit of a hard time with this project. Animation is a bit hard for me and I had a lot of critiques. I fixed them as best as I could!   I really had fun designing Nutmeg as a character! It was fun to try different positions and make it come to life!  As always, thank you for supporting this small artist and blog! I hope you enjoy the work as much as I do when I create it! Have a magical day! -Maddy Wessling  

  ***IMAGE FLASH WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THE VIDEO IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO MOVEMENT OR FLASHING LIGHTS*** Here is my Illustrator Mandala project entitled, "It's My Party!" For this project we needed to take more complicated images than the Image Mandala and take them into Adobe Illustrator, simplify them, and make a mandala out of the images in Adobe Dreamweaver. These images were imported using Javascript files, so that way we were able to make cool changes to the images without having a disorganized code. Fantastical Facts: Illustrator Mandala Edition: This project is 6,261 lines total! This is by far the biggest project so far! A good amount of the lines were generated from Illustrator and then made into Javascript files, however, they are still counted in the total as they are referenced in the main source code.  It was a challenge in this project to find images that weren't too complicated so that way the code could run without crashing the computer. Luckily...

***IMAGE FLASH WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THE VIDEO IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO MOVEMENT OR FLASHING LIGHTS*** Here is my Vector Mandala project! Our objective for this assignment was to make shapes and vectors out of code and then create a mandala. We needed to have at least 10 different canvases, each with their own interactive element. I tried something a little bit out of what I usually create and decided to use more black elements to create a space theme. I am really happy with how this piece turned out and I am glad I went a little out of my comfort zone with the colors!  Fantastical Facts: Vector Mandala Edition: This project is 896 lines total! Still not my biggest project but for sure  broke my computer! The hefty code broke my high-powered Macbook Pro at least 3 times!  With the code being so large, I wasn't able to achieve everything I originally wanted. I wanted the center planet to be rotating in color, like my previous project, but it was just too much on the ...

Here is my head turn project! Our objective was to take a character, with at least the head and shoulders showing, and make the head turn. There was no specific character we needed to use, just whatever we felt like choosing. So, I chose to draw this corgi! I really like how it turned out! I am not an Animation major, so this project was a little hard for me, and it is only one second, but for not ever animating before I am happy with how far I have come. Fantastical Facts: Corgi Head Turn Edition: Corgis are one of my favorite types of dogs! In a lot of my pieces, I will typically draw my own dogs, however I have never had a corgi. I hope to some day have a tan and white Pembroke corgi!  When I was exporting the final animation, I made a little mistake and forgot to add the color card! Sometimes we all make silly mistakes! 😅 I chose an interesting angle to make a head turn from, but it was for a reason. Corgis will typically lay in a position like this, and it is called a sploot!...

***IMAGE FLASH WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THE VIDEO IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO MOVEMENT OR FLASHING LIGHTS*** Here is my Image Mandala project! Our assignment for this project was to take 10 images that we took ourselves, and make it into a mandala using both Dreamweaver and Photoshop. This project was so much fun for me! I really enjoyed how much creative freedom we had with the coding process and that we had to take the pictures ourselves. The mandala is for sure one of my favorite projects I've done so far in Dreamweaver! Fantastical Facts: Image Mandala Edition: This project is 619 lines total! It isn't a whole lot compared to a code like Totoro, however, the effects that can be made in those lines are incredible! It goes to show that sometimes less can be more.    The background image is of a sunset from my backyard. The bee towards the center and some of the flowers are from flowers that I used to grow in high school for FFA. Some of the other flowers and the leaves are f...