Abby is a 12-year-old from Clearwater, Florida whose coding projects caught our eye. She creates incredible hand-drawn artwork, and then animates it using coding to build amazing visual experiences. Learn more about Abby and why she loves to code!<\/p>\n
What are your hobbies?\u00a0<\/strong>3D animation and drawing. Typically, I just draw to express myself. I put my thoughts down on paper.<\/p>\n What do you want to be when you grow up?<\/strong>\u00a0I want to either work for Pixar or be a 3D modeler and work on special effects for movies.<\/p>\n How did you get introduced to coding?<\/strong> My friends at school found this cool app called Tynker and they were like, \u201cHey, come check it out!\u201d We have iPads at our school, and they had Tynker on there, and everyone was like, \u201cWow, what\u2019s Tynker?\u201d And we just tried it out, and we were like, \u201cWow, this is really cool! We should get into this and make some really cool projects.\u201d So we did, and I\u2019m like, \u201cI think I want to try this and actually make something really cool.\u201d So I looked around in the featured section and saw the face makers, and thought, \u201cI want to make one because I\u2019m good at drawing.\u201d<\/p>\n How do you make your\u00a0drawings?<\/strong> Just with my fingers. I mean, I like it. I think it\u2019s pretty easy.<\/p>\n Do your friends use Tynker?<\/strong> Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah. All the kids I hang out with use Tynker and they love it.<\/p>\n