Project AnimatedBG 

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One of my current works in progress is a plugin for Divi 5 focused on animated and reactive backgrounds — designed to bring sections and rows to life without turning a website into a disco accident (unless that’s exactly the goal).

The idea is simple in concept, but surprisingly powerful in practice: backgrounds can be injected into any section or row through a class system, while a floating control panel allows the user to tweak parameters in real time directly inside the builder. Colors, movement, intensity, blending, speed… everything can be adjusted live while designing.

Want something subtle and elegant?
Soft gradients slowly drifting in the background, almost invisible until you notice how “alive” the page feels.

Prefer something more energetic?
You can push the settings into fast-moving, attention-grabbing visuals that practically demand coffee and electronic music.

Some animations are also context-aware. Elements placed above a row or section can influence the animation below it. For example, an image can create reflections, motion distortion, glow effects, or subtle environmental interaction inside the animated background beneath it.

Another experimental feature involves audio-reactive behavior. Depending on sound input, the background can shift colors, pulse, resize, distort, or change movement patterns dynamically. In other words: yes, your website may eventually learn to dance.

The goal is not simply to create “pretty effects,” but to offer designers a flexible visual tool that feels creative, interactive, and genuinely fun to use while still remaining practical for real-world websites.

Early experiments and prototype tests can currently be found on the AnimatedBG page — where chaos and innovation are still negotiating their final agreement.

 

Idea (No name yet)

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Experimental Idea Lab

Another concept currently floating around in my collection of late-night ideas, sketches, and “this might either be brilliant or completely insane” moments is a future plugin focused entirely on advanced text and letter manipulation.

Unlike the animated background project, this one is still very much in the idea phase. Some concepts may end up fully workable, others may prove technically difficult, performance-heavy, or simply too chaotic for normal human civilization. That said… experimenting is half the fun.

The general vision is to transform text from something static into something alive, reactive, and interactive.

Imagine letters that gently move, breathe, pulse, or react to live sound input from a microphone. Colors could shift dynamically, characters could resize independently, or a virtual magnifying glass could glide across text and distort it in real time.

Some of the more experimental concepts currently being explored include:

• Dynamic Text-Along-Path — Letters flowing along invisible curves that continuously morph and reshape themselves.

• Glitch & Cyberpunk Effects — Characters flickering, randomly shifting horizontally, temporarily transforming into code symbols or “Matrix-style” fragments before restoring themselves.

• 3D Extrusion & Rotation — Letters rotating in three-dimensional space with shadows and depth reacting naturally.

• Gravity & Physics Simulation — Text behaving like physical objects, falling, colliding, bouncing, or reacting to page movement.

• Smoke & Liquid Morphing — Letters dissolving like smoke or merging together like liquid droplets using advanced visual filters.

• Mouse Repulsion — Characters physically avoiding the mouse cursor before elastically snapping back into place.

• Spotlight Reveal Effects — Hidden or darkened text becoming visible only where the cursor moves, almost like holding a flashlight over the screen.

• Directional / Eye-Tracking Style Reactions — Letters tilting, stretching, or transforming based on cursor position and movement.

The goal is not to create unreadable visual chaos (although that may accidentally happen during testing), but to explore how typography can become interactive, emotional, playful, and immersive.

At this stage, these are still ideas and experiments rather than promised features. Some may evolve into real tools, others may remain gloriously unfinished experiments somewhere between art project and controlled malfunction.

And of course, if anyone has additional ideas, strange concepts, or creative suggestions… they are more than welcome. Some of the best features usually start with someone saying: “This is probably impossible, but…”

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