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Sébastien Lavoie
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This short ad i animated a couple of months ago was the first time that i was able to truly merge ai-animated elements into my usual vector animation workflow.
It's mostly animated by hand in after effects. but frame-by-frame of birds flapping their wings would not have been...
I rarely do cel animation, but it was a really cool challenge to do some frame-by-frame for the title section I animated in the explainer of the Crankworx mountain biking competition.
Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or5OB8cVAsw
Creating a video that would show both the power of AI while still feeling deeply human was an interesting challenge this summer.
Finding the right balance between explaining with words and showing with images what needs to be communicated is not easy, but I think the result...
As a snowboarder myself, it was really nice to get the opportunity to design and animate some of the assets for Chasing Winter, a snowboarding movie from Redbull.
Some frames I enjoyed designing from a video project we built out last year for a studio specialized in AI-driven educational videos.
Finding the right balance of show versus tell on a project like this can be subtle. Selling a solution requires a good explanation of the problem...
