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Sébastien Lavoie

Director, motion designer and 2D animator

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Curated by Kayla Elorza for Motion Ocean
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...
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Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Figma
Creative Direction
Motion Design
Editing
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.
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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...
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If you're an After Effects user, I've written quite a bit in the last couple of years on keyframed.tv about various tips, tricks, and expressions. The best one imo is a composition naming system for After Effects . It's readable and hierarchical naming system I started using...
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