Sébastien Lavoie's Resume

Sébastien Lavoie

Designer and developer with a focus on automation and video production.

Quebec, Canada, EST

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About

Hey, I’m Seb. I produce, design and animate videos, and I love scripting and automating everything. I’ve worked across advertising, e‑learning, live events, branding and more for clients in North America and Europe.

Work Experience

Anymal

2017 - Present

Co-founder, director and motion designer

Hey, I’m Seb. A designer and developer with a focus on automation and video production. I love to work on real projects and solve interesting problems with elegant solutions.
  • Remote
  • Motion Design
  • Direction

Freelance

2015 - Present

Motion designer and director

I produce, design and animate videos for clients across North America and Europe, specializing in advertising, e-learning, live events, and branding. I've collaborated with leading studios like Thinkmojo, Boombox, and Nova Film. Notable clients include Red Bull, Bombardier, Industrielle Alliance, and Air Canada. I've also work on many video animation projects.

  • Remote
  • Motion Design

Index Coop DAO

2021 - 2022

Motion designer and developer

Contributor producing animated video announcements for product launches like $DATA. I also developed a suite of automation tools to generate daily videos. More here on this: hootomator.
  • Remote
  • Animation
  • After Effects
  • Video

Blackout Design (now Moment Factory)

2014 - 2015

Graphic and motion designer

Created visuals for live music and sporting events across Canada, the US, and the Middle East.
  • Motion Design
  • Live Events

Crakmedia

2013 - 2014

Video automator and motion designer

Led ideation and development of promotional videos. Optimized audiovisual production with scripts, rendering farms and other tools.
  • On Site
  • Video
  • Automation

Ellicom

2010 - 2013

Developer, designer and video editor

Generalist role across web design and development, 2D animation in Flash and After Effects, 3D modeling with 3Ds Max, and video editing.
  • On Site
  • Design
  • Development
  • Video

Education

Cégep de Sainte-Foy

2007 - 2010
Integration multimedia — covering graphic and web design, coding and web development, 3D modeling basics, video and sound editing, and motion graphics.

Skills

  • Illustrator
  • Photoshop
  • Cinema 4D
  • Figma
  • After Effects
  • Premiere Pro
  • Adobe Audition
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Python
  • AppleScript
  • CSS
  • Automation
  • French (native)

Side projects

File Architect

A mac app to create file and folder structures from simple text outlines that I created, designed and developed.

  • PHP
  • Tauri
  • Rust
  • JavaScript

Hyle

Open‑source After Effects templating language and parser released around 2013–2015.

  • JavaScript
  • After Effects

Keyframed.tv

Blog documenting techniques in After Effects; part tutorial site and part personal notebook.

  • Writing
  • After Effects