Sébastien Lavoie

Design engineer

Hey, I’m Seb. A designer and developer with video chops. I love to work on bold projects and solve complex problems with elegant solutions.

Work I enjoy doing

Design and develop web solutions

Be it for marketing websites or for web app prototypes, I think the web is the best place to build fast and well.

My favorite tools are Figma, Laravel, tailwindcss, alpinejs, vue, react, and hugo.

Automate systems and build tools

A big part of doing good work is removing inefficiencies. When solutions for my problems don’t exist, I go and figure it out. A lot of these are quick duct taped solutions, but they work. I’ve built macOS tools, visualization experiments, and scripts for Illustrator and After Effects, including a full markup language and compiler for After Effects.

My favorite tools are PHP, Python, JavaScript, and AppleScript.

Create videos, by hand or via automation

I have worked for many years in the world of motion design and animation. I’ve worked as a freelancer and cofounder of a studio. I’ve also developed many different automation solutions to automate the production of video creation. I’ve also documented a lot of my findings and notes along the years.

My favorite tools are After Effects, Javascript, Cinema 4D, FFMPEG, Lottie, and Remotion.

Projects

Hootomator

A set of tools built for indexcoop.com to fetch the daily crypto prices and automatically create a daily video of the prices changes.

Trimute

A video automation service to help businesses produce videos faster.

Anymal

A motion design studio I cofounded. I’m in charge of all the tech processes and animation production.

Hyle

A templating language with a custom-built compiler for After Effects.