Sebastjan Rijavec
A rare blend of technical expertise and creative vision: I turn complex ideas into things that ship. Across visual effects, technical art, the Yahoo composer platform, and now the naval sector, I've kept a never-ending quest to learn and an "I've got this" attitude, happiest sitting where engineering meets craft and product. This is my corner of the internet, a blog for the projects, experiments, and tangents worth sharing.
What you'll find here
A blog of essays and notes on the projects, ideas, and experiments I'm working on; a selection of my work spanning visual effects to AI; and the occasional lighter tangent, usually featuring Pika.
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A short feed for both of us. Updated when something happens.
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Pam Earle
Creative Director · Ex-Yahoo/Tumblr
Working with Seb was an absolute pleasure, especially during our collaboration on the Augmented Reality (AR) project. Seb's contribution was instrumental in the development of our innovative AR tool. His ability to bring complex designs to life in the AR space was nothing short of remarkable. Seb possesses a rare blend of technical expertise and creative vision, which he leveraged to elevate our project to new heights. His proficiency in 3D modeling tools and techniques was evident in the quality and detail of his work. But what truly set Seb apart was his collaborative spirit. He was always willing to share his knowledge, offer constructive feedback, and assist team members, ensuring that the entire team benefitted from his insights :)
Nigel Tierney
Award Winning Director · Creative Producer
Seb is an incredible person with a serious depth of talent, knowledge, and most importantly a deep passion to learn. His ability to take on each challenge and deploy the best technique necessary has been both a necessity and a joy for the success of Yahoo. A variety of skills that Seb demonstrated against delivering our company needs include: generating assets along with a pipeline for the largest executed augmented reality web platform, which generated 100+ Million AR experiences, and earning significant revenue; deploying scalable Houdini based solutions to generate ad and sports content; executing realtime experiences using Unreal game engine and deploying over 5G; managing a team of data and technical artists to execute and deliver on data driven storytelling; and most recently executing AI based solutions to help visualize the news. Hopefully, you will get a sense of his humble willingness to take on any task, our team's reliance on his innovative mind, and most importantly his incredibly kind personality and charm. I would be happy to recommend Seb to anyone who is lucky enough to scoop him up.
Guenever Goik
Senior Creative Producer
Seb is a tenacious and creative force. His wonderful creative skills are well supported by a never-ending quest to learn new techniques and programs. He has an excellent connection with engineering and product that really elevated what our platform could do. Best of all, Seb's "I've got this" attitude is inspiring to those working with him.
Elie Imad
Project Assistant · UNESCO
I worked with Sebastjan when he was leading in VTR London/Beirut. One of his main added value is the capability to work for long hours and speed in applying the feedbacks. In addition to the above, his creativity and quality of the deliverables were an asset to our post-production jobs.