Samuel Thibodeau

Motion Designer
3D Artist

Available for projects Montréal, Canada · 2026
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Halo Dental Technologies

Halo Dental Technologies is a Canadian startup that designed and developed a connected digital mirror for dentists. Our team built the website and launch video to bring the product to market.

The dental industry is dominated by a handful of multinationals and isn’t especially open to new players. Selling a preorder-only mirror priced more than 350 times higher than a traditional one, for a company no one had heard of, was a major challenge. The work had to establish instant credibility and make a premium, unfamiliar product feel inevitable.

Drawing on the polished, high-fidelity language of the world’s leading technology brands, we built a visual universe that captures attention while making the product’s benefits immediately clear. Every detail signals precision and trust, positioning Halo not as a newcomer but as a serious contender in a closed market.

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Motorola

Motorola is a global technology brand with a presence spanning every market and touchpoint, from the smallest interface to the largest campaign. Built alongside PORTO ROCHA, the project was a complete rebrand and a full rebuild of the systems behind how the company shows up worldwide.

The challenge was scale. A brand operating at Motorola’s reach needs a system rigid enough to stay coherent across thousands of applications, yet flexible enough to evolve with the times without losing its roots. The framework was built from the ground up, defining how every element behaves from micro to macro, from a single icon to a global product launch.

The system spans every expression of the brand, from typography and colour to product and campaign. Among its pillars is motion, a theory that captures Motorola’s energy, attitude and expression. It's treated as a supportive layer, stripped back when nonessential so the message can take the spotlight, and never decorative. Every move amplifies meaning and reflects the brand's confident, expressive personality. The result is a living system, built to hold together at any scale and to carry Motorola forward while keeping it unmistakably itself.

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REF

REF is a web studio based in Montreal.

Our team developed the studio’s complete visual identity and brand system. REF’s identity is rooted in the paradox of a “10-year-old startup,” a company with the agility of a new player and the discipline of a seasoned one. The system uses geometric perspective, anchoring everything around a modular square that pivots and transforms from 2D to 3D, illustrating how a single reference point can redefine an entire vision. Far from the monochrome standards of the industry, the aesthetic leans on the organic softness of greige and khaki, punctuated with sharp neon green. Between encyclopedic illustrations and jargon-free writing, the identity pairs intellectual rigour with digital agility, signalling a studio that thinks deeply but moves quickly.

The result is a human, high-performance brand that embodies its motto: Move fast, build to last.

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POP! Ou Rien

POP! OU RIEN (translated as “Pop or Nothing”) is a new cultural news magazine broadcast on Noovo, a major network in the French-speaking province of Quebec, Canada. Our team created the entire visual identity and motion design system.

The identity is built around a high-impact, print-magazine-inspired system. From the bold custom masthead logo to the vibrant colours and dramatic layouts, every element is engineered for maximum visual punch. A custom highlight effect flashes across the typography, echoing paparazzi cameras to add an undeniable layer of pop glamour. The motion principles bridge Y2K-era tabloids, traditional journalism and digital feeds, blending classic newsroom tickers with social media’s vertical scrolling, while letters animate sequentially like real-time typing.

We delivered a scalable toolkit of flexible motion templates including intros, outros, titles and transitions, empowering the production team to remain fully autonomous and rapidly package daily cultural news within a cohesive, highly stylized brand.

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3D Work Collection

This collection brings together a range of 3D work spanning modelling, texturing, lighting and animation, produced across commercial and brand projects. Each piece demonstrates a different facet of the craft, from photoreal product rendering to stylized 3D illustration.

Watier, a premium beauty brand, needed a product launch built around its serum: a 3D simulation and animation of the bottle, rendered to capture the material precision and refinement the product stands for.

Lithion Technologies, a Quebec startup recycling lithium-ion batteries to recover critical minerals, used 3D to support a rebrand, translating an industrial, sustainability-driven story into polished visuals.

Il Teatro, an Italian restaurant, called for a warmer, more atmospheric treatment, using light and texture to evoke the mood of the space.

Loto-Québec needed a series of 3D illustrations to represent its casino spaces across every location, building a consistent visual language at scale while supporting a responsible-play approach.

And the Canadian Space Agency’s rebrand brought its logo into real-world context, rendered onto a spacefaring rover to ground the new identity in a tangible setting.

Across all five, 3D became the medium for telling each brand’s story, adapting tone, material and technique to the demands of each project while holding a consistent standard of polish and detail.