WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.560 Oh, you can scoot a little bit to the left, please. A little bit. 00:00:03.560 --> 00:00:06.680 Left, not right, right? Oh, sorry, my left, sorry, my left, my left. 00:00:06.680 --> 00:00:10.720 I'm Sebastian, and I work for Creator Warehouse. All right, Sebastian, before we start, 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:13.920 give me two truths and a lie. I've been to every continent. 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:17.480 I'm mind blind, and I have over a dozen tattoos. 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:21.000 Mind blind? Yeah, I can't see anything in my brain. It's just a blank slate. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.720 I think I know which one it is, but we'll figure out as we go through these questions here. 00:00:25.720 --> 00:00:28.880 All right, so the first question is, what do you do at Creator Warehouse? 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:33.040 I'm one of the product designers. I've worked on a few of the projects you probably know, 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:38.440 Precision Screwdriver, ScribeDriver, and FidgetSpinner. I feel like that's a project that you just kind of think of, 00:00:38.440 --> 00:00:42.000 but you never actually do it, but at this company, it's like... 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.200 Surprisingly, that's the project that took the longest to work on. 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.760 Really? Out of all of those. How long did each take, roughly? 00:00:48.760 --> 00:00:53.560 Precision, I started as soon as I started. It was in the first week I was assigned it, 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:56.560 and it came out about a year after, 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:02.320 a year and a half. Ten was pretty quick, from idea to being released was under a year. 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:08.120 It was dropped and picked up a bunch of times. So I worked on it a bit, Justin worked on it a bit. 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.160 Rob actually had some really good ideas with it, and then it came back to me. 00:01:11.160 --> 00:01:16.280 So it was actually probably like two years plus. Oh, okay, that makes sense, yeah. 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:21.680 Yeah, sometimes the small ones take longer. So then how long have you been at Creator Warehouse for? 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.720 Almost three years now. You started around the same time as me then. 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:29.080 When did you start? November 2022. So I was end of November. 00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:32.760 Oh, that's crazy. It feels so much longer than that, 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:36.880 and at the same time, it's only three years. Yeah, no, I think it's everybody. 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:40.200 It's only been two years, or they're like, wow, it feels longer 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:44.400 than two years, everything. What kind of hobbies are you into? I like making stuff. 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:47.480 I like playing video games. Who would've thought? I know, shocking. 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:52.200 Is there any cool projects that you've done on your own free time? One of the projects actually I worked on 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:55.520 to get hired here was I built a keyboard from scratch. 00:01:55.520 --> 00:01:59.400 I wanted to learn a little bit of electronics, so I designed the PCB myself, 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:04.840 and then I also wanted to do some stupid stuff, so I anodized the aluminum top plate myself, 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.680 just on our deck. You say you play games, what kind of games do you play right now? 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:12.680 I've been playing some RuneScape. RuneScape, oh, the classic? I got hooked last year. 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:16.200 My one RuneScape story is I got hacked on RuneScape. 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:20.760 It's because I was like five, or like eight, whatever it was, and then they wanted to trade accounts, 00:02:20.760 --> 00:02:25.480 and I gave my password, and then I lost my count. That's how I learned how to, 00:02:25.480 --> 00:02:29.080 type back in the day. Wait, by what? 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:33.040 Selling stuff. Really? Yeah, I didn't know how to touch type before, 00:02:33.040 --> 00:02:38.120 and then that's what taught me 20 years ago. What made you interested in your role? 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:41.160 In my role? When you saw the application for it, 00:02:41.160 --> 00:02:44.880 did you want to work on it because you thought the things you could do is interesting, 00:02:44.880 --> 00:02:50.440 or did you want to work at the company? I think it was a little bit of both, actually. 00:02:50.440 --> 00:02:54.440 I didn't realize that LTT was local to Vancouver. 00:02:54.480 --> 00:02:58.320 I saw one of the videos and realized, oh, that's a beach I recognize. 00:02:58.320 --> 00:03:02.760 So that made it more interesting. The Alex-type videos, the shop videos, 00:03:02.760 --> 00:03:09.160 those were the ones that I was actually interested in watching. And then when there was a job posting for product designer, 00:03:09.160 --> 00:03:12.280 lines up with my background and stuff, 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.360 and I was like, I'll shoot an application. 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:19.400 Didn't hear for like five months and then got a call. I didn't know it was local either. 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:23.440 I thought it was LA-based. Yeah, it was completely like, I thought it was somewhere else, 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:28.160 and then I saw, I think it was like Jericho Beach or something, and I was like, wait a sec, I don't recognize that. 00:03:28.160 --> 00:03:31.720 So how's working at LMG? It's been a lot of fun. There's good things, there's bad things, 00:03:31.720 --> 00:03:36.080 but now the team is amazing. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:40.200 It's a lot of fun. I think the last three people kept saying 00:03:40.200 --> 00:03:44.960 that the people make the company so fun. It sounds like a PR answer every time, 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.600 but I think that's just the reality of the company. It's just everyone likes everybody here. 00:03:48.600 --> 00:03:51.600 This is gonna sound bad in some ways, 00:03:51.600 --> 00:03:55.920 but this is the first team where I feel average. Everyone is incredibly talented. 00:03:55.920 --> 00:03:59.000 It's reverse imposter syndrome, 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:03.640 where you feel like you belong, but everyone is really, really good at what they do, 00:04:03.640 --> 00:04:07.320 and you can learn off of each other, which is really fun, especially in a field 00:04:07.320 --> 00:04:10.640 which for product design, you're always learning from other people 00:04:10.640 --> 00:04:16.360 and different things. So being able to bounce ideas off and actually learn from your peers is awesome. 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:21.040 What's a weird story you have working at CW? I don't think it's specifically a weird story, 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:24.240 but I think the weirdest thing switching jobs to LMG 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:29.240 was going from being the youngest person on the team 00:04:29.640 --> 00:04:36.160 by a significant amount of time, and the youngest within where I was working 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:40.880 to being on the middle slash upper age of the whole company, 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:44.400 and just how young the company is, 00:04:44.400 --> 00:04:49.400 and just where my whole team is the same age. 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:53.040 There's three of us within six months. Who's the oldest in your group? 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:56.680 Kyle's the oldest. Kyle's grown up, he's an adult, man. 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.760 He's not even that, he's like three years older. Wait, what? Wait, how old's Kyle? 00:05:00.760 --> 00:05:04.080 I'm mid-thirties, something like that. Mid-late-thirties? How old are you? 00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:08.000 I'm 33. You're 33? Yeah. I think you're late twenties. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.000 No. What the frick? I don't know. It's the funny thing of like, 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:17.560 but also like our oldest and youngest on the whole company is like within 15 years. 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:22.480 There's a few outliers, but still. There's someone at the editing team who's like 21, 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:27.080 like 23, something like that. Yeah. So it's a, oh my, I didn't know you're 30, oh my God. 00:05:27.080 --> 00:05:30.240 I know. I thought you were 30, you're 20. I know, right? 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:34.320 Oh my God. But yeah, I think that's, I think the weirdest, 00:05:34.320 --> 00:05:39.280 that was the weirdest transition is going from like, oh yeah, the next oldest on your team is 10 years older 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:44.160 than your two, everyone's the same age. What's the hardest part about working at LMG? 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.720 Or, I guess I'm saying LMG, because it's CW. It's so weird to distinguish it. 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:52.400 Cause like, I think the way this company works, we're so intertwined, but we're not intertwined. 00:05:52.400 --> 00:05:59.040 Yeah. Like I definitely, I work for CW, but I just came from a scrum for LTT stuff 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.680 that I might be helping with. So it's everything's linked and different. 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.680 It's just kind of where you go back to. It's your little home within a home. 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:12.400 Hardest part working at CW. This actually one goes to more of the whole. 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:18.080 I think the, how public the company is. And I think that's the thing that's the most outside 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:22.280 of my normal skill set. Even the fact that doing an interview 00:06:22.280 --> 00:06:27.800 for all the Floatplane and stuff like that, or being in a video where your face gets seen 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:34.360 millions of times. I think that's the most outside of my normal skill set. 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:40.880 And it also comes with negatives, right? When something happens at the company, the public knows. 00:06:40.880 --> 00:06:46.480 It's not just this little thing that it's just in your world. It's you've got people from everywhere commenting 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:50.280 or not commenting. So, but it's also in some ways a good way. 00:06:50.280 --> 00:06:55.720 Like I've been able to go to open sauce and stuff like that where you wouldn't get to do that without being public. 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:59.080 So. What made you interested in like the making, 00:06:59.080 --> 00:07:03.480 product designing, like skill area? Did you like kind of just like fall into it? 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:08.720 A little bit of both. I kind of fell into it and I kind of, I guess knew. 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.320 I grew up taking stuff apart, figuring out 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.560 my dad's a computer science prof and he'd bring home, 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:20.120 like at one point he just brought home a printer that was not working anymore and we just took it apart. 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:25.320 I don't know how old I was at that time, but just kind of taking stuff apart, building stuff 00:07:25.320 --> 00:07:30.480 I've been doing for a long time. I went into university for physics, 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:36.680 realized I didn't like math anymore, dropped out and went into design. 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:42.520 So, we've got a bachelor of industrial design. It was kind of fluke, but also kind of made sense 00:07:42.520 --> 00:07:46.320 looking back, so. I feel like everyone's story is like, 00:07:46.320 --> 00:07:49.560 yeah, I took apart stuff to learn, which I didn't know was a thing. 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:52.640 Yeah. I've never heard of this until I started working here. 00:07:52.640 --> 00:07:57.920 I think it's when you tinker in your bakery and stuff like that, it works. 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:02.760 Like you get good at taking stuff apart way before you're good at putting it back together 00:08:02.760 --> 00:08:06.640 and having it work. Yeah, I just took apart stuff. I didn't, but I broke it though. 00:08:06.640 --> 00:08:10.000 And it was because I broke it, not because I wanted to figure it out. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:14.320 Yeah. All right. What's the coolest project then you got to work on? 00:08:14.320 --> 00:08:18.280 Just being involved in the product design, like the whole set part of it. 00:08:18.280 --> 00:08:22.360 So from like concept to mass production, I think that's the coolest thing. 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:28.760 So like for precision, I was basically given the idea of we want to make a precision, we want storage in it, 00:08:28.760 --> 00:08:32.160 but nothing else of the project really was fully defined. 00:08:32.160 --> 00:08:36.400 First part of it was basically defining what we wanted to do and then it's going through the process 00:08:36.400 --> 00:08:39.640 of designing the parts of it and then working with suppliers 00:08:39.640 --> 00:08:42.880 and actually like doing all of that. I think that's the coolest part, 00:08:42.880 --> 00:08:46.600 kind of seeing the idea turn into the physical good 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:50.160 and then getting it out to people. So then the precision should we ever, 00:08:50.160 --> 00:08:55.600 is the coolest project you got to work on? It's hard to kind of distinguish a lot of them 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:58.920 because all of them kind of they lean on each other. 00:08:58.920 --> 00:09:04.760 Precision's the longest one I've been working on just even with like post release. 00:09:04.760 --> 00:09:08.480 For quick projects, I think the mighty car mods, 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:11.520 that was probably one of the most fun shoots I've been part of. 00:09:11.520 --> 00:09:14.920 It was just a lot of fun and a lot of different parts moving together. 00:09:14.920 --> 00:09:18.880 What were your jobs prior to LMG then? So directly prior to LMG, 00:09:18.880 --> 00:09:22.200 I was working for the Provincial Health Services. What? 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:25.760 Yeah, I was making a custom seating for wheelchairs. 00:09:25.760 --> 00:09:28.880 So basically it was orthotics for your full body. 00:09:28.880 --> 00:09:33.080 Wow. Yeah, so I did that for about five years. 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.400 Four of them with the province and one year with a private company. 00:09:37.400 --> 00:09:42.480 Is that a, oh no, so it wasn't a government job then? It was a government job for when I was working with. 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:47.640 Yeah, you gave away a government job, that's crazy. Yeah, I gave away government to come to LMG. 00:09:47.640 --> 00:09:49.680 I don't know if that was the right choice or not. 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:55.680 Yeah, I don't know, are government jobs prestigious as well outside of Canada or is it just Canada? 00:09:55.680 --> 00:09:59.000 I don't know. There was a pension and all that stuff. 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:04.600 The problem was, even though it was custom and in some ways a very fulfilling job, 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:08.800 I was working with the children's hospital. It got to the point where it was just 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:12.240 the same thing over and over. Yeah. All right, you're still, you're making a custom seat. 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:17.240 It is slightly different for every single one of them, but you're still doing the same thing every time. 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:21.640 It didn't have the same brain itch that you have here. 00:10:21.640 --> 00:10:24.680 Sorry, do you mind a little bit to the left? A little bit. 00:10:24.680 --> 00:10:28.040 Oh, my left, sorry. Your left. Sorry. Oh, I love it to the right. 00:10:28.040 --> 00:10:31.480 Oh, you're so, to my left, right. Fuck it. I have a secret question for you. 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.000 Okay. It wasn't on this list that I gave you. Yeah. 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:38.120 What would you say is your least favorite product that you worked on then? 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:41.280 Ooh. Cause everyone has their favorite, but no one talks about the least favorite. 00:10:41.280 --> 00:10:44.680 This is a hard one because I don't want to unhype stuff. 00:10:44.680 --> 00:10:48.000 Well, it can be, it can be like a reason why I like, oh, like I think I've done this way better 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.720 or like I didn't know at this time and like it was a big mistake that I kind of hate 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:55.720 or it has to be like a reason just sucks. Like it still gave me a good product or something 00:10:55.720 --> 00:11:02.280 that you just personally don't like about it. I think one product that I would redo how it happened 00:11:02.280 --> 00:11:05.800 is the BitCase, which is coming soon. 00:11:05.800 --> 00:11:10.240 It might be out by the time this video comes out. Maybe, but that one has, 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:14.120 that has been one that has dragged along bounce between people and. 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:17.920 So what would you redo about it? I think if it just would be one of those things 00:11:17.920 --> 00:11:21.480 that when you've learned all the stuff you've been doing other stuff, 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:27.800 you would do it differently. I will say there is some exciting things for precision 00:11:27.800 --> 00:11:32.160 probably in the next couple of months that we will be doing some deep dive 00:11:32.160 --> 00:11:36.880 kind of in the behind the scenes where we're going to have a revision of it coming out. 00:11:36.880 --> 00:11:42.320 Wow. Yeah, and we'll actually be talking about some of the design decisions and why they happened, 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:46.800 which I think will be fun for FloatPlan and for the rest of people too. 00:11:46.800 --> 00:11:50.120 Kind of stuff where you could very easily just 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:56.040 do it as a ninja change and nobody would ever notice. It would still be a better product. 00:11:56.040 --> 00:12:00.720 Like we're not making stuff worse. We're making it better, but it's not noticeable. 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:04.040 So I think that it's going to be pretty cool to talk about that. 00:12:04.040 --> 00:12:07.760 Does that include the big case? No, that's just the precision. 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:11.200 Jump subject. Okay. Well, you think that could have gone better? 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:14.400 I think it would be out by now. 00:12:14.400 --> 00:12:17.720 It would be one of the things. I think there was, 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:21.600 we've done a lot of process changes over the years and I think it was one that kind of fell 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:25.600 through the cracks a bit. So it kind of got caught in limbo for a while 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:29.280 and stuff like that, but yeah. All right, guys. 00:12:29.280 --> 00:12:32.960 I think that's the most I can get out of Sebastian. I have to keep some secrets. 00:12:34.280 --> 00:12:37.800 All right, so going back to your two truths and a lie, 00:12:37.800 --> 00:12:40.840 do you want to say what they were again? And then I'm going to take a guess at it 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:44.040 and then you'll tell us which one is the lie. I've been to every continent. 00:12:45.040 --> 00:12:49.440 I am mind blind and I have over a dozen tattoos. 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:53.680 See, I meet looking at your arms when you said that. You don't have any tattoos on your arms. 00:12:53.680 --> 00:12:59.280 So my assumption is it's the tattoo, but I feel like it's the mind blind one. 00:12:59.280 --> 00:13:02.440 Somebody tells me it's a mind blind one, but I feel like it's actually the tattoo one. 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:05.640 So I'm going to say the tattoo one. You're actually wrong on both. What? 00:13:05.640 --> 00:13:10.280 Yeah. You haven't been to every continent? No, I haven't been to every continent. 00:13:10.280 --> 00:13:14.400 Yeah. And the mind blind one's funny because I work in a very visual field. 00:13:14.400 --> 00:13:18.240 Yeah. That's crazy. And 3D modeling is easy and all of that stuff. 00:13:18.280 --> 00:13:22.520 It's just, it's not visual in my brain. Can I see one of your tattoos? 00:13:22.520 --> 00:13:27.640 Oh, what the? Yeah, I know. So close. But now I've got a lot more undershirts. 00:13:27.640 --> 00:13:33.480 Thanks for watching. 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