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LeaMotion in Motion<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Lea Sabban, known by her Instagram handle LeaMotion, is driven by her passion for creativity – which she wants to pass along, teaching others and sharing her knowledge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018An object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.\u2019 Sir Isaac Newton quite possibly was foreshadowing the fate of Lea Sabban, aka, LeaMotion on Instagram<\/a>. In just 7 years, Lea has become one of the most sought after, and influential digital content creators in VFX – and on Instagram, amassing over 124,00 followers and attracting celebrity global corporate clients from every corner of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But just 7 years ago, Lea was working an ordinary job, living the 9-to-5. Until one day at work, Lea was in the break room getting some water, and got an idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur company always stocked the fridge with this brand of water called \u2018Hint.\u2019 And it gave me an idea. So I brought some home and made a stop motion video with them. On a whim, I decided to send it to the brand just to see what might happen. Well they responded! Coincidentally they were going to be in NYC doing an event and asked if I would like to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s how it started. The force that set Lea in motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI went to the event and met the brand manager from Hint and he told me there was someone there I should meet – none other than Sam Sheffer of YouTube and social media fame! He introduced me to Sam telling him, \u2018you\u2019re going to love what Lea\u2019s doing!\u2019 So we decided then and there to do some kind of collab where I would create some VFX for him. It was that fateful meeting that got things started! Sam and I did four videos together and he posted them to his account, which gave me instant visibility to all of his followers. But then I couldn\u2019t believe what happened next.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Born in France and currently living in New York City with her family, Lea considers herself a video technique addict, and for as long as she can remember, she\u2019s had a strong passion for anything video-related: stop motion, cinemagraph, green screen, object levitation, you name it. So here she was, on the threshold of what felt like the beginning of something new, when something \u2018strange happened.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo weeks after Sam posted my video, I got an email from Will Smith\u2019s manager! He was launching his own water brand, he had seen my work and loved the levitating effects I had done and wanted that same effect for his brand launch! I thought the email was fake, but it was very real!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“It got so busy so quickly, I decided to start my own production company on the side. I was doing work for Broadway shows, Foot Locker promotions, and videos for Reese Witherspoon! It was surreal!”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n Lea Sabban aka LeaMotion<\/cite>\n <\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBut it gets better. When I completed the video, I thought the brand was just going to post it to their channel. But Will Smith posted it to his personal feed and tagged me! I immediately racked up five thousand new followers overnight, and suddenly, job requests were coming in from everywhere! It got so busy so quickly, I decided to start my own production company on the side. I was doing work for Broadway shows, Foot Locker promotions, and videos for Reese Witherspoon! It was surreal!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFast forward to last year; I decided to change formats. I realized that one thing that drove my creative passion was the desire to learn new things. If you tell me I can do an effect with a single click, I\u2019m not interested. I want to dive deep and explore. I had been working primarily in Adobe Premiere and After Effects, but I decided I wanted to learn Blender and 3D modeling. With Blender, I\u2019m just a beginner so I\u2019m still learning. But one thing I learned very quickly was, using a MacBook Pro, even the smallest renders took forever, and my system was constantly freezing up. I started to learn the limitations of my MacBook. And that\u2019s where Puget Systems came in. I have a lot of friends who are working with Blender, and they immediately recommended Puget Systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Puget Systems: Guiding the Way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t want to have to think about the hardware. And the great thing for me about Puget Systems is that I don\u2019t have to be a hardware expert. They took care of everything. And installation was fast and easy – which I was nervous about because I\u2019ve been a Mac person all my life, I\u2019d never used a PC before!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DJ Bailey from Puget Systems took the call from Lea. As a Subject Matter Expert at Puget System, DJ brings deep experience and perspective to these types of situations, so when Lea reached out, he knew what to do! DJ recalls the conversation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLea came to us as a long-time MacOS user, and for her work in Post Production and VFX using Premiere Pro and After Effects, this was fine. However, Lea was at a point in her career where she wanted to start exploring 3D design, as well as all the AI tools being made available in a whole bunch of different contexts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately for Lea\u2019s situation, both of these use cases were poorly suited to her Mac. Taking her current use case into consideration, along with the new workflows she wanted to start immersing herself in, an idea of what sort of system would be best suited to her needs was already starting to formulate in DJ\u2019s head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe would need a strong graphics card both for good rendering performance in 3D design, but also for the unknown variety of AI applications she wanted to test. Due to the complexity of some of her After Effects compositions, as well as the reality that Lea would likely need to multitask on her system at times and have multiple applications operating simultaneously, I also wanted to make sure she had plenty of system memory, so we opted for 128GB.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, the platform choice itself (the motherboard and CPU) needed to be made. This was a tough decision, with merits from several platforms shining, depending on the workflow being considered. At the end of the day, the Intel Core i9 14900K and a Z790 motherboard won out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe standout considerations for selecting this platform were twofold. First, with Lea’s work in Premiere and After Effects still being a primary consideration, Intel’s Quick Sync feature, and the improvements it affords to encoding and decoding performance, could not be ignored. And second, the 14900K offers a great balance of uncompromising clock speed, while still touting 8 full performance cores, and 16 additional efficiency cores to assist with multi-threaded tasks that are more effectively parallelized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with that, Lea\u2019s new Puget Systems workstation was finalized!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“My Puget Systems workstation was a game changer! …What took literally 15 hours to render on my MacBook Pro took minutes on my new system.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n Lea Sabban aka LeaMotion<\/cite>\n <\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The New Configuration Powering LeaMotion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cMy Puget Systems workstation was a game changer! I actually made a video about this experience; the difference in rendering time was astounding. What took literally 15 hours to render on my MacBook Pro took minutes on my new system. The time I was saving was simply amazing! I was able to become so much more productive and create so much more, so much faster!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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