Paulo C.
AI VIDEO MASTER | Realistic AI Video Director | AI Commercials & Films
25+ years in television and streaming, with work for Televisa, TV Azteca, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. Now I direct AI. AI commercials and films that look shot on real cameras, not generated. Big-studio quality at a freelancer's price. My best reels live in a private vault. Message me the word VAULT and I'll send the ones that fit your project within the hour. Available now, with immediate replies worldwide. ━━━━━━━━━━━ There are two kinds of AI video: the kind that is generated, and the kind that is directed. Your audience can tell the difference in three seconds. I don't generate content. I direct cinema. ━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗥 𝗔𝗗𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘 Honed over 25+ years of live television, where there is no second take, my eye now directs AI. In every frame, that experience decides the light, the camera and the rhythm. Rare is the director who masters both worlds: anyone can generate, almost no one can direct. Every deadline is an order. I'm a military veteran who has won harder battles than your launch date, so consider yours already won. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗦 ✦ Networks: Televisa, TV Azteca and Ecuador's leading channels ✦ Formats: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Got Talent and Popstars in their Ecuadorian editions, plus Operación Triunfo ✦ Pageants: Miss Ecuador and Miss Universe ✦ Streaming: Amazon Prime Video, plus projects for Netflix ✦ YouTube: SEO and growth for major channels, with the formula that turns viewers into subscribers ✦ Government: productions for top state institutions and leadership of communications departments ✦ AI: 100% Job Success Score on Upwork across 19 contracts and 840+ hours, including a brand film series for an international investment firm, a 35-character AI universe and launch films for e-commerce brands in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗨𝗠 𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗚𝗘𝗧 ✦ Commercials for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and TV, with several hooks ready to test ✦ Cinematic brand films that make people feel your brand, not just see it ✦ Luxury product films for watches, jewelry, cars, fashion and real estate ✦ Real people on screen: real skin, real hands, real light ✦ The same face in every scene and every film ✦ AI music videos with the artist identical in every frame ✦ Documentaries and art films made to order ✦ Complete campaigns: one main film plus 15, 9 and 6-second versions 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡 ✦ Meta (Facebook and Instagram): Reels and Stories in vertical 9:16, Feed in 4:5 ✦ YouTube: ads in 16:9 and Shorts in vertical 9:16 ✦ TikTok: vertical 9:16, built to win the first seconds ✦ Sharp 1080p for social media, 4K and 8K for television and cinema 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗪𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 1. You send your idea. Within 24 hours you get a written plan with deliverables, revisions and dates. 2. You approve the look first: I send key frames of your film before production starts. 3. I direct and produce every shot, and grade the color in DaVinci Resolve. 4. You receive your film ready for every screen your campaign needs. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞 ▸ Direction and characters: Higgsfield Cinema Studio 4.0, Soul 2.0, Soul Cinema, Popcorn, Canvas, Soul ID Character, AI Influencer, Photodump, Relight, Inpaint, Draw to Edit, Fashion Factory ▸ Video engines: Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Kling 3.0 Turbo, Google Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Wan 3.0, MiniMax Hailuo 3, HappyHorse, Grok Imagine 1.5 ▸ Motion and editing: Kling 3.0 Motion Control, Kling 3.0 Omni, Vibe Motion, Recast Studio, Lipsync Studio, Draw to Video, Sketch to Video, Higgsfield Animate, Video Upscale ▸ Finishing: Magnific (Upscaler, Video Upscaler, Relight, Spaces), Topaz ▸ Image: GPT Image 2.5, Seedream 5.0 Pro, Nano Banana Pro, Nano Banana 2, Recraft V4.1, FLUX.2, Grok Imagine Image 2.0, Z-Image ▸ 3D: Cinema 4D, Blender, 3ds Max ▸ Adobe Creative Cloud: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, Media Encoder, Substance 3D, Frame io, Character Animator ▸ Broadcast finishing: DaVinci Resolve, Nuke, Avid Media Composer ▸ Voice and music: ElevenLabs, Suno, Udio, Artlist, Higgsfield Speak ▸ Avatars: HeyGen, Arcads, Creatify, Character Swap, Face Swap 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘 Send me one sentence about the film you want, or just the word VAULT. We start with a small first milestone on Upwork, so your payment and my work are both protected. In 24 to 48 hours you will see two or three frames of your film. If they don't move you, walk away with no hard feelings. If they do, that milestone goes toward your film, and your search for a director is over. Paulo Castillo, AI Video Master. Founder of Adobetime and The Vector Lab. I see what others miss. I direct what others only generate. Specialties: AI commercial director, AI video editor, AI video ads, YouTube ads, Meta ads, Facebook ads, TikTok ads, Instagram Reels and product videos.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $12k
Billed in all: $22,154$22k
$2.5k in the last 6 months
Across 6 contracts
Across 23 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 2% in Digital Art
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