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Felipe V.

Award-Winning Art Director | Creative Director | Concept Artist

Versatile, award-winning concept artist and character designer. I've collaborated with Mastercard, Sesame Street, and Grupo Modelo. I work in video games, animation, comics, and children's book illustration. WORKING WITH YOUR TEAM I know indie and mid-sized studio pipelines. I give your 3D modelers and animators clear, technically sound concepts they can build from directly. For authors and publishers, I design characters and illustrate stories that stay consistent from the first page to the last. ART DIRECTION I define the visual direction of a project and guide other artists to deliver it. CORE EXPERTISE - Character Design: protagonists, NPC variety, turnarounds, expression sheets - Concept Art & Visual Development: keyframe art, mood, lighting, color scripts - Children's Book Illustration: full picture books, covers, character consistency across spreads - Comics & Graphic Novels: character consistency, page layout, sequential storytelling - Narrative Art: storyboarding for cinematics and environmental storytelling - Prop & Asset Design: detailed orthographics for game objects and architecture - Creature Design: anatomy-based monster and animal concepts - Style range: cartoon, stylized, and semi-realistic, matched to your project's identity PRODUCTION WORKFLOW 1. Ideation & Thumbnails: fast iterations to find the right direction 2. Refinement: polishing silhouettes and color palettes 3. Final Delivery: high-res, layered files or technical sheets ready for production I send a status update at every milestone. All art is human-made. I don't use AI generation. RECOGNITION - Secuenciarte Award, Pixelatl Festival: "The Metamorphosis of The Metamorphosis" - Official Selection, International Residency Guadalajara: "The Children from Nowhere" - Best Short Film and Best Director, Tamatan International Film Festival: "It's on the House" TOOLS Photoshop, Procreate, Illustrator, InDesign Send your brief or reference art and I'll reply with next steps.

🇲🇽Ciudad Madero, Mexico$45/hr100% JSS4.98 (127)Since Dec 2014
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$2.7k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#14,984 / 412k
🇲🇽Country#183 / 3,563
Revenue, last 30 days
$2.7k

Last 6 months: $16k

World#14,446 / 412k
🇲🇽Country#182 / 3,563
Total earnings
$148k

Billed in all: $149k

World#24,080 / 412k
🇲🇽Country#195 / 3,563
Per project
$713

$895 in the last 6 months

World#151,205 / 412k
🇲🇽Country#1,310 / 3,563
Projects, last 6 months
18
78% fixed22% hourly
World#7,230 / 412k
🇲🇽Country#29 / 3,563
Projects in all
207

Across 218 contracts

80% fixed20% hourly
World#9,417 / 412k
🇲🇽Country#49 / 3,563

Earnings, last 30 days

$149k+$2.7k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$144k$146k$148k$150kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 0.62% in Painting

Top 1% in 4 of 14 skills, ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. 3Painting482 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 0.62%
  2. 3Advertising Illustration132 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 2%
  3. #5Visual Art531 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 0.94%
  4. #5Children's Literature418 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 1%
  5. #13Procreate1,451 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 0.90%
  6. #13Cartoon Character1,095 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 1%
  7. #16Comic Art1,172 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #2Top 1%
  8. #19Storybook573 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 3%