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Luis R.

Luis R.

Senior 3D Artist | UE5 & Cinematic Renders | Creatures & Products

🔥 Senior 3D Artist | UE5 Game Assets & Product Renders | Creatures for Games & Marketing 📍 Based in Cali, Colombia | 🕒 Available Now | ⏳ EST Timezone 🎮 What Can I Do for Your Project? Hi! I’m Luis Restrepo, a Senior 3D Artist with 6+ years of experience bringing worlds, characters, and creatures to life. I lead a 3D modeling team delivering game-ready creatures & assets for U.S. clients, optimized for Unreal Engine 5 & Unity with PBR workflows. 🚀 I help developers and studios level up their visual impact with highly optimized, game-ready art — functional, stunning, and ready for Unreal Engine 5 and Unity. 🧠 My Core Specialties 🎮 Games & Interactive Projects 🔧 Unreal Engine 5 Expertise: Nanite, Lumen, and seamless integration pipelines 🦖 Creature modeling (stylized & realistic) – dragons, beasts, monsters, hybrids 🧙‍♂️ Character creation – anatomical accuracy + clean topology 🛡️ Modular systems – armor sets, interchangeable gear 🧩 Game-ready assets – LODs, clean UVs, PBR workflows, baking & optimization 🎯 Technical integration for UE5 and Unity 🧪 Cinematic animations & in-game cutscenes 🏢 Brands, Startups & Product Visualization 📦 Product modeling for crowdfunding and promotional use 🎞️ Explanatory & promotional 3D animations (stylized or technical) 📸 High-quality renders for marketing, Amazon listings, and social media 🚀 Concept development & 3D visualization for prototypes and ads 🛠️ Tools I Master: 🔹 ZBrush (sculpting & high-frequency detail) 🔹 Maya & Blender (retopo, rig-ready meshes) 🔹 Substance Painter/Designer (advanced PBR texturing) 🔹 Unreal Engine 5 (Nanite, Lumen, integration pipelines) 🔹 Marmoset Toolbag (baking & final presentation) 🔹 Agile/Scrum workflows & technical supervision 💻 Professional Hardware for High-Performance Workflows: ⚙️ RTX 3070 | Ryzen 7 | 64 GB RAM 🖥️ XP-Pen Artist 15.6 Pro display tablet with tilt stand 📶 Stable connection (100 Mbps+) 🏆 Why Clients Choose Me: ✅ Top Rated on Upwork ✅ Certified in ZBrush, Unreal Engine 5, and Artistic Anatomy ✅ 5★ consistency across multiple projects ✅ Highly responsive & deadline-oriented ✅ Strong technical leadership in remote teams 💬 Client Testimonials: ⭐ "Luis absolutely crushed it. Delivered fast, clean, and with extra polish!" ⭐ "Exceeded expectations. Great eye for detail and very proactive." ⭐ "His creature work is next-level. A perfect mix of artistry and tech." 🎯 Best Fit For: 🎮 Indie & AAA games with custom creatures/characters 🧱 Modular gear or equipment systems 📦 UE5 or Unity integration 🧪 Stylized race/species exploration 🐉 Dragons, mutations, bosses, supernatural entities 👉 Click ‘Invite to Job’ or ‘Send Message’ on my Upwork profile – Let’s discuss your project!

🇨🇴Cali, Colombia$30/hr100% JSS4.76 (47)Since Apr 2017

Earnings and projects

MRR
$0

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#137,723 / 412k
🇨🇴Country#1,447 / 4,578
Revenue, last 30 days
$0
Total earnings
$21k

Billed in all: $21k

World#137,723 / 412k
🇨🇴Country#1,447 / 4,578
Per project
$371
Projects, last 6 months
0
World#209,857 / 412k
🇨🇴Country#2,282 / 4,578
Projects in all
56

Across 63 contracts

89% fixed11% hourly
World#54,552 / 412k
🇨🇴Country#235 / 4,578

Earnings, last 30 days

$20.9kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$20,500$20,750$21,000$21,250Oct 9Oct 24Nov 8

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