Leo Esteves — Art Director

Leo Esteves is an Art Director based in Germany, featured in the Art of Styleframe library of motion design and visual design talent. This profile aggregates selected works documented in the gallery alongside attribution links back to the artist's own portfolio for verified context.

Leo's portfolio spans CHAMPIONS league FINAL, Death PROOF, DONNIE darko, KURDAITCHA among other commissions; the 14 selections indexed here each carry attribution straight back to the studio that made them. Titles in the gallery below include LES83MACHINES 2025, TRON ARES PROLOGUE, AMAZON THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, NIKE x ROCKET LEAGUE, among others, each opening on the original artist source rather than rehosted media.

For the complete picture, Leo keeps work at les83machines.com, and we treat those as the canonical record rather than duplicating them here. There's a reason we anchor Leo to Germany and to specific works instead of vague trend labels: the specifics are the part worth keeping.

Leo Esteves is an Art Director based in Germany, featured in the Art of Styleframe library. He publishes under the name les83machines, and his site describes a Cinema 4D and Redshift practice built around commercial animation.

Who he is

Two threads run through this portfolio and they don't look much alike. The first is product and sports advertising: Motorola handsets, the Amazon Kindle Colorsoft, Under Armour NFL, Rolls Royce, Nike. Several of those were made in partnership with Los York, which the project titles state outright. The second thread is title design study, and it's older. A run of style frames for Death Proof, Nightcrawler and The Purge Anarchy came out of Ash Thorp's main title design course on Learn Squared, and Esteves says so in his own project notes.

Portfolio highlights

CHAMPIONS league FINAL The idea was to use the Berlin bear illustration from the CL Ball, bring it to life and mix with the Berlin urban art and graffiti scene, to create a fresh and different approach to sports promotion.
Under the mentorship of Ash Thorp on learnsquared for the main title design course we developed the style frames for DEATH PROOF.
Under the mentorship of Ash Thorp on learnsquared for the Main title design course, we developed these style frames.
KURDAITCHA
Under the mentorship of Ash Thorp on learnsquared for the main title design course we developed these style frames, for NIGHTCRAWLER.
SR.AVILA HBO working with FEELS and commissioned by HBO LATIN AMERICA for the new season of SR. AVILA , I created the style frames using the ideas of life and death.
STARWARS For this project, I was in charge of the design and animation of one of the main channel IDs, and also styleframes for different parts of the channel structure.
THE PURGE anarchy Under the mentorship of Ash Thorp on learnsquared We worked together on the Main Title Design course to develop these style frames.
TOCA ME Inspired by the last moment before the spark of creativity, the real meaning of "toca-me" FEATURED SPEAKERS gmunk // joshua davis // seb lester // keiichi matsuda mario klingemann /

Selected projects

The 2025 reel sits at the front of the site, with the Tron Ares prologue and the Amazon Thursday Night Football package behind it. Nike x Rocket League is the most recent brand crossover. Quiet Mechanics and Magnetic Mechanics are the self-directed pieces, and they're the ones that explain the rest: hard-surface modelling, controlled light, almost no colour. The Art of Styleframe archive holds his earlier broadcast work too, including the Champions League final promo that mixed the competition's Berlin bear with the city's graffiti scene, the Sky Star Wars channel IDs, and the style frames for HBO Latin America's Sr. Avila.