About

My name is Leonardo Amora Leite. I was born in 1976 and have worked in the visual arts since 1995, in a world without internet, where learning meant books the size of a bible, and we actually called them that: the 3D Studio Bible. You read it at night, tested it the next morning, and when it did not work, nobody was coming to help. You read it again. I edited more TV commercials than I could ever count, a few films among them, two of those shot on 35mm film for cinema. I worked on animation with a rostrum camera, that vertical film camera that takes one frame at a time. And I will not rewind too far, but you should know my very first profession was construction worker. After a start that intense, I moved to Porto Alegre, where my career in video games truly began. 2005.

There I joined Southlogic Studios, the first game companies in Brazil, as illustrator, concept artist and finally game designer. Our main title, Deer Hunter, published by Atari, was a great success. Later, while working for Ubisoft, our studio developed a game for the Nintendo DS called Wedding Designer. I was the game designer and illustrator on it, and that project gave me my first real experience with pixel art inside the games industry. And guess what! It sold over one million copies, lucky? I don’t know, but, the Ubisoft went on to acquire our studio, which became Ubisoft Brazil. You can read more about that journey here. here!

In January 2011 I founded amoraleite.com, a studio devoted to art, design and game development. Since then I have won five national awards in game development and entrepreneurship. As Art Director I have illustrated and art directed dozens of commercial games, children’s books and board games for some of the largest companies in Brazil. As an independent developer I have created around 35 games, every one of them an original IP, and the list keeps growing. Fifteen years, hundreds of projects, thousands of drawings, and every single one of them started as a blank page. Below you can take a look at some of them.

What can I do for you?
Entire GAMES, ART DIRECTION, exclusive digital ASSETS for your game or project, cool GAME DESIGN, creativity IDEAS for your game or project became more fun and viral! VIDEOS to promote your games or your project. BOOKS and APPS Let my imagination upgrade your project!

Contact me, I’ll be happy to answer all your questions. Let’s buld something powerfull!

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin. 

Nintendo was my school. The books were my teachers. The rest I got wrong until it worked.

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