Raphael Lacoste

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[[File:ACR_Raphael_Lacoste_ArtDirector.jpg|thumb|200px|Raphael Lacoste - Art Director on ''Assassin's Creed: Revelations''.]]

'''Raphael Lacoste''' is an Art Director on ''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations|Assassin's Creed: Revelations]].''

==Biography==
Lacoste was born in Paris in 1974. After a few years working as photographer and composer for a theatre company, he went to the animation school of the National centre of the comic strip in Angoulême, France, to learn Softimage. He did there his first short movie “''Nîumb''” which was screened at Siggaph, Imagina and anima-mundi 2000.

He worked then for Kalisto Entertainment as senior background artist. In 2002 he was contacted by [[Ubisoft]] to work as an art director on “''Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time''”. Lacoste went on to work on such titles as ''Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'', winning a VES Award in February 2006 for his work on the "''Two Thrones''" cut scene. Wanting to challenge himself in the film industry, Lacoste stepped away from the game industry to work as a matte painter and senior concept artist on such feature films as: ''Terminator Salvation'', ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'', ''Death Race'', and ''Repo Men''.

As of 2009, Lacoste has returned to the video game industry, working as a senior art director for EA, and again at Ubisoft Montreal on the Assassin's Creed series. His role on ''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' is Art Director.

==Trivia==
*Lacoste has been now Art Director on Videogames and Cinematics (CG) for more than 7 years.
*He had teachers like René Laloux, the director of "''Time Masters''", "''Gandahar''", and "''Fantastic Planet''". Raphael was very impressed by the work of his teacher and has stated that he was his main inspiration to moving into the computer game industry.
*His nickname at Ubisoft is Raph.
*He is skilled particularly in environments, moods, picture composition and lighting.

==Gallery==
<center><gallery captionalign="left">
North_Kingdom_R.Lacoste.jpg|Original New Kingdom Concept in Assassin's Creed (both hand drawn and digital manipulated by Lacoste).
gnomonRaphphoto.JPG|Journey, personal work.
</gallery></center>

==External links==
*[http://www.raphael-lacoste.com/acceuil.html Raphael Lacoste]'s Official Website.
*[http://raph.com/3dartists/artgallery/ag-jury.html Raphael Lacoste]'s profile at the 3D Artist website.
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2900037/bio Raphael Lacoste]'s profile on the internet movie database.

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Raphael Lacoste

2011-08-24T02:23:11Z

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{{era|Realworld}}{{stub}} Raphael Lacoste is an Art Director on [[Assassin's Creed Revelations|Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]. [[File:ACR_Raphael_Lacoste_ArtDirector.jpg|thumb|210px|Raphael Lacoste - AC:R Art Director.]]

==Biography==
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Raphael Lacoste was born in Paris in 1974. After a few years working as photographer and composer for a theatre company, he went to the animation school of the National centre of the comic strip in Angoulême, France, to learn Softimage. He did there his first short movie “''Nîumb''” which was screened at Siggaph, Imagina and anima-mundi 2000.</p>

Raphael Lacoste was the Art Director at Ubisoft on such titles as Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed, winning a VES Award in February 2006 for his work on the "Two Thrones" cut scene from Prince of Persia. Wanting to challenge himself in the film industry, Raphael stepped away from the game industry to work as a Matte Painter and Senior Concept Artist on such feature films as: Terminator Salvation, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Death Race, and Repo Men. As of 2009, Raphael has returned to the video game industry, working as a Senior Art Director for EA, and now at Ubisoft montreal back on AC brand.

==Trivia==
*Raphael Lacoste has been now Art Director on Videogames and Cinematics (CG) for more than 7 years, and he has worked at Ubisoft on such licences as Prince of Persia and ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''.
*He had teachers like René Laloux, the director of "Time Masters", "Gandahar", and "Fantastic Planet". Raphael was very impressed by the work of his teacher and has stated that he was his main inspiration to moving into the computer game industry.
*He won a VES Award in February 2006 for his work as Art Director on Prince of Persia the Two Thrones Cinematics.
*His nickname at Ubisoft is Raph.

==Gallery==

<center><gallery>
North_Kingdom_R.Lacoste.jpg|Original New Kingdom Concept in Assassin's Creed (both hand drawn and digital manipulated by Lacoste).
</gallery></center>

==External links==
*[http://www.raphael-lacoste.com/acceuil.html Raphael Lacoste]Official Website
*[http://raph.com/3dartists/artgallery/ag-jury.html Raphael Lacoste]at the 3D Artist website
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2900037/bio Raphael Lacoste]profile on the internet movie database

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