Raphael Lacoste

Raphael Lacoste is an Art Director on Assassin's Creed Revelations.

Biography
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. He worked then for Kalisto Entertainment as senior Background Artist. In 2002 he was contacted by Ubisoft to work as Art Director on “Prince of Persia The Sands Of Time”. Now after the release of this Awarded Game, he is working as Art Director in the Cinematic Department of Ubisoft Montreal. His role on Assassin's Creed Revelations is that of Senior Concept Artist, Matte painter and production designer for both the in-game footage and the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Embers film. He is skilled particularly in environments, moods, picture composition and lighting.

Trivia

 * Raphael Lacoste has been now Art director on Videogames and Cinematics (CG) for more than 7 years, he worked at Ubisoft on such licences as Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed.


 * He had teachers like René Laloux, Director of "Time masters", "Gandahar", "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.