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Bio:

Raphael Lacoste lives in Canada, Montreal, with wife and son since 2002. He was born in 1974 in Paris, but lived mostly around Bordeaux, south west of France until he left for Canada.

He studied in 1993 at Fine Arts school, Art and Media option, Photography and Video, at the same time, he was photographer and composer for a theatre company “les Pygmalions”. He was already attracted by the scenery, mood and lighting. The company gave him the opportunity in 1997 to work on “the little Prince” of St Exupéry, he did there his first 3D pictures that were projected on giant screens with Pani 6KW projectors, Raphael was also the screening coordinator.

Later in 1998, he went to CNBDI school (in Angouleme, France) and got a European Master of Art in 3D animation, his movie Nîumb was screened at Siggraph 2000, Imagina 2000, and Anima mundi 2001. He had teachers like René Laloux, Director of Time masters, Gandahar, and Fantastic Planet. Raphael was very impressed by the work of his teacher and learned a bit of his knowledge.

Raphael Lacoste has been now Art director on Videogames and Cinematics (CG) for more than 7 years, he worked at Ubisoft on such licenses as Prince of Persia and Assassin’s Creed. He won a VES Award in February 2006 for his work as Art Director on Prince of Persia the Two Thrones Cinematics. He was also VES nominee for Assassin’s Creed E3 CG trailer in 2007. His Focus now is to work as Concept Artist, Matte painter and production designer for Film. He is enjoying to work particularly on environments, moods, picture composition and lighting.

Raphael has been working as concept Artist for the upcoming movie, Journey To The Center of The Earth 3D (2008). He joined the VFX company RodeoFX in Montreal in October 2007, where he recently worked for Annie Leibovitz Disney’s parks Promotion.

Profile:

• Current Age: 33
• Current Residence: Montreal, Canada
• Interests: hiking, photo, illustration, traveling…
• Favourite movie: brazil, babel, the fountainhead, blade runner, night of the iguana, le jour se lève (Daybreak), quai des brûmes (Port of Shadows).
• Favourite band or musician: cinematic orchestra, bach, vivaldi, EST, keith Jarrett
• Favourite artist: Caspard David Friedrich, Bierstadt, Lionel Walden, corot
• Favourite poet or writer: platon
• Favourite photographer: lyne cohen, edward burtynsky …and so many others
• Favourite style or digital art: romantic, landscape, impressionism, 19th century

Homepage: http://www.raphael-lacoste.com