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Raphaël Lacoste is a Senior Art Director and illustrator based in Montreal, Canada. He is one of the most recognized art directors in the video game industry, having worked at Ubisoft on titles including Prince of Persia and the Assassin’s Creed franchise . He won two VES Awards — one in 2006 for his work on Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and another in 2017 for Assassin’s Creed Origins.

Lacoste also worked extensively in film as a matte painter and senior concept artist on features such as Terminator Salvation, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Death Race, Immortals, Repo Men, and Jupiter Ascending. In 2009 he returned to the game industry as Senior Art Director for Electronic Arts Montreal and Ubisoft, later serving as Brand Art Director on the Assassin’s Creed franchise. After many years with the series, he joined Haven Studios as Senior Artistic Director alongside some of the original creators of Assassin’s Creed.

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His visual style is known for sweeping, monumental scale and rich historical detail, blending realism with high fantasy and classic science fiction . He has cited influences including 19th-century Romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, and his work often evokes that tradition through digital painting and matte painting techniques. A retrospective art book, WORLDS: The Art of Raphaël Lacoste, was published in 2020, collecting fifteen years of his personal and professional work.