raphael-lacoste's CGPortoflio Gallery

London Rooftops, Matte Painting

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:47:26 +0000

Hello there,

I did this Matte Painting here at RodeoFX for Annie Leibovitz Disney Parks campaign "Disney�s Year of a Million Dreams�".

All the Foreground elements were modeled and textured (took me a long time!), I painted then all the highlights, smokes, sky, and details for lighting.
Original size is 6K pixel high for print, supposed to be one day in vanityfair or vogue
hope you like!

Arctic Express 2008

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:14:25 +0000

I did a speed paint a few months ago and wanted to push the picture to the next level. I worked on this illustration with some photo manipulation and a lot of digital painting.
I did the train in 3D so I could choose the right angle and the stylised shape I wanted for the mood of this picture.
all the pictures used for textures are from personal photos I did in a train museum in montreal and mountains original plate was a photo taken by my father in France. a lot of paint over on the mountains was necessary to give them a more stylised shape and... create more interesting composition, lines for an illustration!
So it is now a mix between matte painting and digital illustration work, I hope you will like it and I wish you a happy new year

Raphael Lacoste

Assassin's Creed Kingdom

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:33:59 +0000

I worked as Art Director on the production of the game and had a particular responsability for the environments, I did this illustration to define the look of the kingdom of the Game.
hope you'll like it!

Raphael

Steampunk Chinese Winter...

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:54:46 +0000

Hi there,

in this one, no 3D at all, wanted to try something in 2D from scratch!
10 hours work, hope you'll like it,

happy new Year!

Raph.

Path To The Gothic Choir...

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:00:40 +0000

I did this in a few hours, nights... at home, while my baby was sleeping
a bit spooky, as usual, hope you'll like this mood!
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Workshop

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:41:24 +0000

hi there,
this is a Matte Painting / Concept Art I did for Art Direction on "Prince of Persia The two thrones" HR Cinematics. this was used for lighting, mattepainting and effects reference of one of our sequence,
I hope you'll like it and leave some comments
Happy new year !
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Wreck Of Esperance

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:13:29 +0000

I had this picture in mind while reading the book on Endurance's expedition in arctic (1914)
I took some inspiration also in the Art of Gaspard Friedrich Ice seas...
hope you'll enjoy it,
best
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"THE SALE" Matte Painting

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:28:07 +0000

Hi there,

I did this Matte Painting for my friend director Kun Chang. It is for the openiing shot of his last short film wich should be screened soon in canadian TV, hope we will see it in other countries, it is a great one!

I used 3D for perspective and light direction, the stuff is 80% photoshop.

Dead End...

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:53:46 +0000

hmmm... what is going to happen?
As usual, a 3D base was used for perpective and details like the tiles, but it is mostly a 2D job.

hope you'll like it.

enjoy!

Kong's Lair

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:20:20 +0000

it is a new Speed painting (4-5 hours)
this time, I didn't use any references or photo for palete or composition, it is straight from my mind
I hope you'll like it.

Ancient Hall, El Rafo (3D)

Thu, 27 Nov 2003 02:16:35 +0000

here is my last illustration, I did it while working on the atmosphere of a cinematic project
hope you'll like it and give some comments!

Malik Shah's Sanctuary, El Rafo (3D)

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:06:51 +0000

3 D Matte Painting

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:15:37 +0000

Hi all,
Here is a 3D matte Painting I did for "Prince of Persia Warrior Within" High Rez Cinematic opening Shot. I was Art director for the cinematics on this short prodution and did a few BGs to setup the mood of the HR look,
hope you'll like it!
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Corridor To The Reactor

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:21:04 +0000

hi there!
After a lot of persian / old stones illustration I wanted to try a more contemporary / SF style
hope you'll like it!
Raph
PS: there is sure a detailed 3D layout but the most important job is done in 2D, this is the reason why I post it there!
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Matte Painting

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:27:11 +0000

here is a full 2D cg picture (my first one)
no 3D!
hope you'll like it, i'm practicing Mattepainting (as i'm working to become one of the invisible art artists )
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Rouen, After...

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:59:17 +0000

Hi All,
This is a 2D matte I did from a picture of Rouen City, France, hope you'll like it!
raf.
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The Warp Room

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:20:24 +0000

hey there, anoter one!
done for Warrior Within Cinematics, 3D model in Max, XSI for render and texture/shader,
Hydropix (Bruno Gentile)did the original 2D design, hydro is the man
hope you'll like and leave some comments,
hou hou hou !
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