Rafael Lucien

Career Highlights

- Currently lighting supervisor at DHX Media on Nickelodeon's Blaze and the Monster Machines

-Nominated for best cinematography at the 2013 St. Tropez International Movie Festival with the short movie “The Regret of the Doubt”

-Founded Melies and Melies Online in 2005 - schools of 3D animation, that had more than 7,000 students

-Featured in three editions of Digital Designer Magazine in 2005 and 2006

-Featured in six editions of Zoom Magazine in 2006 and 2007

-Tutored more than 100 students to create 3D animated short movies from 2004 to 2013

-Participated in 6 live action short movies as the cinematographer

 

Skills

-Lighting / Texturing / Shading

-Color Grading

-Proficiency in Autodesk Maya / Softimage / 3D Studio Max

-Vray / Mental Ray

-ZBrush

-Nuke / After Effects

-Premiere

-Photoshop

-HDRI Generation

 

      Rafael Lucien has a bachelor degree in photography, issued by Senac São Paulo, and has been working in the field of 3d animation for 12 years as a texturing/shading/rendering/ lighting artist. He was one of Melies’ (the 10th best school of animation in the world) founders, where he acted as the lighting and texturing director. He also participated in a diverse range of advertising projects for MrSolo Studios in São Paulo.

      Besides 3d animation and photography, cinematography takes an important role in his career. As a cinematographer, he worked in 6 short movies, which the latter, "The Regret of the Doubt", was chosen to be shown in many film festivals around the world. He was also nominated for the best cinematographer prize on St. Tropez International Film Festival.