Raf Grassetti (Brazilian, b. 1988) is a digital and traditional sculptor who has worked across video games, film and collectible design for more than twenty years.,He won the DICE award for Best Art Direction, the MAXON award for Best Digital Sculptor, and a VGA Game of the Year award over the course of his career.
Grassetti began his career in 2004 at advertising studios in Brazil before moving into freelance character art for cinematics, advertising and toys, working with companies including Hasbro, Marvel and Ubisoft. In 2011 he relocated to Canada to join BioWare as a Senior Character Artist on the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises, then moved to California in 2013 to become Character Art Supervisor at Sony's Visual Arts Service Group on titles including Killzone: Shadow Fall and The Order: 1886.He later joined Santa Monica Studio, rising from Principal Artist to Studio Art Director across the last two God of War titles, then served as Art Director on Netflix projects before joining Naughty Dog as Art Director in Los Angeles.,
Grassetti entered the NFT space in 2021, releasing the collection Meme Kingdom that April — including editions such as Verified (250 pieces) and the 1-of-1 The Goat — and dropping his first Nifty Gateway collection, Generations, that June, which saw over 100 secondary sales within 24 hours.,That May he presented the piece Lady Phoenix in Christie's “Proof of Sovereignty” auction and also showed work in Sotheby's “Contemporary Curated” auction.,
In a later collaboration with Micah Johnson's character Aku, released at Art Basel Miami, Grassetti directed part of the proceeds toward buying computers and funding digital art classes for young artists in Brazil, working with Materia Rima and artist Pixote Mushi in São Paulo.In 2024 he debuted the sculpture Whispers in the Dark, created with Arkvst, at Monsterpalooza; the piece separates into fragments telling the story of a girl's passage from innocence to temptation.He has also collaborated with Artifex, a brand founded by Roger Dickerman at the intersection of fine digital art and 3D sculpting, and teaches character sculpting through a ZBrush workshop for the Gnomon Workshop.,
