Tomasz "Tomek" Bagiński (, born 10 January 1976 in

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...

) is a Polish illustrator, animator, producer and director. He is a self-taught artist.

Education

Bagiński studied

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

at the

Warsaw University of Technology The Warsaw University of Technology ( pl, Politechnika Warszawska, lit=Varsovian Polytechnic) is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland and one of the largest in Central Europe. It employs 2,453 teaching faculty, with 357 professor ...

Works

His first film ''Rain'' has won several local awards and became the passport to

Platige Image Platige Image S.A. is a Polish company founded in 1997. It specialises in computer graphics, 3D animation, and digital special effects. Its core business includes advertising as well as film, art, and academic projects. The studio employs a staf ...

company, in which he is a creative director. Between 1999 and 2002 he was working on his short film debut,'' The Cathedral'', which in 2002 won the first prize at SIGGRAPH, the biggest festival of animation and special effects, and a year later was nominated for the

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year ...

. In 2004, he made his second short film, '' Fallen Art''. In 2005, he received another award at the SIGGRAPH festival, becoming the only artist in history who has won two main awards. ''Fallen Art'' also received a

BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation This page lists the winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best British Short Animation for each year since 1990 when the award was introduced. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annu ...

and a Grand Prix for Digital Shorts at

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2005 (shared with Jarek Sawko and Piotr Sikora) as well as

Prix Ars Electronica The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) ...

. He is the author of all covers of

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books, including the novel entitled ''Ice''. In 2009, he directed another short film, '' The Kinematograph'', based on a comic book by Mateusz Skutnik from the album ''Revolutions: Monochrome''. Apart from his own projects, Bagiński works as a director on commercials and stage shows. He has published in many trade magazines, from the United States to China and Japan. Bagiński has also created cinematics for ''

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'' computer game based on the books by

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and co-produces the Witcher Netflix series. He is represented by UTA.

Films

*''Rain'' (1998) *'' The Cathedral'' (2002) *'' Fallen Art'' (2004) *''

'' (game intro and outro) (2007) *''Seven Gates of Jerusalem'' (2009) *'' The Kinematograph'' (2010) *''The Animated History of Poland'' (2010) *''Move Your Imagination - EURO 2012 UEFA'' (2011) *''

The Witcher 2 ''The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings'' ( pl, Wiedźmin 2: Zabójcy królów) is a 2011 action role-playing video game developed by CD Projekt Red, based on ''The Witcher'' series of fantasy novels by Andrzej Sapkowski. It is the sequel to the 20 ...

'' (game intro) (2011) *''

The Witcher 3 ''The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'' is a 2015 action role-playing game developed and published by CD Projekt. It is the sequel to the 2011 game ''The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings'' and the third game in The Witcher (video game series), ''The Witcher' ...

'' (game intro) (2015) *''Hardkor 44'' *''

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'' (teaser trailer) (2013) *''Ambition'' (2014) * 2015: ''

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: The Dragon'' * 2015: ''Polish Legends: Twardowsky'' * 2016: ''Polish Legends: Twardowsky 2.0'' * 2016: ''Polish Legends: Operation Basilisk'' * 2016: ''Polish Legends: Jaga'' * 2017: ''The Unconquered'' * 2019: ''

'' (executive producer) * 2020: '' Into the Night'' (executive producer) * TBA: ''

Knights of the Zodiac , also known as ''Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac'' or simply ''Knights of the Zodiac'' (translated from the French title ''Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque''), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. It w ...

References

External links

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