Tomasz Bagiński

Bagiński in 2016

Tomasz Bagiński at opening gala XXXV Polish Film Festival in Gdynia 2010.

Tomasz "Tomek" Bagiński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɔmaʐbaˈɡʲij̃skʲi] , born 10 January 1976 in Białystok) is a Polish illustrator, animator, producer and director. He is a self-taught artist.

Education

Bagiński studied architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology.^{[ citation needed ]}

Works

His first film Rain has won several local awards and became the passport to Platige Image 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. ^{[1] [2]}

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 and a Grand Prix for Digital Shorts at Golden Horse Film Festival 2005 (shared with Jarek Sawko and Piotr Sikora) as well as Prix Ars Electronica. ^[3]

He designed the covers of all Jacek Dukaj's books, including the novel Ice. ^[4]

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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Bagiński has also created cinematics for The Witcher computer game based on the books by Andrzej Sapkowski and co-produces the Witcher Netflix series. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

He is represented by UTA.^{[ citation needed ]}

Filmography

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1997	Deszcz	Yes	No	No
2002	The Cathedral	Yes	Yes	No
2004	Fallen Art	Yes	Yes	Yes
2009	The Kinematograph	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Bieg	Yes	No	No
2011	Animowana historia Polski	Yes	No	No	Also editor
2014	Ambition	Yes	Yes	No
2015	The Dragon	Yes	No	No	Segments of Polish Legends
	Twardowsky	Yes	No	No
2016	Twardowsky 2.0	Yes	No	No
	Operation Basilisk	Yes	No	No
	Jaga	Yes	No	No

Video game

• The Witcher (intro and outro) (2007)
• The Witcher 2 (intro) (2011)
• The Witcher 3 (intro) (2015)
• Cyberpunk 2077 ^[8] (teaser trailer) (2013)

TV executive producer

• The Witcher (2019-2023)
• Into the Night (2020)
• The Witcher: Blood Origin (2023)
• The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep (2025)
• The Rats: A Witcher Tale (2025)

Feature film

• Knights of the Zodiac (2023)

Other

• Move Your Imagination - EURO 2012 UEFA (2011)
• Hardkor 44

References

1. "Tomasz Baginski: From Lowly Student to Executive producer of Netflix series 'The Witcher'".
2. "Tomasz Bagiński". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
3. "Short Animation". Bafta. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
4. "Jacek Dukaj, Ice". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
5. Platige Image [@PlatigeImage] (17 May 2017). "We started production of the series based on "The Witcher" in coop. with @NetflixUS and SeanDanielCompany. Tomek…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
6. "The Witcher Saga: has Netflix found its Game of Thrones?". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
7. "THE WITCHER Saga on Netflix". Platige Image. May 17, 2017. Archived from the original on 25 January 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
8. "Cyberpunk 2077". Behance. 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2013-01-20.

External links

• Tomasz Bagiński at IMDb
• Bagiński's profile (in Polish)
• Tomasz Bagiński at culture.pl