Tomasz Bagiński

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

Tomasz "Tomek" Bagiński (, 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. Career 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.

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.

He designed the covers of all Jacek Dukaj's books, including the novel 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 The Witcher computer game based on the books by Andrzej Sapkowski and co-produces the Witcher Netflix series.

He is represented by UTA.

Filmography Short film Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes 1997 Deszcz 2002 The Cathedral 2004 Fallen Art 2009 The Kinematograph Bieg 2011 Animowana historia Polski Also editor 2014 Ambition 2015 The Dragon Segments of Polish Legends Twardowsky 2016 Twardowsky 2.0 Operation Basilisk Jaga

Video game The Witcher (intro and outro) (2007) The Witcher 2 (intro) (2011) The Witcher 3 (intro) (2015) Cyberpunk 2077 (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