Tomasz Bagiński

Bagiński studied architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology.

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.

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

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