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Wojciech Wawszczyk, known as Wojtek Wawszczyk (born August 16, 1977 in Cieszyn) – director, writer, animator, artist.
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[edit]He studied animation at the Łódź Film School, graduating with honors in 2001. During his studies, he received a one-year scholarship to study at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Wawszczyk's first student films gained widespread popularity: Headless (1999) and Mouse (2001) were screened at over 50 festivals and won several prestigious awards.
After graduating from school, he and Kamil Polak founded Studio Ploi, an independent animation group, where he co-created a number of advertising films and made his next short film, Penguin (2002).
From 2003 to 2005, he worked at Digital Domain in Los Angeles, where he co-created animations for the films I, robot, Æon Flux and a one-minute promotional film for Disney Studios. In 2004, he led a team of animators at Prana Studios in Mumbai in the creation of film inserts for the game Fight Club.
In 2007, he completed his 16-minute film about a wooden bench in love with a girl titled Splinter, using a technique combining painting with 3D computer animation. He lectured on animation and animated film directing at the Animation Department of the Warsaw Film School and at short workshops in Poland and abroad. At the same time, he led a group of animators in the production of Kamil Polak's film The Lost Town of Świteź at the Se-Ma-For studio.
From November 2007 to March 2011, together with Tomasz Leśniak and Jakub Tarkowski, he directed and animated a feature-length adaptation of Rafał Skarżycki and Tomasz Leśniak's comic book George the Hedgehog. From 2009 to 2012, he lectured on computer animation at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw.
Since the premiere of George the Hedgehog, he has been one of the leaders of the Warsaw-based animation studio Human Film (formerly Human Ark), where he worked as a director, screenwriter, and creative director. Independently, or in collaboration with Kamil Polak, he has directed nearly 200 commercials, including the series Serce i Rozum (Heart and Brain), Plush, Berlinki, and Tiger
Co-creator (screenwriter and director of several episodes) of the animated children's series Casparade (2016). For the series, he and Tomasz Leśniak created a film within a film – Muchomściciel (The Fly Avenger).
In 2018 and 2019, he produced a very popular series of short animated films entitled Sunshine and Water, based on improvised songs by his 5-year-old son Gucio.
His debut graphic novel, Mr. Lightbulb, was published in Poland in April 2018 by Kultura Gniewu[1]. In 2019, the Polish Comics Association recognized Mr. Lightbulb as the best Polish comic book[2]. In 2022, the American edition of the book was published, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Mr. Lightbulb is the first Polish comic book ever to be published by the American publishing house Fantagraphics.
He is the screenwriter and director of the film Diplodocus (aka Smok Diplodok aka The Green Dinosaur), based on the comics by Tadeusz Baranowski. The feature-length film, combining groundbreaking computer animation with live-action scenes, was completed in 2024 after 12 years of work and had its Polish theatrical premiere on October 4, 2024[3]. Diplodocus was sold for distribution in over 100 countries and won a number of international awards. Human Film, after being acquired by the Czech company PFX, ended its permanent cooperation with Wojtek at the end of 2025.
While working on Diplodocus, he collaborated with Tomasz Leśniak on another graphic novel. Fungae was published in 2023 by Kultura Gniewu and in March 2026 by Fantagraphics Underground.
Currently, as an independent artist, he is developing several film projects, directing, consulting on screenplays, lecturing at universities, and working on a comic book titled Bardzo mi przykro (I am Very Sorry).
- ^ Wojtek Wawszczyk, Pan Żarówka, p. 1–623, ISBN 9788364858789
- ^ "Nagrody PSK 2019". alejakomiksu.com. 2019-05-27.
- ^ Wojtek Wawszczyk, Pan Żarówka, p. 1–623, ISBN 9788364858789
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