Jan Tománek

Jan Tománek (born 14 February 1978) is a Czech movie director, writer and artist. He is the creator of animated movies ''Goat Story: The Old Prague Legends'' and '' Goat Story with Cheese''.

Biography

Tománek graduated from the High School of Arts in Prague in 1996. He has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague since 1999 in the studio of New Media. He has been making short 3D animated movies and combined movies with real actors since 1997. In 1997, he created his first short movie, ''Perpetuum mobile''. In 1999, he produced two short acted movies and one 3D animated story about two living glasses. Since 2007, he has been working with Czech Television on his latest movie, which was a combination of 3D modelled backgrounds with real actors shot on a blue background. He also works with Prague's Laterna Magika theatre company. Tománek's movies have been presented and awarded at Czech and foreign festivals. On his short films, he does almost everything alone, including script, directing, animation and post-production.

In 2008, Art And Animation studio, Tománek released a new film project titled ''Goat Story – The Old Prague Legends'' () – the first full-length Czech 3D animated movie. In 2012, he completed the sequel Goat story with Chesse – aka'' Goat Story 2''. In 2009, Goat story became the most popular Czech animated movie ever.

Tománek has been writing fiction since 2018, with his first novel being titled ''Motýlí křik (The Butterfly scream)'' in the publishing house Albatros Media. In 2019, he wrote the book ''Lustr pro papeže (Chandelier for the Pope)'' – A true story from the hell of the communist normalization camps.

Tománek has two children, a son named Jan and a daughter named Zuzana.

Filmography

* ''Goat Story'' (2008) ''– The Old Prague Legends'' – feature film, director, artistGoat Story movie web site
Retrieved 15 August 2007
* '' Goat Story with Cheese'' (2012) – feature film, director, artist
* Untitled Goat Story sequel (TBA) – feature film, director, artist

Shorts

* 1993 ''Balabanci'' – 8-minute bedtime stories
* 1997 ''Poslední večeře Páně'' – 3-minute short film
* 1997 ''Perpetuum mobile'' – 5-minute short film
* 1999 ''Kapesníček'' – 6-minute short film
* 1999 ''Ze života sklenic'' – 3-minute 3D animation
* 1999 ''Vlastně nikam...'' – 20-minute short film
* 2000 ''Svět (The World)'' – 3-minute 3D animation
* 2001 ''Červená Karkulka'' – 5-minute short film with animation
* 2002 ''Žáby'' (The Frogs) – 4-minute 3D animation film, in the cinema distribution since 2003
* 2003 ''Probuzení'' (Wake up) – 20-minute short film

Books

* ''Motýlí křik'' (2018) (The Butterfly scream) – The conspiracy thriller from present-day Prague and the Bilderberg conference.
* ''Lustr pro papeže'' (2019) (Chandelier for the Pope) – A true story from the hell of the communist normalization camps.
* ''Archa knih'' (2021) (Ark of Books) – The Real Truth Hides Between the Lines – Dystopian Novel (Albatros Media, XYZ)
* ''Válka se stromy'' (2022) (War with trees) – A bitterly parodic parable about a contemporary world that is getting more and more out of joint. (AAA studio)

References

External links

Jan Tomanek – Personal web

The Butterfly scream book web


film about a goat

animation studio

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1978 births
Living people
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague alumni
21st-century Czech writers
21st-century Czech novelists
Czech film directors
Artists from Prague