Marcin Nowak (director)
Marcin Nowak - is a Polish producer, director and special effects artist. The foundation for Nowak's career began while studying cinematography and editing in Łódź. With first experience in film and computer games in 2000s, he focused his work on special effects. With over ten years of film and games production, he deals with projects ranging form production to animation. In 2012, Marcin Nowak founded Efektpol.
Computer games
In 2003, he started working on a computer game The Witcher as a scriptwriter, main cutscenes director, motion capture director and motion capture actor. He was one of the first in Poland to use motion capture in practice. In The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings he was responsible for main trailers[1] and features. For the 2015 game Dying Light he served as cutscenes director, motion capture director and scriptwriter.
Feature films
For the film Snow White and Russian Red (2009), Marcin was responsible for action and special effects design, on set supervision of special effects and post-production. In Manhunt (2012) he held the post of the second unit director and handled the film’s VFX. For The Girl from the Wardrobe (2013), Marcin managed the VFX’s pre-production, design and on set supervision
Short films/ video clips/commercials
While directing a video clip Do jutra (2009) for Borys Szyc, Marcin utilized miniatures and puppetry animation. In 2012, during a period of just one month, he produced, directed and shot a short animated film, Honey I Killed the Cats[2], based on a text by Dorota Masłowska. Recently, he also directed a series of animated commercials for Paperlinx Packaging.[3]
External links
Marcin Nowak at IMDb