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Platige Image S.A. is a Polish-based company specializing in the creation of computer graphics, 3D animation, and digital special effects for various fields, including advertising…
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Investigate this subjectPlatige Image S.A. is a Polish-based company specializing in the creation of computer graphics, 3D animation, and digital special effects for various fields, including advertising, film, art, education, and entertainment.
Platige Image S.A. is a Polish-based company specializing in the creation of computer graphics, 3D animation, and digital special effects for various fields, including advertising, film, art, education, and entertainment. The studio employs a team of over 320 artists, comprising directors, art directors, graphic designers, and producers. The company has won approximately 280 awards and honors. Its animated shorts have garnered top prizes at SIGGRAPH four times and earned two British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards. Additionally, the studio has been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Lions at the Venice Film Festival, as well as receiving an Oscar nomination.
Platige Image is a creative studio that has produced over 5,000 commercials for big brands and works with agencies worldwide. The studio also completed numerous campaigns for international markets, including the UK, Portugal, and the US, creating commercials for popular brands like LEGO, Discovery Channel, and History Channel. Platige Image has collaborated with the Australian Tourist Board for a project, providing film and advertising spot-making expertise.
The studio has also worked with luxury car brands like Ferrari, Audi, and Aston Martin, and has produced some of Poland's advertising campaigns, including the Land of Orange series, the Heart and Mind characters, and commercials for beer Zubr in partnership with Kompania Piwowarska.
Platige Image has audiences with animated shorts, including cult works, including The Cathedral (2003), Fallen Art (2004), Ark (2007), The Kinematograph (2009) and Paths of Hate (2010). Platige Image has a stereoscopic reconstruction of a destroyed city in City of Ruins (2010) and a stereoscopic interpretation of Jan Matejko's Battle of Grunwald. Platige Image portfolio that includes projects for industries like Activision, Ubisoft, SEGA, and CD Projekt Red. In 2019, Platige Image made Netflix's series Love, Death & Robots, creating Fish Night, directed by Damian Nenow.
The studio was involved in VFX work for Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) and Antichrist (2009), Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing (2010), Andrzej Wajda's Katyń, and Rafał Wieczyński's Popieluszko. Freedom Is Within Us. Platige provided the visual effects for Lukasz Barczyk and collaborated on the post-production of Agnieszka Smoczynska's Daughters of Dancing (2015). The studio also produced an animated prologue for Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman in 2017.
A subsidiary company, called Platige Films, was created to extend the feature film and TV production capacities of Platige Image. The first feature produced by the subsidiary is called Another Day of Life. The film, which premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, earned the studio a European Film Award for Best Animated Film. Platige Image also collaborated with Netflix on The Witcher seasons 1 to 3 and Shadow and Bone season 2.
The studio's productions include a 3D production, Polita, at Buffo Theater, and musical Pilots at Roma Musical Theater. They have animated the History of Poland, directed by Tomek Baginski; a digital reconstruction of a city destroyed during World War II using stereoscopic technology was created for the Warsaw Rising Museum. Platige created a stereoscopic interpretation of Jan Matejko's painting for the National Museum in Warsaw to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald. The studio also designed the visual concept for the permanent exhibition at the Jozef Pilsudski Museum in Stara Milosna.
Platige Image has collaborated with TVP and Polsat since 2018. Their projects include the design of Polsat Sport's largest sports studio in Poland and the creation of a virtual studio for online events in partnership with Polsat television. In 2018, the studio also designed the visual identity for Wiadomości, the TVP's news program.
Platige Image has been a partner of UEFA since 2015, when the studio orchestrated opening ceremonies for UEFA Europa League finals.
Platige Image was founded by Jarosław Sawko and Piotr Sikora in Warsaw in 1997. The two met in an MBA degree program. They raised start-up capital by selling 300 studio lamps of their own design. The company debuted with VFX work for Justyna Steczkowska's music video, Niekochani (1997). The studio redesigns the visuals for TVP1. Platige received the Golden Eagle Award in 1999 for the redesign. The VFX work for Quo Vadis, directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, led to Platige making a special software solely for the purpose of automatic cloning of characters that were to populate the Roman Colosseum depicted in the movie.
In 2004, Platige moved into its new headquarters at Racławicka 99 in Fort Mokotów, one of the forts comprising Fortress Warsaw, a ring of fortifications constructed in the 19th century.
Two years after The Cathedral, Tomek Bagiński released Fallen Art. The short received the Jury Award at the SIGGRAPH festival and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award in the Best Short Animation category. Ça Ira, an opera by Roger Waters, had its world premiere in Poznań in 2006. Platige was commissioned by the opera's director, Janusz Józefowicz, to create the visuals for the performance. The resulting two-hour-long animation, composedw of archival footage and animated sequences, was used as the digital set design for the performance. In 2007, Platige released Ark. The movie was shot using MILO Motion control, a system that combined realistic set designs with computer animation. Ark was screened at multiple international movie festivals. In 2009, Rafał Wieczyński's Popiełuszko: Wolność jest w nas and Andrzej Wajda's Katyń were released. The Danish production house Zentropa commissioned Platige Image to do the visual effects for Lars von Trier's Antichrist.
On December 14, 2011, Platige became a publicly traded company by entering the NewConnect stock market. On the day of its stock exchange debut, the price of Platige shares
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