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

Shorts

Books