Diplodocus - Wojtek Wawszczyk

Full-lenght feature for family audience, combining animation and live-action. The project in development since 2012, completed in 2024. Inspired by classic comic books from the 80′, created by Tadeusz Baranowski. The movie is produced by Human Film (formerly Human Ark) and PFX studios.

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Script 2014-2019

The movie concept was presented to the international audience for the first time at the Cartoon Movie 2014 conference.

Also created at the time was the first screenplay draft of Diplodocus, which was the result of the collaboration of several authors in writers room. The team included Polish filmmakers and comic book artists: Wojtek Wawszczyk, Rafał Skarżycki, Tomasz Leśniak, Jakub Tarkowski and Michał Śledziński, as well as American writer Mark Palmer. The story was fine-tuned by experts Phil Parker (Aardman), Richelle Wilder (DreamWorks) and director Kris Pearn (The Willoughbys, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2).

The final version of the script was written by me in 2019.

Concept design 2012-2019

Some of the designs that were created during the development stage (2012-2019). Images created by Janusz Ordon, Mariusz Arczewski, Tomasz Leśniak, Michał Śledziński, Sławek Fedorczuk, Wojtek Wawszczyk.

Draft storyboard 2017

Before I completed the final version of the screenplay we had drawn a draft storyboard of the entire plot – 300 pictures of the most important moments in the movie. The frames were created by Janusz Ordon, Michał Śledziński, Kuba Tarkowski, Tomek Leśniak and me.

Tadeusz Baranowski 2017

at Human Ark animation studio

The original comic books that are being an inspiration for the movie were created by Tadeusz Baranowski in the 80′. The comic book author visited the Human Ark animation studio in October 2017 where I guided him through the draft storyboard of the movie.

Animation Test 2017

first Teaser Poster 2018

final storyboard 2019-2020

The first version of the storyboard is about 650 pages long and was completed in summer 2019. The storyboard was revised several more times.

In 2020, its last, sixth version was created, along with a story reel.

here we go... 2020

Maks Sikora (producer), Wojtek Wawszczyk (writer, director)

The Polish Film Institute awarded us the grant for the production of the film in 2016, but signed the production contract with us in March 2020 – the production started at the very beginning of the covid pandemic…

PRODUCTION IS RAMPING UP 2021

After many years of waiting, the production of “Diplodocus” has started in full swing. In July 2021 we hosted Ania and Tadek Baranowski and showed them the final version of the animatic. They liked it very much!