January Misiak is a drawer, painter, storyboard artist, stop-motion animator, and director. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He is the author of the comics Siedem Tygodni (Seven Weeks, Kultura Gniewu) and Wszystko Będzie Dobrze (Everything Will Be Fine, Egmont Polska).
For seven years, he was associated with Breakthru Films, where he worked from the start on the film Loving Vincent, handling painted animation, storyboards, and painting supervision. He then spent another seven years at Studio Trefl (Każ Studio), specializing in puppet animation, storyboards, and directing.