Marie Urbánková was born in 1995. After graduating in Scenography from the Secondary School of Applied Arts (SUPŠ), Marie was accepted at UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where she currently studies in a Masters degree programme led by Jakub Zicha. She is one of the permanent illustrators of the Raketa magazine. She’s had several books published and became the artist of the animated series Kosmix (2019) for Czech Television. Apart from illustrating books she loves animated film. She made her animated film debut Bazén (Swimming Pool) in 2016. For her Bachelors degree project at UMPRUM she made her short movie The Concrete Jungle (2019), co-produced with MAUR film.