Borivoj Dovniković
Borivoj Dovniković is a Croatian film director, animator, caricaturist, illustrator and graphic designer.Biography
Borivoj Dovniković was born in Osijek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia on December 12, 1930. In 1949, he arrived in Zagreb where he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and started to work as a caricaturist and illustrator in newspapers. Subsequently, he got a job at a local newspaper called Kerempuh in 1950. He participated in the making of the first Croatian animated art film Veliki Miting and, in 1957, he joins the Zagreb Film company, from where he creates and works on animated shorts and movies. This led to the creation of Lutkica in 1961, his first fully own creation. From 1977 to 1982 he was a member of the International Animated Film Association and is a board member of Animafest Zagreb festival.
