In Passing
Dusan Vukotic, animator,
director, artist and former head of the animation unit of Duga Film, known
as the Zagreb Animation Studio, passed away in July at the age of 71. He was
one of the founding members of the famous Zagreb "school of animation"
in the former Yugoslavia, where he directed films such as The Playful Robot
(1956), Concerto for Sub-Machine Gun (1959) and Substitute/Ersatz
(1961) which won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Another of his films,
The Game was nominated for an Academy Award in 1964. Marija Dail, a
former colleague remembers him as "a great leader," a "silver
streak in Yugoslavian animation from the very beginning." Adam Snyder
of Rembrandt Films, distributor of the Zagreb film library, said Vukotic "was
still full of ideas for new animated films."
The next issue of Animation World Magazine will feature a tribute to
Dusan Vukotic.
Note: Readers may contact any Animation World Magazine contributor by sending an e-mail to editor@awn.com.
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