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About Zagreb School of Animation

The Zagreb School of animated films turned scarcity into style. From the mid-1950s, animators at Zagreb Film in socialist Yugoslavia embraced UPA-style "reduced animation" — flat, witty, modernist figures drawn in single-weight line, filled with hot-orange and avocado color flats, and set on graphic card-stock fields.

This system distills that silkscreen-jazz-poster spirit: a cool card-white ground, no shading or gradients, bold poster type, and playful asymmetric layouts where one charged flat color does all the talking.

Learn more about the Zagreb School of Animation style

Origin
Eastern Europe — Zagreb, Croatia (SFR Yugoslavia)
Era
c. 1960 (socialist period 1950–1990; Zagreb Film founded mid-1950s)
Key figures
Dušan Vukotić · Vatroslav Mimica · Zagreb Film
Movements
Reduced animation (UPA-influenced) · Modernist flat 2D graphic design · Jazz-poster silkscreen aesthetic

Zagreb School of Animation design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

AntonHeadings
PoppinsBody
Bebas NeueMono
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