Australia has lost one of its top 2D animation artists in Zoran Janjic, who passed away earlier this week from heart failure. Described as a .big bear. of a man (in a nice way), Janjic.s best known for being personally selected by William Hanna to head Australia's branch of Hanna-Barbera Productions in the early 1970s. .He was one of a handful that Bill elected to be .the general. basically and that doesn.t come easily,. remembers former co-worker Deane Taylor. .All of the guys at that time was of equal talent but Zoran showed something that was a bit special.. Prior to Hanna-Barbera, Janjic was an animation director at major local studio Air Programs International (Api), working on such cartoon masterpieces...
- 9/16/2011
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
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