Zoran janjic biography

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 s.

“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 as A Christmas Carol and Arthur!

and the Square Knights of the Round Table, which he directed. The series was syndicated in the US by Twentieth Century Fox a