Background
Vukotić was born in Bileća, Bosnia and Herzegovina (at the time Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes).
Vukotić was born in Bileća, Bosnia and Herzegovina (at the time Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes).
He worked there for over four decades and directed cartoons such as Cow on the Moon. After the 1960s, he rarely made short animated films, making three full-length movies - a fantasy tale for children, Sedmi kontinent ("The Seventh Continent", 1966), an action movie, Akcija Stadion ("Operation Stadium") about the resistance of Zagreb students to the Ustaša regime in 1941, and the science fiction/horror parody Gosti iz galaksije ("Visitors from the Galaxy of Arkana", 1981). He also taught film directing at the Zagreb Academy for Dramatic Art from the founding of its Film department in 1967 until his retirement in the early 1990s.
At the time of his death, Vukotić was preparing a production of his new science fiction movie, co-written by the Croatian science fiction writer Aleksandar Žiljak.
Vukotić died in Krapinske Toplice near Zagreb at the age of 71.
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He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of animated films. In 1953 he was one of the founding members of Zagreb Film. In 1963, he was a member of the jury at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival.
After 1973, he was a member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.