ZAGREB SCHOOL — YUGOSLAV SURREALIST ANIMATION

VISUAL STYLE: Zagreb School of Animation — 1960s Yugoslav surrealist and satirical animation. Flat, minimal, graphically bold. Influenced by UPA but darker, more politically aware, more willing to be strange.

COLOUR PALETTE: Bold, limited, slightly discordant. Flat areas of colour that don't quite harmonise — olive and orange, grey-blue and mustard, deep red and pale green. The colour of Eastern European graphic design in the Cold War era.

ILLUSTRATION: Minimal line work. Figures reduced to essential shapes. Faces often absent or abstracted. Negative space used aggressively.

MOVEMENT: Deliberately limited — characters slide rather than walk. Expressions change by replacing one flat shape with another.

THEMES: Absurdist bureaucracy, the smallness of the individual against systems, dark humour about modern life.

TRANSITIONS: Graphic and abrupt. A shape becomes another shape. The screen splits. A figure multiplies. Visual logic rather than narrative logic.

No photographs. No naturalistic illustration. Flat, bold, slightly unsettling graphic animation throughout.