Rastko Ćirićis a full time professor of Illustration at the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade. He is a founder of the subject of Animation at the FAA, Belgrade and the FAA Animation Studio (2006), and a Head of the Digital Arts Group of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate studies at the University of Arts, Belgrade. He works in graphic design (illustration, logo, poster, ex-libris, comics), art graphic, animation and music. He had 35 one-man exhibitions (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Ljubljana, Kopar, Annecy, Hiroshima…), made 14 animated films and published many books. For his work he received numerous awards and prizes.