Zarja Menart works as a film animator, illustrator and art director. She has served as the art director and main animator on several short films. Notably, Menart was the main animator on Špela Čadež's multi award-winning films Nighthawk and Steakhouse, where she worked side by side with Čadež, revitalising the animation technique of multiplane cut-out. The short animated film The Three Birds is her debut film.