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Borivoj Dovnikovic (Bordo) is born in 1930, Osijek. He attended secondary school in Belgrade and moved to Zagreb in 1949, to study at the Academy of Fine Arts while working as a newspaper cartoonist and illustrator.
In the early 1950s, he joined a group of cartoonists who were trying to produce the first Croatian artistic cartoon film, "The Big Meeting" (1950-51), which marked the beginning of the internationally renowned Zagreb School of Animated Films.
He also participated in efforts to produce new animated film as a designer & animator. In 1958, he joined the newly founded Animation Studio at Zagreb film as a designer and animator and in 1961 he began to make his own films. Over the next thirty years, his films won awards at numerous international film festivals. Since 1995, he has received a series of local and international awards for his contribution to Croatian/Yugoslav films and animation.
Retrospective presentations of his films were held in many cities and at a number of festivals, including Zagreb School retrospectives. In 1983, he published a book entitled "How to Make Cartoon" which was translated to French in 2000. He has been involved in the organization of the world festival of animated films in Zagreb since its very beginning in 1972, first as a member of the festival council and the steering committee, and from 1979 as the chairman of the steering committee. From 1985 to 1991, he was the festival director, and at Zagreb 2000 he was the festival's artistic advisor. From 1977 to 1982 he was active as a member of the board of ASIFA, the International Association of Animated Films and from 1994 to 2000 he served as its secretary general.
One of his memorial works is "Balthazar" TV series; which was shown on Iranian TV several times during the last years and it became a part of the childhood dream of Iranian artists new generation.