Lea Vučko

Biography

Lea Vučko is a Slovenian animation director and illustrator. She studied illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, where she first developed her interest in storytelling through images. After graduation, she shifted her focus toward animation, working as an animator on several acclaimed short films and commercial projects.

Since 2015, she has collaborated on titles including Prince Ki-Ki-Do (Grega Mastnak, 2016), Weasel (Timon Leder, 2017), and Špela Čadež’s Orange Is the New Black commission for Netflix (2018). She also worked on Somewhere Else (Tim Grabnar, 2018), among others.

In 2022, she made her directorial debut with The Legend of Goldhorn, a shor...