Todor Dinov was a director, artist, animator. Todor Georgiev Dinov was born on July 24, 1919 in Dedeagach . His next film "Careful angel" shows the development in the style of drawing and thinking of Dinov: naturalistic image is replaced with a fresh pattern of caricature and linear story line - with an unexpected ending. In 1964, Dinov created his iconic movie " Team Flower " robbed the cheers of festival of animation films in Leipzig, Buenos Aires, Ankara, Vienna, Chicago and Cannes. In 1967, "Team Flower" was named best Bulgarian children's film . Other famous cartoons of Dinov are "Lightning", "Jealousy", "Epigram", "Prometheus 20", "Drum", "Paris Rain". Besides painted cinema Dinov is director and screenwriter of several feature films - " Iconostasis ", " Powder Primer ," " Sin of Maltitsa". There are numerous appearances as a cartoonist, illustrator , schedule , painter and placard . He worked with techniques: watercolor , pastel , oil paint . Dinov is one of the founders of the first Studios cartoons in Bulgaria. He was a founder of the specialty Animation Directing at the National Academy , where his students are animators and directors as Donyo Donev , Stoyan Doukov , Ivan Andonov , Ivan Veselinov . In 1999, for his outstanding contribution to the development of Bulgarian culture was honored with the "Stara Planina" I degree. He died on June 17, 2004 in Sofia.
Developed what later came to be known as the "Bulgarian Animation School" in the late 1950s, early 1960s. Proteges of this school included: Donio Donev & Stoian Dukov. Others heavily influenced by the "School" are Ivan Andonov and Ivan Vesselino--both of whom have won awards for their animated shorts.
