You will enjoy these animated interactive stories, cartoons and games based on four (out of eight) fairytales from the book "Croatian Tales of Long Ago", written by the Slavic Tolkien - Ivana Brlić Mažuranić and first published in 1916.The animations were done by international team of animators, illustrators, musicians, programmers, actors etc. from all around the world.

"Stribor's Forest"
animated cartoon created by Al Keddie and his team from Scotland
*download demo - STRIBOR.EXE (8MB)

"Brother Jaglenac and Sister Rutvica"
interactive story created by Ellen McAuslan and her team from Denmark and UK
*download demo - RUTVICA.zip (24MB)

"How Quest Sought the Truth"
animated cartoon and 3 computer games:
"Pocket Punch "
"Waterfall"
"Cabin Rescue "
created by Nathan Jurevicius and his team from Australia
*download demo - QUEST.zip (12MB)

"Toporko and His Nine Brothers"
interactive story created by Katrin Rothe and her team from Karotoons, Germany

The CD-ROM also includes:

Biography of the writer Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, with many photos and a short film clip.

Introduction to the Slavic mythology

Original text of the stories

and many, many more things to explore

in 3 languages:
ENGLISH / GERMAN / CROATIAN

- The CD-ROM was made with Macromedia® Flash®

System requirements:
- Multimedia PC
- Pentium™ class processor 1 GHz or better
- Microsoft® Windows® 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista ...
- 64 MB RAM (128 or more recommended)
- SVGA resolution (800x600) or better
- CD-ROM / DVD-ROM

or

- Macintosh® PowerPC® G3 500MHz or Intel Core™ Duo 1 GHz
- Mac OS v.10.x or newer
- 128 MB RAM
- CD-ROM / DVD-ROM

• AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
  

The project was awarded or presented on more than 20 animation and new media festivals, including the most famous ones such as FlashForward, Annecy, Ottawa, Seoul, Flashinthecan in Toronto and other:  

• - FlashForward2002 San Francisco - the project won in the category "Story"! Cartoon "Neva" by Edgar Beals was a finalist in the category "Cartoon" at the same festival
  
  - NetFestival 2002, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - winner in the "Story" category
  
  - Golden Award of Montreux 2003, Switzerland - CD-ROM "Croatian Tales, Part One" won Finalist Award Certificate in Web/Multimedia category
  
  - LuccaComics&Games 2004, Lucca, Italy - "Il Miglior Opera Multimediale" (the best multimedia work of the year)
  
  - International Family Film Festival 2007, Hollywood, USA - the cartoon "Regoch" by Helena Bulaja won best foreign short animation award
  
  - New Media Festival 2002, Brudenell, Canada - "Neva" won honorable mention
  
  - Site of the Month at www.davidbowie.com - in July 2003
  
  - Zagreb City Award 2003 to project producers Helena and Zvonimir Bulaja
  
  - 12th Festival of Croatian Film, Zagreb 2003 - special award for promoting ethical values in film
  
  - "Nobiliska" 2003, a prize for publishing project of the year (Čakovec, Croatia)