Vlastimil Herold (19 July 1924 – 10 March 2004) was a Czech-Slovak artist, animator, graphic designer, caricaturist, typographer, illustrator and filmmaker. He is one of the four founders of Slovak animated cinema.

In the years 1942-1944 he studied painting at Professor V. Tittelbach's evening drawing school in Prague. After the war, he joined the newly founded Brothers in Trick cartoon studio in Prague, where he worked until 1951. At that time, he married the animator Libuša Černá, who later helped him in creating all of his next films. films. In 1953, they moved together from Moravia to Slovakia, where they began their activities at the Short Film Trick Department in Bratislava. Vlastimil Herold created several notable films here - cartoons with fairy tale themes and animated advertising shorts, on the basis of which he is sometimes referred to as "the first professional of Slovak animated cinema". He created several imaginative animated films, of which Varila mishichka kašičku in particular belongs to the top, in addition to several other works of Slovak animation that have been rightly awarded.