Béla Ternovszky is a Hungarian animator best known for Cat City 1986 and animated series Master Eder and his Pumuckl 19952005 In 1961 after passing his high school diploma he enrolled in the philosophy aesthetics department of the Evening University of MarxismLeninism where he graduated in 1964 He then worked at Pannónia Filmstúdió and later at Filmvállalat He was initially a draftsman then a motion designer and director In 1979 in the Federal Republic of Germany he worked with Infafilm at the Bavarian television station Bayerischer Rundfunk After making the successful Master Eder and his Pumuckl series between 1995 and 2005 Studio II Kft is also one of the owners and directors He retired in 2003 His first own short film Modern training methods won numerous domestic and international festival awards He gained international fame in 1986 with the highly successful cartoon Cat City Married his wife Karola Ács is a production manager They have three daughters