LUBOMÍR BENEŠ

Lubomír Beneš grew up in Hloubětín, a suburb of Prague. As a child, he was artistically talented, so his parents paid for private art lessons, in which he studied drawing, painting and writing.
He began working in animation in the late 1950s in the animation studios of Krátký Film Praha. After winning a competition he was accepted to the animated film studio Bratři v triku after his military service, where he became acquainted with various animation techniques.
In 1967 he created his first film, Homo (Man) in Jiří Trnka's studio. Beneš’s first puppet film I back your pardon (Czech: Račte prominout) was made in 1974. After that, he directed stop motion films in the Krátký Film Praha studios. He directed over a hundred short films, mostly puppet animation, and many of them for children. He also directed and animated films using cut-out phases.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Beneš also worked on numerous TV projects for the state channels Československá televize (ČST) Praha and ČST Bratislava. His most popular animated series for ČST were ...A je to! (...And that's it!) (28 episodes, 1979–1985).