Jiri Trnka was an illustrator, painter, puppeteer, and founding  father  of Czech  Animated  film.  His creative, motional, work has grabbed attention  and entertained  many Czechs throughout  their adolescent years.   Jiri's style of drawings  evolved  into  animated  film  and this  helped  give  life  to  numerous, watchable, loving, puppets.
In 1912, Jiri Trnka was born in Pilsen, and even when he was very young he devoted most of his time to creating art. Trnka eventually went to the University of Applied Arts in Prague, which was his niche, and found an emotional sense of belonging.  After finishing his college studies, Jiri made a decent living by illustrating books for others.  However, Jiri was strongly attracted to the realm of puppet theatre and one day imagined setting his drawings in constant motion.  Over time, Jiri and his fellow associates founded their own studio in 1945 to work on his dream.  Jiri was the leader and others around him learned a great measure of insightful ideas from the well-respected artist.
Zdena Deitchova, who is the current director of the studio, explained that everyone in the studio gave regard to everything Jiri produced.  Also, Zdena has worked at the studio ever since it was established in 1945, which is really amazing.
There are many present, young, legendary workers of Czech animated film and many would consider Trnka a helpful teacher, not to mention an inspiring figure. Furthermore, the very first Czech animated film took place in the Bratri v triku Studio. Jiri and his crew made three films and they were all based on Czech fairy tales. One of the animated films won the prize at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in the late fourties, which was a great achievement.  The prize drew a nice celebration from the studio and the once unknown studio in Prague was now launched into the foreground.
Finally, after Trnka and his closest friends, like Bretislav Pojar, settled themselves as animators, they journeyed onto creating their own puppet film studio.  Trnka began working tirelessly and in the scope of two decades, dozens of films were generated.
Also, while working on films he continued to do illustrations for books, like the fairly tale the Grimm brothers as well as many others.  Trnka is known best for Spalicek, a handful of rhymic fairy tales written by Frantisek Hrubin.  Also, Zahrada, The Garden, was an interesting story and it was actually written by Jiri Trnka.
Jiri was a man who favored music over uttered words and he would communicate with a composer before writing an animated scenario.  Another fascinating thing about Jiri was that he was ambidextrous, which made him very efficient in all of his artwork.
    Edgar Dutka, author of a book about Trnka, explains:
"Trnka didn't like dialogues.  That's why his emphasis was on music, or animation with music.  He was lucky because his friend was a very fine Czech composer Vaclav Trojan.  In all his films, with the exception of one, the music was done by Vaclav Trojan.  They had some sequence of film ready, animated, and Trojan came with music which was not exactly for that scene so they changed the scene for that music."
    Trnka worked on countless children books, but Trnka's films were never directed specifically to children.  Many children I believe would be afraid of the animated films, because the music by Trojan is depressing and in many instances peculiar, giving the overall tone of the animation an uneasiness feeling.
Over many, many, years Jiri created what is considered his masterpiece to others - a puppet adaptation of the notable Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
 The work ethic of Mr. Trnka finally had all it could handle, and Jiri at the young age of only 57 passed away in 1969. Jiri Trnka was a wonderful, hard-working, Czech artist, who captured the lifes of many with his artistic, inventive ideas and his legacy will always be remembered by those he touched.