Jan Klos is celebrating his 80th birthday today. For that occasion, I've created a compilation of some of his best animation (centered around a Pat and Mat episode he animated - under a pseudonym!) and I'm sharing it here. I think I've written everything important about the video in its description. (Czech readers can find a translation of that description in the comments of this post. Thanks to Dan for correcting it.)
Apart from being a retrospective to a great career in animation, the video is also a tribute to someone I am proud and honored to call a friend. If you are not that familiar with Jan's work, I hope the video will provide with you some more films to discover, including two of his own favorites from the 1990s, Kotlík or The Maiden and the Soldier (where he did not get to animate the ending as intended, though). Another film he did for Katarina Lillqvist at the time was The Country Doctor, which can be seen in breathtaking quality here. Hopefully, my video will give you a good overview of why Jan was just an exceptional puppet animator.
