Website Crew972.com Founded 2005 | Headquarters Ra'anana, Israel | |
Industry Animation
CGI animation Founder Alex Orrelle
Michelle Orrelle Key people Dror Daliot, Head of Studio
Menashe Morobuse, Head of 3D
Doron Meir, Head of Animation Type Private company limited by shares | ||
Crew972 is an Israeli 3D animation studio that provides 3D animation services and develops and creates original animated entertainment.
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History
Crew 972 is a limited liability company founded in Tel Aviv Israel in 2005 for the purpose of creating animated entertainment. IT is a production company that provides animation services from concept to finished frames and is developing original properties . It was co founded in 2005 by Alex and Michelle Orrelle. Crew972 - named after Israel's international dialing code
Management
President and Co-founder Alex Orrelle spend eight years in San Francisco, where he worked on Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Boundin', and the Monsters, Inc. DVD; and on Manex Entertainment/Warner Bros. The Matrix Reloaded. During his studies, Alex made two award winning traditional animated short films and created and directed the CG short film Freeware, the 2001 winner of the Sundance On-Line Film Festival. Alex holds a BA in Fine Arts.
In 2009, Alex was offered the position of Animation Director on Yogi Bear (Dec 2010 release) for Warner Brothers Pictures.
Business Development Manager and Co-founder Michelle Orrelle has produced CD-ROM titles and online software in the U.S., Israel, and Australia at OZ.com, Scient, Macromedia, and the NSW Board of Studies. She also assisted Austrade with business development in San Francisco. Michelle holds a B.A. in Visual Arts, M.A. in Design, and M.B.A.
Dror Daliot (LLB, MBA) Head of Studio, was General Manager of Tal Yefet fashion house. Prior to that he managed teams in the former Soviet Union for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs ("Nativ" division), and ran cultural seminars. Dror interned at a top labor law office with former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Justice on Supreme Court macro-economic cases. His academic pursuits included the development of a mathematical model for refund policy at the University of Bar-Ilan. He has also written and co-hosted radio sketches.
Menashe Morobuse Head of 3D, graduated from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem in 2005. Due to his extensive knowledge in pipeline development and CG supervising, Menashe was appointed Head of TD for Animation Lab in 2006. Menashe has worked as Lead TD and CG supervisor in Israeli advertisement productions and post production companies, including Broadcast and JCS. He has taught 3D arts at Bezalel , Minshar and the IDC.
Doron Meir, Head of Animation, is a storyboard artist, character designer and animation director with 15 years of 2D and CG animation experience. He helped to create the feature film Asterix and the Vikings, computer games (Hitman), commercials and TV series.
Ron Ganbar (MA Feature Film) Head of 2D, has worked in cinematic and commercial compositing since 1995. His film credits include Sunshine (Fox Searchlight, 2007) and Fred Clause (Warner Brothers, 2007).