Dovi Keich

Graduated from the Bezalel academy in 1995 with a B des. degree in Visual Communications. My graduation animation film, Patit, participated in many animation festivals around the world and won a prize for best student work at the Goldfish Animation Festival in Moscow, 1996. Graduated from the Digital Media Program, The School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University in 2021 with a MFA. degree in VFX. Working in Tel Aviv in my independent studio. Lecturer of animation and illustration since 1999. Taught animation in the Bezalel Academy from 2002-2004. Currently teaching animation at the Wizo Haifa academy (since 2004), and graphic design at The School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University (since 2020).

As a student at the MFA digital media program in The Film School of Tel Aviv University I was looking for an idea for my graduation project. The film Gruf & Me combines many fields that interest me: narrative, live action video with 2D and 3D animation and complex post production. The challenge was to draw and animate Gruf digitally while maintaining the rough and grungy look of original street art. The film took 3 years to complete. It was shot in south Tel Aviv, at an area that is less known to tourists. It’s a shabby neighborhood filled with Graffiti on the walls. An entire block where the first scene of the film was shot, has been demolished to make room for a new building a short time after the shooting ended.