The team

So who are the real people
making this for you?

Not a stock photo and not an agency roster. Five people, each of whom has spent a career learning one part of this craft, sitting in the same studio and working on your film together.

Assaf Zellner

Founder, creative director

Assaf Zellner

אסף צלנר

Assaf Zellner, 45, is the founder and creative director of Studio Animedia. His road actually began in music. After studying sound engineering and acoustics he opened a post production studio and wrote music and sound for cinema, theatre, events and commercials.

But working alongside animators stirred a wish to tell stories through the image as well. He went on to study animation, drawing, character design, storyboard, concept, directing and editing, and graduated with honours.

He then worked with the leading studios in the country, rose to lead animator and creative director, and ran projects for advertising agencies, television channels and large companies. Close to two decades ago he founded Animedia, out of a belief that every story deserves a visual language of its own.

Since then he has directed and led productions combining animation, film, 3D, design, music and sound. His work has appeared in commercials, in series and in feature productions, among them award winning pieces and films that reached an Academy Award nomination.

Today Assaf combines the experience he has gathered with AI tools, seeing them as an extension of the creative toolbox, not a substitute for the idea, the taste, or the director who ties all the parts into one piece.

For him, good directing starts with listening: to the person behind the project, to the story they want to tell, and to the feeling they want to leave with the audience.

Arik Kreber

Directing, editing, camera

Arik Kreber

אריק קרבר

Arik Kreber is a director, cinematographer and editor who has worked with Studio Animedia for two decades. He brings a cinematic eye to every production, human sensitivity, and the experience to connect the first idea with the story that reveals itself in front of the camera.

Over the years he has directed, shot and edited projects for television, cinema and digital, among them documentaries and work with a social and historical character.

Today he combines traditional shooting and directing with the new AI creative tools, making sure that even as the technology changes, the story stays true, precise and human.

Odelia Zohar

Strategy

Odelia Zohar

אודליה זוהר

Odelia Zohar leads strategy and content. She brings more than twenty years of experience in advertising, marketing and communications at leading organisations, among them 012, Cellcom and Bank Hapoalim, where she ran marketing and advertising.

Odelia specialises in distilling the need behind the brief and in building messages that manage not only to explain but to touch. She asks the right questions, studies the audience, and connects the business goals to the creative idea.

Her experience running marketing operations inside large organisations lets her bring the client's point of view into every project, or as she likes to put it, she knows how to speak client: to understand the needs, the constraints and the goals behind the brief, and to translate them into a creative process that is precise and effective.

At Animedia she makes sure every project starts with a clear strategy and a human truth, before anyone chooses a style, a camera or an AI tool. Because good work does not begin with what can be produced, but with what matters to people to feel.

Shlomi Zidkiya and MIMS MIMS, the podcast house

Podcasts and content

Shlomi Zidkiya and MIMS

שלומי צדקיה ו־MIMS

Shlomi Zidkiya is a producer and video editor specialising in radio, television and digital content, and the founder of MIMS, the podcast house working alongside Animedia. Shlomi accompanies every production from the idea and the first conversation through to content ready to publish.

He combines deep technical understanding with a feel for content and pace, and knows how to turn a good conversation into a podcast people want to keep hearing and watching.

MIMS gives podcast making a full envelope: concept and format development, multi camera shooting, professional sound recording, video and audio editing, graphics, distribution, and short films for social.

The connection to Animedia makes it possible to expand any podcast into a whole content world, with strategy, a visual language, animation, sound and AI tools, so that an idea which starts in front of a microphone can become a brand that keeps meeting its audience on every platform.

Amir Meyblat

Stills photography

Amir Meyblat

עמיר מייבלט

Amir Meyblat is the stills photographer who comes out with us on every project, capturing the moments behind the scenes and shooting the product when it is needed. Over the years he has shot corporate productions, commercial content, fashion, lifestyle and events for companies, brands and creators.

Amir brings a sharp eye to every production, a sensitivity to people, and the ability to find a real moment even inside a planned shoot. Working precisely with light, composition and atmosphere, he creates images that are natural, full of life and full of character.

At Animedia he connects real photography with design and AI tools, giving every piece the detail, the texture and the human presence that technology alone cannot replace.

Human direction.
New possibilities.

Tell us what you are trying to say. We will tell you the most interesting way to say it.

assaf@studioanimedia.com +972 52-333-1126