FIDF · Projection mapping
Wraparound projection mapping.
Animation mapped across a coffered dome and the surrounding walls for an FIDF event.
Ideas that hold a room's attention.
I design the visuals that fill a room: LED walls, projection, stage identity. Before that, and still, I paint.
One-page CV
Animation
Procedural motion
Art direction
Event environments
Illustration
Title design
Creative technology
A selection of clients
FIDFColel ChabadBonei OlamChai LifelineJLIFriendship CircleKeterChabad.organd others
02 — Live environments
Live event environments.
I design for LED walls, panoramic screens, projection surfaces and freestanding builds. It has to read from the back of the room, not just on a monitor.
Selected event work, 2014 to 2026.
- FormatsPanoramic and standard LED walls, flanking portrait panels, projection surfaces, and freestanding sculptural LED builds.
- What I doScreen and scenic design: the content, the look, and delivery to whatever spec the venue's screens run at.
Selected event work, including the National Menorah stage identity I design each year. Click any image to enlarge.
03 — Motion
Motion design across formats.
Projection mapping, brand animation and documentary title design.
Brand motion
Meaningful Minute Plus
A logo reveal that runs in front of everything they publish. Two seconds, so it has to land immediately.
Title design
Neighbors
An opening title for a documentary-style piece. Editorial type held sharp, with the room left soft behind it.
Process
Comp Breakdown
One of my After Effects comps, pulled apart layer by layer. I posted it to show how a frame like that gets built.
04 — Illustration
Illustration.
Painting is where the rest of it comes from. Composition, light, and the problem of making something abstract concrete enough to look at.
An older painting of mine, animated in After Effects. Same image, moving.
More of these at @sketch.ish_.
Illustration
The Red Sea
05 — Experience
Work experience.
I started with drawing. Illustration taught me to shape a frame, art direction taught me to shape a system, and live events taught me to shape a room.
Earlier
How I got here.
- Art DirectorNivra / TorahVR2021–2023
- IllustratorChabad.org — published editorial illustration2021
- AnimatorTorah Visuals2020–2021
- Graphic DesignerNo3rd2019–2021
- MasterAfter Effects · Procreate
- ProfessionalPhotoshop · Illustrator
- WorkingBlender · Unreal Engine
Current
What I'm doing now.
- Motion & event designFreelance. Selected clients include FIDF, Colel Chabad, Bonei Olam, Chai Lifeline, JLI, Friendship Circle and Keter, among others.2023–
- AI infrastructureAt Merkos 302 I build TorahAPI and reusable AI infrastructure: custom named-entity recognition, OCR and BERT models.2026–
- TechniquesShape-layer animation for dimensional effect · character animation and rigging · After Effects composition breakdowns · digital painting
06 — Testimonials
Testimonials.
Yitzchok is a highly skilled artist, who can create complex masterpieces as well as simpler illustrations. He works well under tight deadlines, and always delivers what he sets out to create.
A talent of the highest order. The originality of his work speaks for itself and his communication skills when dealing with a client is of the first order.