Ido Hartmann — Motion Designer & 3D Artist
Art Director, 3D Artist & Motion Designer based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Award-winning creator with extensive experience in film, television, advertising, music videos, and interactive media. Specializes in 3D animation, compositing, and visual storytelling. Graduate of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Seven-time Israeli Academy Award nominee.
Notable projects: The Unimportant (KAN11), Kafka's Last Trial (KAN11), The Shadow of the Sun, Cinema Rex (Annecy, Chicago), DreamFlix.
Also builds After Effects plugins at mess.tools — MessCtrl (After Effects command bar, $15) and FiziFlo (2D physics simulation, $49).
Contact: ido@idoharti.com
Portfolio Projects
Feature Documentary — 2025 — KAN 11
Role: Art Director & Animation Director
Kafka died asking Max Brod to burn his manuscripts. Brod refused, and that decision became a long fight over who owns Kafka's words. The film follows the papers from Kafka's tiny room in Prague to safes, apartments, archives, and finally a Tel Aviv courtroom.
Winner - Best Documentary, Haifa International Film Festival (2024)
Explainer Video — 2025
Role: Art Director, Motion Designer
Explainer video for t42's TETIS device. A small unit on the box sends live data about location and condition to the customer's platform, showing how TETIS makes a closed metal container visible and manageable in real time.
Concept Ad — 2026
Role: Motion Direction, AI Integration
A concept motion ad for a fictional Figma feature called 'Depth' - a button that instantly turns UI into 3D. The project demonstrates a harmonic workflow mixing After Effects, 3D, and AI as a controlled layer in production.
Music Videos — 2025
Role: Direction, 3D Animation
Two 3D music videos with a painterly look for Van Lupo. Lonely, slightly surreal characters move through offices, streets, and dreamlike spaces that mirror the bittersweet songs, blending small story moments with performance.
Docu-Animated TV Series — 2020-2024 — KAN 11
Role: Co-Creator, Art Director & Animation Director
A docu-animated series about small stories that echo bigger Israeli history. Each episode focuses on one forgotten event or voice, and together 4 seasons and 32 episodes build an alternative, emotional history of the country.
Winner - FIAT/IFTA International Film Festival (2022) | 7 Nominations - Israeli Academy Awards (2022-2024)
Game Advertisement — 2025
Role: Motion Design
Short promo videos for BubbleBusters and MatchMasters, built for YouTube, TikTok, and social feeds. Each spot mixes gameplay, UI, and bold graphics to show how the games feel, what's fun, and why you'd want to hit download.
Special Independence Day Episode — 2025 — KAN 11
Role: Creator, Art Director & Animator
A special Independence Day episode about the Susita, Israel's fiberglass car, and the dreamer behind it. Through interviews, Jimbo J's narration, and animation, it shows how one person's fantasy gets tangled with a country's self-image.
Explainer Video — 2022
Role: Motion Design
Motion graphics for the European Research Council's Gender Mosaic project, with Tel Aviv University. The video explains the interactive study in clear language, shows how to take part, and invites viewers to join.
Docu-Animation — 2019
Role: Creator
Boaz cuts himself off from his family, friends, and former life. This 7 minute hybrid animated documentary traces his disappearance through the memories of those he left behind.
2nd Place - Asif Festival (Students Category), 2019 | 1st Place - Short to the Point Festival, Romania 2020 | 1st Place - Kino, London 2020 | 1st Place - Queen Palm International Film Festival, USA 2020 | 1st Place - Ocean Coast Film Festival, Portugal 2020 | 1st Place - Moscow Shorts, Russia 2020 | 1st Place - Short Film Factory Romania 2020 | 1st Place - Reykjavik Visions Film Festival, Iceland 2020
Animated Short — 2020
Role: Compositor, VFX
An animated short about a friendship between a Jewish boy and an Arab girl in 1920s Jerusalem, centered on Cinema Rex. As compositor, I helped turn hand drawn art into a unified film.
Winner - Annecy International Animation Festival (Animated Shorts) | Winner - Chicago International Film Festival
Feature Film (Musical) — 2024 — United King
Role: Post Production Manager, Opening Title Sequence
A feature-length Israeli musical set between the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War. I managed post production for a year and designed and animated the opening titles.
Short Musical Animation — 2019 — Naamat
Role: Creator, 3D Animation
Barry can watch anything and chooses nothing. This short musical follows his breakdown in the age of endless streaming, using 3D and 2D animation to show his overloaded brain.
Animation Loop — 2019
Role: Animator
A one minute animation loop made for a Na'amat exhibition on healthy relationships. Several animators contributed loops to raise awareness around sexual harassment among youth.
1st Place - Asif Festival
Song Teaser Animation — 2024
Role: Creator
An animated teaser for a track by D Fine Us (Tomer Katz), created with Midjourney imagery, Photoshop, and After Effects. It sets a moody, rhythmic visual tone for the song without giving away the full story.