Project
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Silent Vigil
Year
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2025
Category
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Illustrator CGI
Editor
Silent Vigil began as a single piece of concept art - a quiet, solemn moment frozen in time. It has now evolved into a CGI short that captures the haunting stillness after war. The animation portrays soldiers standing in silent anticipation, waiting for those who may never return. With its restrained visuals and emotional depth, Silent Vigil transforms a fleeting image into a powerful meditation on loss, loyalty, and the echoes of conflict.
Project
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Silent Vigil
Year
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2025
Visual style
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Stylized 3D — hand-painted 2D aesthetic
Collaboration
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ARC Studio
Category
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CGI Short Film — Personal Project
Deliverable
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Unreal Engine 5
Silent Vigil began as a single piece of concept art — a quiet, solemn moment frozen in time. That image became a question: what would it feel like in motion?
The answer is a CGI short built in Unreal Engine 5 to look like painted 2D animation. Soldiers stand in silent anticipation, waiting for those who may never return. The restrained visuals aren't a limitation — they're the point. Stillness, in this world, carries more weight than action.
Silent Vigil sits at the intersection of two things I keep returning to: the emotional economy of a single image, and what real-time rendering can do when pushed toward a painterly aesthetic rather than photorealism.
It's a direction I want to take further.
