Project
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Emberath
Year
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2024
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CGI Cinematic — Personal Project
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Blender → Unreal Engine 5
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Horror / Sci-Fi
Emberath began as a concept art series — a horror sci-fi world built image by image, exploring the boundary between the human and the elemental. The short film brings those paintings into motion.
Character
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Emberath
Emberath rises from the ashes of a forgotten world, her body aflame with a force she never asked for. Fire consumes her — not as a weapon, but as an extension of her very being. The line between flesh and flame blurs, and with it, her connection to what she once was.
Origin
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Painting to cinematic
Emberath started as a set of interconnected concept paintings — each one building the world before any animation existed. Bringing those paintings into motion was the next logical step: a way to understand what it takes to carry emotion across time, not just in a single frame.
This was my first animated short, built to push the pipeline and explore what UE5 could do in a character-driven cinematic context. The concept art drove every decision — environment, lighting, mood, camera. The film exists to serve the character, not the other way around.
Emberath is an ongoing world. The concept art continues to expand beyond what made it into the short — new characters, environments, and narrative threads that belong to the same universe.
If you're working on a project that needs original world-building, character concept art, or CGI cinematic work — this is the kind of thinking I bring to it.