Tech Animator · Tech Artist · UE 5
Animation
systems
for Unreal.
I'm Diego Balarezo, building locomotion, procedural layers, modular characters and runtime tooling for shipped AAA on consoles, PC, Switch and mobile.
LEGO Fortnite
Niagara-based VFX creation for LEGO versions of Fortnite emotes, adapting visual effects to the LEGO visual style.
No More Room in Hell 2
Implemented gameplay animation systems for player characters and AI in this cooperative multiplayer survival horror shooter.
Metal Eden
Developed gameplay animation systems for enemy AI characters including humanoid enemies, robots, and mechs.
Nyan Heroes
Built the full gameplay animation system from scratch for a multiplayer shooter featuring cats controlling mechs.
Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway
Contributed as Technical Artist handling shaders, tools development, art optimization, and lighting.
Unannounced AAA Projects
Senior Technical Animator on AAA multiplayer online shooters under NDA, building gameplay animation systems and multiplayer pipelines.
Tech anim
reel.
How it
works.
Locomotion
systems
Speed × Yaw blendspaces, stride-warping, transitions and tag-driven state graphs. Built for shooter pacing.
Modular
characters
One base skeleton powering many characters and enemies. Animation sharing & runtime retargeting at scale, Fortnite-style.
Runtime
retargeting
Cross-skeleton animation reuse at runtime. Drives the modular-character pipeline so animators stop duplicating work.
Additive lean, aim, recoil and hits driven by camera velocity, weapon state and gameplay tags.
State graphs & tag-driven setups so AI bridges read clean across enemy archetypes.
Dynamic capes, ponytails, cables and accessories that read correctly through locomotion and combat.
Unreal-native
technical
animation.
I'm a Technical Animator & Tech Artist based in Lima, Peru, fully focused on Unreal Engine 5. I build the systems and tooling that let animators and engineers ship at scale: locomotion, procedural layers, modular characters and AI-ready setups.
My work lives at the intersection of animation, optimization and pipeline, making characters reusable Fortnite-style with runtime retargeting and animation sharing, plus dynamic systems like cloth and danglies that survive contact with gameplay.
Shipped on consoles, PC, Switch and mobile with studios like Reikon Games, Torn Banner Studios, Bamtang Games, 9 Lives Interactive and Epic via Agora Studio.