Technical Animation Portfolio

Tools: Unreal Engine 5, C++, Blender, Perforce

Project Length: 12+ months (May 2025 - Present)

Project Contributions:

• Built a custom locomotion system from scratch.

  • Features a complex animation state machine with multi-directionality.

  • Makes use of animation layers in order to use the same animation playing logic for different pose types.

  • Makes use of advanced animation nodes such as Stride Warping, Orientation Warping, Sequence Evaluators, and Ground Prediction. 

  • Makes use of animation modifiers such as Distance Matching and Synchronization Markers. 

  • Features additive leaning and jump land recovery with dynamic alpha values. 

  • Works for both the player and on NPCs. 

• Wrote a 35+ page documentation describing how the locomotion system system works for my team to use. 

• Created custom IK Rigs and IK Retargeters for our custom character to use. 

• Created Anim Montages and custom Anim Notifies for attack combos and multi-directional rolls. 

• Used Blender to edit and modify keyframe animations, such as adding more anticipation/ recovery to an attack, or to modify the root distance of a roll. 

• Video Tutorial I created in order to help the combat designer on our team create attack combos for our game Ember's Oath. 

  • It teaches how to export animations from Unreal Engine into Blender, how to use NLA strips to blend multiple attack animations together into a combo, and how to re-import the new animation back into Unreal Engine. 

• Here is an example of a character which I modeled, rigged, weight painted, and animated within Blender.