Daniel Salazar
Lead Technical Artist at Blender Foundation
San José Metropolitan Area Costa Rica
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Salazar is a Lead Technical Artist and Blender specialist with over 16 years of professional experience and more than 20 years crafting advanced rigging and animation systems. Based in San José, Costa Rica, he combines deep hands-on expertise in both 2D and photorealistic 3D rigging with a strong product mindset from co-founding web 3D tools like p3d.in and community platforms such as GraphicAll.org. A Blender Foundation Certified Trainer since 2008—one of the first four worldwide—he regularly lectures and has shaped curricula and pipelines for studios, universities, and open movie projects. Daniel’s work blends technical architecture, tool development, and pedagogy, making him equally comfortable building render farms or shipping production-ready rigging frameworks. Unexpectedly, his career bridges grassroots open-source distribution (1.5M annual downloads at GraphicAll) and commercial studio leadership, giving him rare insight into both community-driven and productized 3D workflows.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad LCI Veritas
Spanish, English
Github Skills (7)
ui-design10
3d10
modeling9
animation8
computer-graphics8
render7
rendering7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PatazAnimation/blender-wiggle-2
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Rewrite of blender-wiggle with new features and physics
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 day
PatazAnimation/pataz-toolz
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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