Dereck Lizana2D animator & developer
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Animator by training, developer by habit.

My first stop motion: clay and a camera.

I reimagined my heroes in clay.

As a kid I taught myself to draw.

I dreamed of robots, and of my own Jarvis.

Then I wrote my first assistant in code.

My first CGI: a ball that breaks a cube into light.

At seventeen I moved from Peru to Italy.

School by day; security, web and networks on my own. Zprium grew out of it.

At Nemo I study traditional, 2D and 3D animation, to tell stories people remember.

Kip: Walk Cycle →

Still facing the horizon: freedom, adventure, peace.

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Portrait of Dereck Lizana in a dark suit

I’m Isaac Dereck Lizana Correa — Dereck. I moved to Italy at seventeen, studied informatics, and then followed drawing into animation at Nemo Academy of Digital Arts in Florence, where I’m training in animation for film: classical 2D, anatomy, character design and 3D.

I have always built things on the computer as well. I write TypeScript, self-host automation pipelines with n8n and ComfyUI on a Raspberry Pi, and make real-time 3D for the web — this site included, from its shaders to the server it runs on.

I work where those worlds meet: timing and acting on one side, systems and code on the other.

From the desk

Education

  1. Nemo Academy of Digital Arts (opens in a new tab)

    Florence, Italy

    Animation for film — classical 2D animation, anatomy, character design, 3D.

    Current

  2. Informatics

    Italy

    Studies in informatics and systems; self-taught software development.

    Before the academy

How I work

  1. Timing first

    Whether it is a walk cycle or a page transition, I start from how long things take and where they ease.

  2. Readable silhouettes

    A pose, a layout or an interface should read in a glance. Clarity beats decoration.

  3. Built to last

    I prefer simple systems I can maintain myself: measured, documented, and fast on modest hardware.

Tools in my work

Each tool listed here appears in a project on this site.

Animation & drawing

  • DigiCel FlipBook
  • Light table
  • Pencil & paper
  • Photoshop

3D & motion

  • Blender
  • Autodesk Maya
  • After Effects
  • Illustrator

Code

  • TypeScript
  • three.js / WebGL / GLSL
  • Astro
  • Node.js
  • Docker

Automation

  • n8n
  • ComfyUI
  • Python
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Local LLMs

I also run a small independent business. It lives on its own page, away from the portfolio.

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