Yooooooooo this is really cool!

Can't help you at all with coding or finding programmers. But I just wanted to chime in and say that the animations look really good. And it seems like the Unreal engine is going to work really well if you can figure out the glitches in the blended animations.

Keep at it! You're learning a lot of valuable skills doing this, even if the game never actually ends up happening.