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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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About

I'm an Animation Professor at LUCA School of Arts, campus C-mine in Genk, Belgium. I teach at the Re:Anima Joint Master in Animation and I'm a senior researcher at the Inter-Actions Research Unit. My research interests include philosophy of Technics, power relations inscribed in and reinforced by technical objects, and decolonial perspectives in animation. Previously, I was an Animation Professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Brazil. MFA and PhD by the Graduate Program in Arts at EBA/UFMG. I'm also a free software advocate, animator, rigger and I also like to code. You can see some of my works and know a bit more about me at:

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Blender Animation Book

I've written a book about Rigging and Animation in Blender for Packt Publishing. You can get the files here.

Old Blog

Yes, I had a blog. Haven't updated it since 2011. Anyway, if you need something from there I have kept backwards compatibility and you can read it below.

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2009-Mar-20: Friday links

I saw some cool things that I wanted to share:

I'll begin with the first movie from Sony Pictures Animation after their magnificent Surf's Up: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Looks like fun, with some subtle changes in the visual approach from what we normally see in CG animated movies nowadays. I'm not as excited with this as I was with the first Surf's Up trailer, but I prefer to say something more conclusive after watching the actual film. :)

Another cool thing is the news that Pixar's Up will be the first animated movie ever to open the Cannes Film Festival. Maybe that's an important step to get animated movies recognized as a valid form of film making, and not just "something for kids".

The last for today is a cool interview with Ton Roosendaal. Blender Foundation's chairman talks about a user survey for 3D apps made by CG Geenie website, where Blender stood out with the highest ratings. :)

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