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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-Aug-19: Alarm

Some days ago I stumbled upon this short produced by the Korean studio Mesai.

I liked the premise of it, along with their impeccable work on texturing, modeling and pretty good animation. The only thing that bothered me - although it didn't seemed to be a technical flaw, but an artistic choice - is the main character's face. I felt it didn't make justice to the rest of the work.

Anyhow, a great work:

(2) Comments

19/Aug/2009
kernond said:

That was very good, thanks. I agree that the stylized face was a bit unexpected considering the details of everything else. But, I quickly got used to it.


21/Aug/2009
Reyn said:

Wow, that was a bit surprising! The details are very well placed and made. The cloth simulations are fantastic too! Above all, the animation really carried away every aesthetic aspect of the short, which is just so amazing and moving! Regarding the face, I guess it fits it well enough though, just a tad amount of 2d and 3d mixing. Thanks for sharing! ^_^

-Reyn