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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-Oct-19: Old news, new news

Yeah... time to take the dust off this blog! :)

Lots of work (combined with a little indiscipline) made that I went away from writing here, but I'll try my best with this post. ;)


The video we made for the song My Favorite Way was nominated Video of the year on MTV! We didn't win that, but I see this nomination as a prize in itself. :)


Speaking of prizes... I'm humbled and extremely happy to know I won "Best Character Animation" at Blender Pro (Brazilian Blender Conference)! :D

The piece that won this prize was "Monster":

Thank you very much to everyone who voted for this piece, and my kudos to all winners and everyone who helped make another successful Blender Pro! :)


One more thing... I just want to say that I'm working in a completely new version of my rig Otto. And I mean completely:

I've been studying various rigging approaches, from Blender and other apps. I'm going to try some cool things I've found, bringing the best I see on those rigs.

With the upcoming Blender 2.5, it doesn't make much sense to release a final version now. So the actual release will be only after the final 2.5.

And that's all, folks! ;)

(3) Comments

19/Oct/2009
Pablo Lizardo said:

Good news virgilio!! and nice new aspect of Otto Rig!!
Congrats for the award!


22/Oct/2009
José Fernando Reinicke said:

Olá Virgílio,

Grato por seu comentário lá no blog =)
... e aproveitando, deixo os meus parabéns pelo prêmio de "Melhor Animação de Personagens" da Blender Pro. º/ Mais que merecido!!

Sorte e Sucesso!!
Reinicke


22/Oct/2009
Virgilio said:

Oi, pessoal! :)

@Pablo: Thanks a lot! Nice hear from you again! ;)

@Reinicke! :)

Pôxa... eu que agradeço a retribuição e suas palavras!

Você tem feito muita coisa bacana para os usuários de Blender, além de ter um ótimo trabalho.

Grande abraço!