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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-Nov-03: How to train your dragon

I must say I wasn't very excited about How To Train Your Dragon, by DreamWorks. Even though it is directed by the great Chris Sanders, I still shiver when I remember the absolutely terrible Monsters vs Aliens, the last movie from that studio. Fortunately this trailer shows that this upcoming movie is closer to Kung Fu Panda in terms of quality than to bombs like MvA and Shark Tale:

I loved the character design and animation. It entered my list of awaited movies for 2010.

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