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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 Genk Research Unit, in the 'Critical reflections of and through animation' cluster. 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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2007-Dec-17: Back to work!
Back to work!

Well... my vacations are now over.

My little project isn't, though. =/

Fortunately I've managed to do a lot of things on it. I think I could end up with something cool, but now I'll have to slow down the production because of my job.

I'm trying to apply on it some aspects I want to study: animate acting and weight, create layout and backgrounds and develop a reasonable plot. It's important to notice that - besides Blender - I'm using Audacity, Gimp and Inkscape a lot. I'll be giving you some updates soon. =)

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Found a great commercial, made by the great director Sylvain Chomet, from the classic "Les Triplettes de Belleville". I don't know how old is this commercial, but I had found it last week. =)

I'm really looking forward to his next production (The Illusionist), which will be out on 2009.

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The new Horton Hears a Who trailer, from the awesome guys at Bluesky, is fantastic. I had already liked a lot their teaser, but this one makes sure that we'll have at least one great movie next year. =)

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Well... basically it's all for today. Now that my vacations are over I'll be updating this blog more often.

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