Virgilio Vasconcelos' keywords: Perspectivism; Technics; UFMG; Gilles Deleuze; Noam Chomsky; Paulo Freire; Heterotopias; Gilbert Simondon; Michel Foucault; GNU/Linux; Rigging; Research; Remix; Donna Haraway; Privacy; Digital Arts; Free Software; Education; Animation; Open Access; Pierre Bourdieu; Punk Rock; Bernard Stiegler; Re:Anima; Copyleft; Debian; Ailton Krenak; Ubuntu; Fedora; Democracy; LUCA School of Arts; Krita; Decolonial thinking; Digital Animation; Jacques Derrida; Diversity; Python; Art; Cosmotechnics; David Graeber; OpenToonz; Blender; Re-existence.

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.

2009-Nov-16: Old school CG in Star Wars

Found this awesome video with the making of CG in Star Wars (1977). Man... what those guys did with so little computing power is amazing:

Personal note: don't EVER complaint about something being "difficult" to make in 3D again. ;)

Saw it at MeioBit.

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2009-Nov-13: What if...

... Gobelins made an Anime?

(If they didn't, already) I believe it would look something like this:

This short is directed by (21-years-old!!!) Hiroyasu Ishida. If your Japanese is up to date, go to his website. Even if it isn't, go see the pictures. ;)

Saw at Cartoon Brew.

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2009-Nov-12: Seagulls Fly new reel

The guys at the Brazilian studio Seagulls Fly had just realeased their new demo reel. Only top notch stuff:

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2009-Nov-10: Pigeon Impossible

Do you remember Pigeon Impossible? After almost 5 years in production and a festival run (with some cool awards), the short produced by Lucas Martell is available online:

If you didn't know about it, go watch Martell's excelent production podcast.

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2009-Nov-09: Real wacky races

Do you remember Wacky Races?

That isn't exactly breaking news, but it's so cool I couldn't resist talking about it here. At this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed they payed a homage to the famous Hanna-Barbera cartoon with a race with real life version of the cars and characters! :)

Be sure to check out the official video of it and these pictures.

Man, this is way too cool! Wish I saw them with my own eyes!

Thanks Guilherme for the tip.

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