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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I've written a book about Rigging and Animation in Blender for Packt Publishing. You can get the files here.
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.
... if sensational animated game trailers keep coming like these :) Now there is this wonderful piece of animation made by Passion Pictures to promote Rock Band Beatles:
The YouTube video was removed, so I changed the video source. It is a good idea to download a hi resolution version on GameTrailers website. Great games-related animation keeps popping up everywhere, and this one is derived from a tiny, unsuccessful and basically unknown movie franchise about some guys in a galaxy far, far away. ;) It was made by folks at Blur studios, and it's better than lots of things done exclusively for the big screen. Thanks to my friend Adson for the tip. :) Yesterday Pixar's Up had its premiere all over the world. Except in Brasil =P Insted of watching the teaser trailer for Toy Story 3 in the theater, I had to visit Cartoon Brew to know about that. The new movie will be released in June, 2010. This time I hope Disney Brasil doesn't mess things up again (pun intended). ;) ------------ Oh... and case you didn't notice, Blender 2.49 is released! Go download it while it's hot :) If only judging it by the title sequence. :)
The Amazing Adventures of Kid Cole & Klay from Stephane coedel on Vimeo. This opening was directed by Stephane Coedel for a non-produced Cartoon Network pilot called The Amazing Adventures of Kid Cole and Klay. I found it very cool the way they produced it: only with Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects they achieved a very nice looking 50s style. Sad it wasn't produced. At least they seemed to have had a pretty good time doing it. :) Project Durian had inspired me to try and change my style a little bit, and also to take off the dust from my cheap and humble tablet: I started with a very rough and small drawing in a piece of paper, to serve as main reference of posing, proportions, forms and angles. Because it wasn't any close to a finished drawing I didn't bother to scan it, but just held it in front my webcam to take a picture: In past Ubuntu versions it was way too boring to configure this tablet, but since last October things got very easier and painless. Big hooray to the devs! So it was just a matter of opening The Gimp, that got lots of improvements on its painting tools in the last version (hooray again!), and playing for a while. :)
2009-Jun-02:
Star Wars: The Old Republic
2009-May-30:
Toy Story 3 teaser trailer
2009-May-28:
I would watch this cartoon
2009-May-21:
I have cleaned up the dust from my tablet...
