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

2008-Oct-25: Phii

It's simple and funny. Well... I like it. :)

Meet Phii. I found it while browsing by 3d4all.org. There are only two episodes at this moment, but I'm looking for more. :)

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2008-Oct-24: Autodesk buys Softimage

Maya, Max, XSI...

I have a bad feeling about this, young Padawan.

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2008-Oct-23: Madagascar: Escape to Africa - featurette

Whether you like DreamWorks' Madagascar (I do) or not, the talent of the artists on that studio is something undeniable.

Animation World Network brings us a featurette with behind the scenes of the upcoming release from Jeffrey Katzenberg's studio. There's an ad before the video, but I assure you it is worth  waiting for. :)

Man... aren't those digital paintings of African savannah gorgeous?

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2008-Oct-23: Buraco de Bala new website

A few days ago the guys at Buraco de Bala put their new website online.

These guys have some really great works. Be sure you watch them. :)

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2008-Oct-21: Mormon 2 - the computer version

I found this website called xtranormal.com which has a slogan: "If you can type, you can make movies."

I don't agree with that statement at all, although I think they've accomplished an interesting system (from a developer point of view).

But in order to make a movie, or an animated movie in this case, one needs MUCH more than the ability to put his/her fingers on a keyboard.

I made this movie their system as a joke to show how much I disagree with their statement:

"Ok - one smart guy can say - this is a movie."

But it is a very crappy one, don't you think? :)

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