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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:

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.

2007-Jul-16: Reality Shows could be a good catch

Flip blog has brought us an interesting thought on Reality Shows: they can be an excellent source of information on expressions and acting.

As we have to express the character's feelings on our animations, using reference clips of people on real situations can be a good catch.

Article pointed out by André Forni's blog.

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2007-Jul-13: Pepeland student demo reel

It's available for download the new student demo reel from Pepe-school-land, property of the excellent spanish animator Daniel Martinez Lara.

He has declared recently that a new 3D app came into his life: Blender

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2007-Jul-13: Disney reusing frames

For those who believe that reusing of frames is just for saturday morning cartoons...

Hemmy.net has pointed out some examples of Disney reusing frames, although those are significantly harder to spot than the ones on "He Man" =D

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2007-Jul-12: Visualizing taste

Michel Gagné was contacted by Brad Bird to create a series of animated vignettes for Ratatouille, with abstract representations of what the character was tasting.

If you have already watched the movie, you probably know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, turn off this computer and go to the theater NOW! =D

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