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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

Toy Story 3 plot and and interview with Susan Bradley The last days have been the busiest in a long time at work. This is leading to a lack of posts here and, unfortunately, a severe slow down on my little animation project. =/

But fortunately all these time-consuming things have a precise date to an end: in the first days of March, I'll start to have a lot more time (even more than I had last year) to dedicate to animation. =)

And today I saw two neat things related to Pixar:

The first is about Toy Story 3 plot, that was briefly covered on the beginning of an article from The Wall Street Journal. I found it very cool that Pixar crew is dealing with the inevitable: Andy becoming an adult. In the movie, Woody and the other toys are dumped in a day-care center after Andy leaves for college.

The second, which I saw on André Forni's blog, is a very cool interview with Pixar designer Susan Bradley, responsible for things like typography and graphic design pieces seen in the movies. She talks about her recent work on Ratatouille and previous movie projects.

(2) Comments

22/Feb/2008
T. Benjamin Larsen said:

Bom dia!
Eu sou o T. Benjamin Larsen. Sou da Noruega. Como está?

Funny, but whenever I've blog-searched recently I always seem to end up at some Brazilian-blog. Funny bedause I just enrolled in a 20H portuguese-course and that's about as far as I've gotten.

Great blog you got, love your work. I'm really in to animation myself although my main-interest is different ways to tell STORIES rather than animation exclusively. (I am however working on a 2D cell-animation project on my own). Anyway keep up the good work and muito obrigado for the link to that pixar-interview. :)


22/Feb/2008
T. Benjamin Larsen said:

Bom dia!
Eu sou o T. Benjamin Larsen. Sou da Noruega. Como está?

Funny, but whenever I've blog-searched recently I always seem to end up at some Brazilian-blog. Funny bedause I just enrolled in a 20H portuguese-course and that's about as far as I've gotten.

Great blog you got, love your work. I'm really in to animation myself although my main-interest is different ways to tell STORIES rather than animation exclusively. (I am however working on a 2D cell-animation project on my own). Anyway keep up the good work and muito obrigado for the link to that pixar-interview. :)