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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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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 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.

From the newest to oldest animation

Almost a week without posting... sigh. =P

It seemed to me that the beginning of March would set a new era for me, with more free time to spend on personal things.

What happened was quite the opposite: my job took from me even my weekends' nights!

Fortunately, looks like it was just an exception, and from now on (I believe) I will have more free time to spend on my little short, and to make more frequent posts here. =)

But, what does it all have to do with this post's title?

Well... nothing, actually. But from the next paragraph on, it will have:

Some days ago I saw at Victor Navone's blog a post about a really really cool animation, developed with a new technique called "Stratastencil". It's experimental, with an interesting looking and worth checking out.

As a contrast, I read the news that the oldest animation known was discovered. It was made 5,200 years ago in some kind of bowl, in a place that is now in Iran.

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Changing the subject a bit, but still talking about animation, here's a cool one made by an Animation Mentor graduate.

(1) Comments

11/Mar/2008
kernond said:

That "Stratastencil" techique looks like a job for an array modifier, maybe?