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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

Cool things of the weekend

I saw some cool things this weekend that I want to share with you:

  • First comes a cool animated short, which illustrates this post: E.T.A, from the German Danish (thanks, Morten) guys at JunkWorks (pretty ironic name, huh?);
  • The second is a cool new video about Wall-E production. This time the focus is on cinematography, showing some decisions made for camera and illumination. I'm counting days till June 27th;
  • The third is not related to animation, but I also think is cool: the browser Opera 9.5 is available for download. I've been using Firefox 3 beta for some time, and also the previous Opera version. I found this new one to be very light on resources needed, quicker on rendering pages and very cool new visuals and features (but I still love "speed dial", that was available since previous versions). A recommended download. =)

 

(4) Comments

16/Jun/2008
Joel said:

Hey thanks for pointing that short out, it was really great!

The design of that "coffee machine" reminded me of some of Giger's paintings...


16/Jun/2008
Morten said:

These guys are acutally from Denmark


16/Jun/2008
Morten said:

And it is truely an amazing piece of work :)


16/Jun/2008
Virgilio said:

Hi, Morten! Thanks for the heads up!

I have already corrected that on the article. =)