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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.

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2008-Jun-17: Kung Fu Panda: 2D awesomess at start and end
Kung Fu Panda: 2D awesomess at start and end

Still waiting for the Kung Fu Panda premiere in Brasil, but I couldn't resist watching the great 2D animated parts that went online.

The final credits have been around for some time. That great sequence was animated by DreamWorks artists in conjunction with Shine Studio.

But now it's time for the opening sequence - that one animated by James Baxter studio. I could not watch it only once: It's TOO "legendary" and "awesome". ;)

If you didn't watch this movie (like me) and prefer waiting to view everything on the big screen (not like me), do not click on the links below. Those points to Kevin Koch blog posts with that sequences. He even names the DreamWorks animators who worked on the credits sequence.

(1) Comments

17/Jun/2008
felix said:

yeah, those were awesome, and the credits one loops perfectly! :)