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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.

Finally a new work online, huh? =)

This is a TV ad I animated to celebrate the 18th Anniversary of Brazilian Children and Teenagers' Statute (also known here as ECA):

In this project, I was responsible for animation, models, rigs and lights. The backgrounds and paintings were created by Jovan de Melo, the soundtrack composed by Carlos Bêla from Lobo and the direction and final composition by Marck Al, from NitrocorpZ studio.

The advertising agency for this was Pagú Propaganda.

The basic idea of the script is that the children and teenagers were considered like objects by the Brazilian Law before the creation of that Statute. After its creation they became to be seen as real individuals, with rights and obligations. In the video, the doll is pulled by the book (Statute) to be transformed into a real boy. (Pinocchio?)

It was a fun project to do and I think the results were pretty good, considering the deadlines. =)

One thing that I found interesting is that the final composition was not done in Blender. It was made in After Effects, and we needed a quick way to render everything in different passes: Ambient Occlusion, diffuse lights, flat colors, motion blur, lines, shadows and reflections.

The cool thing is that the "File Output" node in Blender allows us to save different files simoutaneously at each render. This is really useful and quick to get different passes rendered. Hooray for Blender devs! =)

I'm making a short video to explain that better, but for now I give you two pre-production files: a turnaround on the boy's model and an animation test for the mechanical claw.

(6) Comments

09/Jul/2008
Letícia Reinaldo said:

oi Virgilio!
nunca escrevi aqui antes mas sempre que tem post eu entro! adoro seu trabalho!!! parabens. sou usuaria de blender tb e vc é uma inspiração pra todos!! abraços


09/Jul/2008
Adson said:

Muito Bom virgilio!!!
curti pacas a animação. Eu tava estudando essa semana esse lance de renderizar tudo separado, só que pra montar o final no photoshop (não era uma animação, claro!)


09/Jul/2008
gustavão said:

fístayle!


10/Jul/2008
Andre said:

Da hora vi no blenderartist é muito legal saber que temos gente que faz coisas boas com soft open source.


12/Jul/2008
Pablo Lizardo said:

hey virigilio!, good work, thanks for sharing with us!
good to know that you are creating things all the time!! ;)
Regards and keep blending!


26/Jul/2008
Henrique Zorzan said:

Ola Virgilio! ;)
Excelente como sempre! Interessante esta tecnica de renderizar tudo em separao, já tinha visto alguma coisa mais vou ficar a espera da sua dica! ;)

Um grande abraço!