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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-Oct-24: Autodesk buys Softimage

Maya, Max, XSI...

I have a bad feeling about this, young Padawan.

(4) Comments

24/Oct/2008
Dread Knight said:

Well, most people got scared about this.

At least the pipeline between those packages will be improved.

If i where to use a commercial general 3d package i would most likely use modo and second would be XSI.


It will all be about commercial closed sourced packages vs free / open source.

You pick your side; keep in mind that piracy will end at large scale in the near future.
Do have the $ for those licences? The sooner you make the switch, the better.


24/Oct/2008
Maxwell Barbosa Medeiros said:

Eu vi, andei vendo em vários fóruns(inclusive estrangeiros), orkut... todo mundo ficou espantado. O Blender poderia lucrar com esse episódio, mas precisa de mais incentivos financeiros e de pessoal.


24/Oct/2008
Matt said:

Maybe more big animation studios will begin using Blender!


25/Oct/2008
Aaron said:

Oh god, please don't start that again Matt :p

I'm not quite sure how I feel about the merge. It's nice because there will be better integration but at the same time Autodesk is slowly taking over a big part of the CG industry.