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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

Saw at Matt Ebb's blog a link where we can download some videos of some Blender Conference presentations.

One of them, as noticed by Matt, is by Big Buck Bunny animator William Reynish. The title is "The evolution of Blenders User Interface", and it is a great study on how Blender's interface was built and what should be improved to the next major version (2.5).

There are some really clever and important notes on the interface that could really improve Blender's UI. I really recommend you to watch it and, if possible, help contribute with this new version. :)

(2) Comments

26/Oct/2008
kernond said:

Interesting presentation.

BTW, I think the community should seriously do a donation drive to purchase the BF a good clip-on microphone for these conference presentations. Every year, a lot of great presentations are ruined by inaudible presenters. They rarely speak INTO the microphone and they keep moving away from it.

Thanks.


26/Oct/2008
Dread Knight said:

This presentation is great and really interests me.
Going to watch the remaining part right now :-)