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 Genk Research Unit, in the 'Critical reflections of and through animation' cluster. 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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I've written a book about Rigging and Animation in Blender for Packt Publishing. You can get the files here.
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.
From time to time I stumble upon some nice articles on John Lasseter. This one, by The Hollywood Reporter talks a little about the story of a guy who was fired from Disney. A few years later, he became one of the most influential people in the history of animation and, in a stunning turn of events, became the Chief Creative Officer of the same company that fired him in the past. Isn't that a good story? :)
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2008-Oct-27:
The Hollywood Reporter on John Lasseter
Yeah, remind me the history of Steve Jobs. Fired of Apple and today....
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