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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 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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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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2007-Sep-06: The future of animation - or "I hate MoCap"

Why study animation, when we have MoCap?

MoCap is the wonderful (yes, I'm being ironic) technology that brought us The Polar Express, Monster House and Beowulf.

This time I won't list the reasons why I hate this technology. Instead I'll list some animations (1, 2, 3, 4) that will make you feel like I do when I think about MoCap.

(2) Comments

06/Sep/2007

kernond said:

LMAO!! There is no way, in all of the Earth, that you could have picked a more horrific collection of "animation". Thanks for the laugh.

07/Sep/2007

Henrique Zorzan said:

Mas vale não sabe animar do que fazer umas aberrações destas...;) Abraços