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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

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2007-Dec-05: Ward Kimball and stuff
Ward Kimball and stuff

Saw today a great short directed by the master Ward Kimball: Dad, can I borrow your car?

It's amazing how he manages to make everything brilliantly, making history both in animation and jazz! This funny short is another proof that this "old man" is a genius. The image which illustrates this topic is from one painting that he made: "The Comitee", found on Jim Clark's blog.

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The Annie Awards nominees are out. I'm very happy to see that the excellent Surf's Up had its well deserved recognition by receiving 10 nominations. In number of nominations it's in second, following the masterpiece Ratatouille.

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And a great tip from Djalma Madureira: animation produced by Bitstate to the band Plastic Operator.

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Now... back to my little project while I'm still on vacation. =)

(1) Comments

07/Dec/2007
pablo said:

hello virgilio! i notice that you are starting a new project!, congratulations!... can you tell us something about that?, personally i enjoy a lot to see your work.
well, nothing more for now... go on and happy vacations!