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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.

2008-May-23: Music for animation geeks

A young South African artist named Nick Bertke has made a song with cut outs from the Disney classic Alice.

I saw it here.

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2008-May-21: More on Kung Fu Panda

Raving reviews on Kung Fu Panda are popping around, by those who had access to preview screenings of this movie.

This time Floyd Bishop wrote an article about his great impressions of the movie.

Will this be the DreamWorks' masterpiece?

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2008-May-20: The Illusionist

I have just realized that I'm looking forward to a lot of movies. One of them is The Illusionist, directed by Sylvain Chomet (Les Triplettes of Belleville).

This movie had a first footage screening on this Cannes Festival. The realease (France and UK) will be in 2009.

I read about it on Cartoon Brew, which also brought an interesting part of a 2004 article written by the director, telling about some of his moments when working at Disney.

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2008-May-19: Blender 2.46!

Yep. Now it it is official!

You must run to get the new official 2.46 Blender release. And don't miss the long new feature list! =)

I'm using a self-compiled version from SVN from a while, so I can say that this version is truly awesome. Among all the goodies, I am really happy with the new rigging features and the changes in the sequence editor, but there is a lot of great things like the rewritten particle system.

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2008-May-19: The Snake and Mouse - Making Of

Saw at Henrique Zorzan's blog a great link:

The Making of "Snake and Mouse", by Anna Celarek. She used ZBrush for modeling and Blender to the rest of the work. Very impressive! =)

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