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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

2008-Apr-26: Blender introduction course TODAY at FLISOL

Yeah, I know that this is VERY near and it was scheduled almost a month ago. Shame on me not to say this before.

Unfortunately I've been with so much work to do these last days that I've been a bit away from blogging.

Fortunately, though, one of these works is a very cool commercial animation that I'll soon show you. =)

So... if you happen to be in Goiânia today (26/04), I'll be giving a short course on Blender at FLISOL (Something like "Latin-American Free Software Instalation Festival"). =)

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2008-Apr-21: Server nightmare!
Server nightmare!

Guys, I'm sorry for these downtime days.

I've been facing frequent server downtimes, and this last one lasted more than a day.

I'll use this uptime period to make a local copy of everything... =P

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2008-Apr-18: Orgesticulanismus

Saw yesterday at Cartoon Brew a post about a fantastic animated short: Orgesticulanismus.

At first I didn't think there was anything so special with it: too slow pace and a language I don't understand (yet, 'cause I want to learn French). But that impression just disappeared after watching 1/3 of it. From that time on, it is an amazing piece of well crafted animation.

Really worth a click. =)

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2008-Apr-17: Wall-E 4 Minute featurette

I don't know if you are (like me) waiting for the Wall-E premiere.

If you're not, maybe these 4 minutes can help you change your mind. =)

Source: SlashFilm

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2008-Apr-16: Horton - Comparison Reel for everyone
Horton - Comparison Reel for everyone

Sometime ago Jeff Garbor made a Comparison Reel about his shots on Horton Hears a Who, from Blue Sky Studios.

Unfortunately the link was already down when I tried to watch it - apparently by a request from Fox.

The good news is that some people who downloaded it managed to distribute the video on some file sharing websites. If you haven't seen it yet, there's still time. =)

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