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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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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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2008-Jan-15: Rata-two-dee
Rata-two-dee

Do you already have your Ratatouille DVD? If you do, you have certainly watched Your Friend the Rat. As I said before in this blog, it was the first 'non-3D' Pixar production.

I brought him again into the chat because of the blog from one of its directors, Jim Capobianco (the other is Nate Wragg, which also has a pretty cool blog with his great personal artwork).

There is a lot of stuff on this little charming production, like the production photos. It's nice to know, for example, how the blackboard scene actually used one instead of some sort of digital mimic.

For those who are interested, Amazon is selling the "Little Golden Book" about it for only U$ 2,99

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