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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.

From the newest to oldest animation

Almost a week without posting... sigh. =P

It seemed to me that the beginning of March would set a new era for me, with more free time to spend on personal things.

What happened was quite the opposite: my job took from me even my weekends' nights!

Fortunately, looks like it was just an exception, and from now on (I believe) I will have more free time to spend on my little short, and to make more frequent posts here. =)

But, what does it all have to do with this post's title?

Well... nothing, actually. But from the next paragraph on, it will have:

Some days ago I saw at Victor Navone's blog a post about a really really cool animation, developed with a new technique called "Stratastencil". It's experimental, with an interesting looking and worth checking out.

As a contrast, I read the news that the oldest animation known was discovered. It was made 5,200 years ago in some kind of bowl, in a place that is now in Iran.

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Changing the subject a bit, but still talking about animation, here's a cool one made by an Animation Mentor graduate.

(1) Comments

11/Mar/2008
kernond said:

That "Stratastencil" techique looks like a job for an array modifier, maybe?