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Virgilio Vasconcelos

Virgilio Vasconcelos' keywords: Cosmotechnics; Blender; David Graeber; Free Software; Heterotopias; Open Access; Privacy; Research; Ailton Krenak; Remix; Education; Copyleft; Gilles Deleuze; Fedora; Democracy; Technics; Donna Haraway; Gilbert Simondon; LUCA School of Arts; OpenToonz; Art; GNU/Linux; Debian; Paulo Freire; Perspectivism; Re:Anima; Decolonial thinking; Rigging; Michel Foucault; Pierre Bourdieu; Bernard Stiegler; Digital Animation; Python; UFMG; Animation; Krita; Diversity; Punk Rock; Ubuntu; Jacques Derrida; Digital Arts; Noam Chomsky; 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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2008-Mar-22: Did you see Shrek?

I mean... the real one?

Maurice Tillet, a very intelligent french polyglot, poet and actor, developed a disease called acromegaly during his twenties.

After that, he went to United States and started working as a professional wrestler, being dubbed as the "freak ogre of the ring".

Before his death, from heart disease at age 51, a friend of him asked if he could make a plaster cast of his face. Maurice agreed, and some people around the net (just Google for his name) says that Shrek was modeled after him. Just a weird coincidence?

*Thanks to Suryara for the tip.


(3) Comments

22/Mar/2008
kernond said:

Wow! There's no doubt Shrek's design was at least influenced by him. Too many things line up for it to merely be coincidence. I thought the first photo was PS'ed. Interesting.


24/Mar/2008
Anonymous said:

Hmm, this must have been some guy. He agreed to a plaster cast of his face after his death?!?!

"After his death, from heart disease at age 51... Maurice agreed..."


24/Mar/2008
Virgilio said:

hahahahahahha!!!

Thanks for pointing that out, Anonymous! I'll fix it now... =)