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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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