Virgilio Vasconcelos' keywords: Technics; Krita; GNU/Linux; Noam Chomsky; Animation; Fredric Jameson; Privacy; Free Software; Rigging; Re-existence; Pierre Bourdieu; Metamodernism; UFMG; LUCA School of Arts; Python; Punk Rock; Cosmotechnics; Heterotopias; Ubuntu; Debian; Perspectivism; Open Access; Digital Animation; Copyleft; Paulo Freire; Decolonial thinking; Diversity; Gilbert Simondon; Donna Haraway; Michel Foucault; Remix; Aníbal Quijano; Democracy; Education; David Graeber; Artistic Research; Bernard Stiegler; Blender; Re:Anima; Jacques Derrida; Ailton Krenak; Digital Arts; Mark Fisher; Fedora; Gilles Deleuze; 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-Apr-15: Ollie Johnston: 1912-2008

Via Cartoon Brew:

The end of an era.

The last of the Nine Old Men, Ollie Johnston, passed away today in Sequim, Washington at the age of 95.