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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

Cool things of the weekend

I saw some cool things this weekend that I want to share with you:

  • First comes a cool animated short, which illustrates this post: E.T.A, from the German Danish (thanks, Morten) guys at JunkWorks (pretty ironic name, huh?);
  • The second is a cool new video about Wall-E production. This time the focus is on cinematography, showing some decisions made for camera and illumination. I'm counting days till June 27th;
  • The third is not related to animation, but I also think is cool: the browser Opera 9.5 is available for download. I've been using Firefox 3 beta for some time, and also the previous Opera version. I found this new one to be very light on resources needed, quicker on rendering pages and very cool new visuals and features (but I still love "speed dial", that was available since previous versions). A recommended download. =)

 

(4) Comments

16/Jun/2008
Joel said:

Hey thanks for pointing that short out, it was really great!

The design of that "coffee machine" reminded me of some of Giger's paintings...


16/Jun/2008
Morten said:

These guys are acutally from Denmark


16/Jun/2008
Morten said:

And it is truely an amazing piece of work :)


16/Jun/2008
Virgilio said:

Hi, Morten! Thanks for the heads up!

I have already corrected that on the article. =)