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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.

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2008-Jun-20: Animation Tips And Tricks Blog

Now the three Animation Mentor founders have a blog. =D

Carlos Baena and Bobby Beck have been writing for a while, but now Shawn Kelly also joined the bloggers club. I found it very cool that he used his famous column "Animation Tips & Tricks" on Animation Mentor as the subject of his blog. Another one to be on my daily read list. =D

And talking about Animation, Tips and Tricks, I found this cool video at Spline Doctors. Interesting as reference for facial rigs:

(1) Comments

20/Jun/2008

pinK said:

Wow... is a great news! The other day I want to know if Shawn have a blog... now yes! :D

Thank you for sharing it ^^