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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

Almost a week without posting here... sigh.

The last thing I talked about here was about Wall-E premiere. After that, 6 days of silence.

Some may think that this silence was some kind of homage to this near silent Andrew Stanton movie. Unfortunately it was only lack of time for posting new things. This week is being extremely busy for me, as I'm in another city for work reasons since Monday.

Fortunately I got a little free time today, so I managed not only to write this post but also to go watch Wall E for the second time. If you didn't watch it yet, please do a favor to yourself and buy a ticket to this movie. =)

Wall-E is simply wonderful and, in my humble opinion, makes the word "genius" to be placed right after the name Andrew Stanton. After all, it is somewhat common to be a director of a couple of movies: what is really something is to have "Finding Nemo" and "Wall E" as their names.

CG Society has a cool article on the technical things of this movie, and USA Today has this another one which points out some things that make Wall E really stand from the crowd of animated movies.

And I didn't even talk about Presto, which is so amazing that deserves a place along with some Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry shorts. And there is no higher compliment to any animated short. =)

If iTunes store is open to your country, I think it really worth paying US$ 1,99 to have this short in your computer.

And now I hope my blogging routine return to be as usual. =)

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