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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

BlenderNewbies DVD tutorial compilation

Saw today at Blender Newbies website a cool thing: there is now for sale a DVD compilation of the tutorials.

It made me think about a CGTalk thread on the new Blender release, where a forum user complained about the lack of documentation and training. In my humble opinion, this is a problem that gets smaller every day, since lots of new tutorials and trainings are popping around.

As examples, I can point Andy's DVD, Bassam Kurdali's one, Tony Mullen's books (1 and 2), Roland Hess' Essential Blender and Animating with Blender. I received the latter on my mailbox yesterday, sent by the publisher for a review. Soon I will talk about it with you. :)

Back to the DVD, some things I found cool about it:

  • Over 14 hours of video tutorials;
  • Better sound and resolution than the online versions;
  • The videos were revised/corrected;

You can get more info on its website.

Much easier get info on using Blender today than when I first started, with version 2.28. :D

(2) Comments

16/Oct/2008
Aaron said:

I ordered my copy!

Can't wait for it to come I'm so anxious...


18/Oct/2008
kernond said:

Thanks for the post! :)