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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

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! :)