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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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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.

I found this website called xtranormal.com which has a slogan: "If you can type, you can make movies."

I don't agree with that statement at all, although I think they've accomplished an interesting system (from a developer point of view).

But in order to make a movie, or an animated movie in this case, one needs MUCH more than the ability to put his/her fingers on a keyboard.

I made this movie their system as a joke to show how much I disagree with their statement:


"Ok - one smart guy can say - this is a movie."

But it is a very crappy one, don't you think? :)

(5) Comments

22/Oct/2008
Rodrigo Santiago said:

Hauhauhau. é muito feio. Parece playmobil.kkkkk
eu acho que a tentativa de facilitação para que as pessoas possam "achar" que podem fazer qualquer coisa hoje, é que faz com que tenhamos um monte de gente incompetente criando trabalhos lixo, "celebridades", "artistas", "médicos", etc ...
Fazer o que né... Me diz uma coisa, o curso da Mellies Online é bom?! Eu até pensaria em fazer da AM, mas como não tenho um bom inglês, estive namorando esse curso deles.
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22/Oct/2008
kernond said:

Wow, now that's a movie! Why are we wasting are time with this Blender stuff?!


22/Oct/2008
kernond said:

Edit: 2nd "are" = "our"

:)


22/Oct/2008
Maxwell Barbosa Medeiros said:

Deveria ver ratatoing. Aí sim você ia se espantar.


23/Oct/2008
Virgilio said:

Hey guys, thanks for the comments! :)

@Rodrigo: cara, eu não sei sobre o curso online deles, mas te digo que o professor de animação de lá é um cara que sabe bastante e tem muita experiência.

@ Maxwell: credo. Não gosto nem de lembrar do Ratatoing. Aquilo é de doer. :)

@ Kernon: I'm thinking about dropping Blender and using only their system. :D