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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

The Hollywood Reporter on John Lasseter

From time to time I stumble upon some nice articles on John Lasseter.

This one, by The Hollywood Reporter talks a little about the story of a guy who was fired from Disney. A few years later, he became one of the most influential people in the history of animation and, in a stunning turn of events, became the Chief Creative Officer of the same company that fired him in the past.

Isn't that a good story? :)

(1) Comments

26/Oct/2008
pinK said:

Yeah, remind me the history of Steve Jobs. Fired of Apple and today....

:D