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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 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.

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2008-Dec-09: AnimaTV

Wow... 20 days without posting. Sorry for that, but I swear I can explain. ;)

I've been pretty busy lately, and one of those things that has been keeping me away from blogging is the AnimaTV program. It is a governmental program to help the development of Brazilian animated series. We (me, Suryara and Jovan) are working hard to make a good project.

If we succeed, there will be some money to produce 13 episodes. The 3D will be done in Blender, of course. ;)

This week I'm in a workshop with script writer Rodrigo John, to help refine our project. He's a great guy, and with a great knowledge of animation history.

I can't give you further details on our plot for obvious reasons, but I think there is no problem in showing one of the studies I made for this project.

It is important to notice that this image does NOT represent the final look at all. There are lots of studies on that particular subject, made by all three of us. There is a chance of one or two elements of this particular image get into the final look, but that's it: just a possibility.

There are some better images, but they are not suitable for showing here by basically two reasons: some of them shows plot details and some are not made by me, but by Suryara and Jovan. So I don't think it's fair to post them here now.

Cross your fingers for us! ;)

(3) Comments

09/Dec/2008
Gianmichele said:

Great work! I hope someday in Italy we'll have a program like that. At the moment the animaton market is really non existent here


09/Dec/2008
Joel said:

Hey that's looking really great! I hope you have fun making it and that it'll be successful!


04/Feb/2009
Guga Barbosa said:

Bacana demais. Sorte no projeto do Animatv. O meu também está lá. Abraço.
Ghugah