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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.

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2009-Oct-19: Old news, new news

Yeah... time to take the dust off this blog! :)

Lots of work (combined with a little indiscipline) made that I went away from writing here, but I'll try my best with this post. ;)


The video we made for the song My Favorite Way was nominated Video of the year on MTV! We didn't win that, but I see this nomination as a prize in itself. :)


Speaking of prizes... I'm humbled and extremely happy to know I won "Best Character Animation" at Blender Pro (Brazilian Blender Conference)! :D

The piece that won this prize was "Monster":

Thank you very much to everyone who voted for this piece, and my kudos to all winners and everyone who helped make another successful Blender Pro! :)


One more thing... I just want to say that I'm working in a completely new version of my rig Otto. And I mean completely:

I've been studying various rigging approaches, from Blender and other apps. I'm going to try some cool things I've found, bringing the best I see on those rigs.

With the upcoming Blender 2.5, it doesn't make much sense to release a final version now. So the actual release will be only after the final 2.5.

And that's all, folks! ;)

(3) Comments

19/Oct/2009
Pablo Lizardo said:

Good news virgilio!! and nice new aspect of Otto Rig!!
Congrats for the award!


22/Oct/2009
José Fernando Reinicke said:

Olá Virgílio,

Grato por seu comentário lá no blog =)
... e aproveitando, deixo os meus parabéns pelo prêmio de "Melhor Animação de Personagens" da Blender Pro. º/ Mais que merecido!!

Sorte e Sucesso!!
Reinicke


22/Oct/2009
Virgilio said:

Oi, pessoal! :)

@Pablo: Thanks a lot! Nice hear from you again! ;)

@Reinicke! :)

Pôxa... eu que agradeço a retribuição e suas palavras!

Você tem feito muita coisa bacana para os usuários de Blender, além de ter um ótimo trabalho.

Grande abraço!