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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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2007-Oct-09: We got nominated! =)

Our animations about the Legends of The Amazon Forest were nominated to the "Best Designed Short" category, on Blender Conference 2007.

Me, Suryara and Jovan are crossing our fingers. The results will be next Saturday.

P.S.: Tomorrow afternoon I'll be giving a short course on Blender at CONPEEX 2007/UFG. If you happen to be around, go there and say hi! =)

(2) Comments

12/Oct/2007

Henrique Zorzan said:

Olá Virgilio, vou estar torcendo por vocês!!!! Olha não vou poder estar no mini curso que pena, mas pede para alguém dar uma gravada he he he e põe isto na net ;) To brincando mas até que a ideia não e má.... Abraços e continua com este EXCELENTE trabalho!

17/Oct/2007

Pablo Lizardo said:

Congratulations for your nominee!... if i can vote, i will vote to your short!..
and if you dont win dont worry!

Saludos desde tierra del fuego, argentina.