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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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2007-Oct-11: The Cold Rush
The Cold Rush

Once in a while we get to watch an incredible animated short created by animation students.

In my humble opinion, the best ones I've saw to this day are French. Two shorts made by Gobelins students are in my particular "hall of fame" as the best of this kind I've ever watched: Cocotte Minute and Burning Safari. If you didn't watched them yet, I strongly advise you to visit their websites now. 

Now a third Francophone short enters the list: The Cold Rush, made by fours students at Supinfocom. Great story, character animation, technique and a really superb use of camera. Fantastic.

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