No post here since 2008... :)

Yeah... I've been pretty busy with lots of work and other things like moving to another apartment.

A cool thing that I saw is that finally the Spanish guys from Ilion released their trailer for Planet 51, which had Pepeland as one of the artists involved. It's been some years since I first saw about this movie, and it's good to know that it will finally come out this year.

Got it at ASIFA's website. :)

To bring a bit of usefulness to this post, take a look on what Ton Rosendaal has to say about Blender 2.5 development status. Pratically a Christmas gift to us Blenderheads. :D

To stay on the holidays mood, here is a Chuck Jones short from 1940: Bedtime for Sniffles.

This is not Jones' phase I like the most, but no one can say this isn't cute, huh? ;)

And with this I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas! :)

When we hear about claymation, most things that comes to our mind are pretty cute. I think that this is about to change...

I just saw this video, and I couln't resist to post it here. I'm sure it was a hell of a work to do, and it has some very funny gags. But there's a warning: you won't find anything cute. Well... maybe at the end. ;)

Well... it's been more than a month since I went to Belo Horizonte and I didn't write about my trip here. Until now. :)

The trip was really great. Me, Suryara and Jovan had the chance of meeting some very nice people and to learn a bunch of cool stuff.

First we went to the AnimaMundi animation workshop with the Argentinian animator Juan Pablo Zaramella. He is a very cool guy, extremely talented and accessible.

He talked a lot about how he builds the narratives and the way his productions are made. Besides his natural talent, he is very knowledgeable about all the details surrounding the construction of a successful story. Another thing that fascinated me was his camera choices: it is amazing how his well-thought camera use adds to his stories.

The result of the workshop is in this video below, called "La Mala" (or "The Suitcase"). The Pixilation technique was the quickest way to get the "hands dirty" after all his valuable teachings. This piece of animation was shot in only one day, and for those who don't know me personally, I'm the first "victim" to appear in the video:

La Mala from Virgilio Vasconcelos on Vimeo.

We also had the chance of visiting the new headquarters of Animassauro studios. There we had a very nice chat with all those talented and friendly artists. :)

Another cool meeting was with the great designer Eduardo Recife, who maintains the widely known Misprinted Type. He is such a nice person that is hard to find a fair way to write that on this humble blog.

Finally, on the last day we went to Blender Pro: the Brazilian Blender Conference. It was awesome to meet personally all those people which I only knew though "teh internets". There was some very interesting presentations and artwork, and it was very cool to talk with all those Blenderheads. As a proof that we really went there, here's the official photo of the event. Here I give you the challenge to find us among all those people: