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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.

2008-Oct-25: Phii

It's simple and funny. Well... I like it. :)

Meet Phii. I found it while browsing by 3d4all.org. There are only two episodes at this moment, but I'm looking for more. :)

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2008-Oct-24: Autodesk buys Softimage

Maya, Max, XSI...

I have a bad feeling about this, young Padawan.

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2008-Oct-23: Madagascar: Escape to Africa - featurette

Whether you like DreamWorks' Madagascar (I do) or not, the talent of the artists on that studio is something undeniable.

Animation World Network brings us a featurette with behind the scenes of the upcoming release from Jeffrey Katzenberg's studio. There's an ad before the video, but I assure you it is worth  waiting for. :)

Man... aren't those digital paintings of African savannah gorgeous?

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2008-Oct-23: Buraco de Bala new website

A few days ago the guys at Buraco de Bala put their new website online.

These guys have some really great works. Be sure you watch them. :)

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2008-Oct-21: Mormon 2 - the computer version

I found this website called xtranormal.com which has a slogan: "If you can type, you can make movies."

I don't agree with that statement at all, although I think they've accomplished an interesting system (from a developer point of view).

But in order to make a movie, or an animated movie in this case, one needs MUCH more than the ability to put his/her fingers on a keyboard.

I made this movie their system as a joke to show how much I disagree with their statement:

"Ok - one smart guy can say - this is a movie."

But it is a very crappy one, don't you think? :)

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