Virgilio Vasconcelos' keywords: Technics; Copyleft; Fedora; Donna Haraway; Digital Animation; Ubuntu; LUCA School of Arts; UFMG; Research; Perspectivism; Paulo Freire; Privacy; Rigging; Decolonial thinking; Bernard Stiegler; OpenToonz; Jacques Derrida; Free Software; Education; Remix; Ailton Krenak; Open Access; Art; Animation; Gilbert Simondon; Blender; Cosmotechnics; Python; Re:Anima; Michel Foucault; Punk Rock; Democracy; Diversity; Heterotopias; David Graeber; Pierre Bourdieu; Gilles Deleuze; Noam Chomsky; Digital Arts; Debian; GNU/Linux; Krita; Re-existence.

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.

2007-Oct-14: I wish it was easy like that

In some promo videos for the upcoming Bee Movie, Jerry Seinfield talks about the studio's hunting for good animators.

I wish it was like that, because what happens is the opposite: animators fighting for a place in one big studio like Dreamworks... =)

But the video is funny.

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2007-Oct-13: Pixar Zoetrope

This isn't exactly news, because it's been around for a while, but I have to post this. It's way too cool. =)

On Victor Navone's blog you can download a quicktime loop in good quality of the Toy Story Zoetrope, and you can watch on YouTube how it feels to be there seeing everything live.

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2007-Oct-11: 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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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! =)

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2007-Oct-04: Free Burma!

My two cents.

Click on the image below to know what this is all about.

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