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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.

2007-Aug-31: Fons Schiedon

Dutch animator and illustrator Fons Schiedon has some really good producions.

Make sure you don't miss the 'Teen Facts - Hormones' short, which is part of an exibition on the Nemo Science Center.

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2007-Aug-29: CG with 2D look without cell shader

Found interesting a post on Cartoon Brew, which shows a 3D animation with a cartoon look, without using the cell shader.

It's by no means a revolutionary thing, but the result looks much better than automatic cell shading.

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2007-Aug-27: Andrew Gordon annotations

Found on Andre Forni's blog an excellent material: notes made by doctor Andrew Gordon, from Pixar.

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2007-Aug-25: Mel Blanc on Letterman, 1981

Cartoon Brew brought us this video from a 1981 Mel Blanc interview on David Letterman show.

Another video about "The Man of a Thousand Voices" here.

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2007-Aug-24: Video interview with Bobby Beck, Carlos Baena and Shawn Kelly

Tim Formica, from Blendernation was on Siggraph 2007 and made a cool interview with the awesome animators/teachers Bobby "Boom" Beck, Carlos Baena e Shawn Kelly, founders of Animation Mentor.

The video was divided in two parts. Go check it out: 1 and 2.

I wish I could study with them...

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