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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:

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-17: Surf s Up, the Making Of

It will take a while till Surf's Up have its premiere here in Brasil, but now everyone can read about how it was done. =D

185vfx.com brings us a 129 page PDF with the production details of this Sony Pictures Animation feature, from a presentation made at last Siggraph.

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2007-Aug-16: Plumiferos to be distributed by Sony Pictures

The movie Plumiferos, which is in it's final production stages by Manos Digitales studio, will be distributed by Sony Pictures.

If you haven't heard about it yet, it's the first feature animation entirely made with Blender and other open source software.

Not bad, huh? I hope we can watch it in Brazilian theaters too.

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2007-Aug-15: The CG look, by Keith Lango

As usual, Keith Lango brings us very interesting thoughts on animation. He's been talking about the processes and aesthetics in mainstream CG animation for some time, and offers his opinions about how to get interesting yet different results from what we're used to see.

On this post, he talks about his concept of "CG look", something he wants to avoid on his own productions. Cool reading, as always.

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2007-Aug-14: The Happiness Factory

Folks at Psyop have just made it again! Their new Coca-Cola "Happiness Factory" animation is really superb and, in my opinion, is even better than the original.

Make sure you don't miss their documentary in the Aardman's Creature Comforts style, that's also amazing. I first saw about this documentary when reading André Forni's blog.

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2007-Aug-14: Digital Acting

PeachPit.com brought us (quite a while ago, actually) an article in which George Maestri says some things about digital character animation.

Maestri is the author of Digital Character Animation volumes 1 and 2. I know the article is pretty old (2001), but I think it's an interesting resource for anyone into character animation, anyway.

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