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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I've written a book about Rigging and Animation in Blender for Packt Publishing. You can get the files here.
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.
It's available for download in HD the first trailer for Blue Sky's Horton Hears a Who. The quality of the animation is superb, as the previous productions of the New York based studio. Horton's story was created by Dr. Seuss, who had another of his books adapted by Chuck Jones in 1966, becoming an all time animation classic: How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Simpsons Movie opens today in US, but here in Brazil we have to wait until august 17th for the opening. LA Weekly brings a cool 5 page interview with Matt Groening Is now online the first Beowulf trailer, the new Robert Zemeckis movie (yes, the guy behind the zombie looks of Polar Express and Monster House). Another great render work. I say RENDER, because there's no animation: just motion capture (aka mocap). OK, there is an insanely laborious work of "cleaning up" the captured data, but there's not animation in the essence of the latin word "anima" (soul) meaning something like "bringing life and soul to things". The guys/girls who work with this data don't create the performance, they clean it up. Although it is aesthetically interesting, it has that "zombie-like" movements like any other mocapped film. I really want to know the logic behind modeling Angelina Jolie's full body, recording her voice and capturing her movements but not using her on the film! Its as weird as that awful Orville Redenbacher resuscitation.