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Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

Making of Citroen C4 Runner

CGBlog.com there's an interesting article about the making of the new Citroen C4 advert: Runner. The first TV spot became famous worldwide, and now Citroen folks have decided to bring their transformer back.

Until now I know 3 versions of their spots:

The original, which still remains the best IMHO;

Runner (subject of the making of);

Skater.

There's a cool example of a good Motion Capture (mocap) use, because there's a need of total realistic movements to the robot.

But for cartoons, which are something like caricatures in motion, it's a BAD idea to use mocap: it brings us caricatured forms with realistic movements (too awkward ). Cartoons need cartoony movements, and that's only achievable with an animator creating all the frames of the animation.

 

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