Brent Patterson
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Brent Patterson
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Artist and professor of digital media at SUNY Buffalo State University | making digital art since early 90s | animation | open-source software | blender | education | art | cycling | travel | 🚫 no AI, NFTs | https://linktr.ee/delanop (profile by Aubs)
Hi friends. My son, Oliver, is in surgery today to remove a brain tumor that has returned after six years. He needs your good hopes and well-wishes for a speedy recovery. Thank you.
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
He doesn't let me take many pictures of him... My son Oliver is getting his next brain MRI at St. Judes in a few hours. If you all could send him positive energy for clear scans, I do appreciate it. Thanks.
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
My student Amya just turned in this season-appropriate project for one of my animation classes. #blender3d #buffalostate
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
ok, one more
October 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
please allow me to invade an old memory this Monday morning... #blender3d
October 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
While returning home from the Blender Conference I saw this out the window of my plane somewhere over Lake Ontario. I swear this is real. #b3d
October 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I'm going to be doing these all month.

My grandfather recorded this in 1993 in the woods near his home. He swears it was real. And stupid. #b3d
October 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I'm teaching geometry nodes this semester in one of my animation classes, so here's some new work by Tori, J'juan, Rebecca, and Ayden. #b3d
October 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I'm home from Amsterdam and the #bcon25 and my Blender Conference 2025 lanyard has taken its place in my growing conference lanyard collection.
September 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Everything feels sad, so here's a good boy I saw today in Amsterdam.
September 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I find myself here again. #bcon25
September 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This coffee company logo looks familiar...
September 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The first assignment in one of my 3D animation courses is to remake a film studio logo animation (vanity card) as closely as possible, but change the text. I made my own. Fellow GenX folks will remember this one. #b3d
August 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Nebula Saturday! #b3d #blender3d #render #cycles
August 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
August 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Spaceship Sunday! I wanted to see if I could build a large ship with only geometry nodes. I love this software - ...plays in realtime. #blender3d #spaceship #b3d
August 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Another comet render. #b3d
August 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Oliver's scans were clear!
If you are able, please donate to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. www.stjude.org/donate/donat...
July 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hi everyone. My son Oliver (the talented pizza chef below) and I are heading to St. Jude's tomorrow for his next scan. He had a brain tumor successfully removed over six years ago, but needs a scan every four months. Before each scan I request positive energy from the good folks on bsky. Thanks!
July 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Another space rock thing #b3d
July 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I whipped up a fully procedural asteroid shader for some planetarium projects I'm working on. #b3d
July 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
June 30th #b3d
June 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
good morning #b3d
June 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Another noisy volume experiment. #b3d
June 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I'm rendering these grumpy space clouds again. #b3d #blender #cycles #nebula #space #scifi #procedural
June 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM