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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 21h

I only have £80 for food next month. If anyone has need of a video editor, give me a shout. I can work remote and in any time zone. Links and resume available on request. Please repost. Thank you. #filmsky

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 30/09/2026

I spoke again at the Blender conference last week. I was so nervous that my watch later asked if I had been running during those twenty minutes. #bcon26 #blender www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEgQ...

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Enter the Dome: Rendering for Planetariums — BCON26

YouTube video by Blender

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

4.8 will be the strongest godot release in a while texture streaming, contact shadows, multi-bounce AO, lightmap specular, 3d trails, mesh buffers on gpu, visual shader groups, label text fitting, symbol renaming, more flexible editor layout and a lot of ui improvements what are you still missing?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Watch how defensive Rep Faison gets 👇🏽when Jennifer states the obvious — you can’t separate race from the politics of stripping majority-Black MEMPHIS of representation. No matter how many family members you mention or how grossly you butcher the meaning of MLK’s words, this will still hold true.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

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BSides Buffalo @bsidesbuffalo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

JOB SEEKERS: We're going to have a Career Village for the very first time this year at BSides Buffalo - come join Russel Bassarath and Anthony Bray from Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (BCAT) for a workshop and resume review!

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 06/02/2026

After nearly two months of radiation therapy, we are going home.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 01/02/2026

radiation drawings: some of the drawings I make while my son is in daily radiation therapy at St. Jude. #drawing

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 29/01/2026

Despite everything, I submitted a talk proposal to the Blender Conference in Austin. I have been fairly radicalized over the past ten years, so I doubt they'll accept it. We shall see if they want to hear 'Fight the Fascists with FOSS' ... in Texas. #blender

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 28/01/2026

I've been living at St. Jude for the past few weeks while my son is in therapy. I met other synth dads whose kids are in proton radiation therapy and we've started jamming together. We named the group Proton Beam. We're awful and it's awesome. I mainly do the visuals. The lion was Oliver's idea.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 21/01/2026

I've been making new work from the spaces here at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital where we've been living while my son undergoes treatment. The full work will be at the upcoming faculty show at Czurles Nelson Gallery on Buffalo State's campus starting next week. It's also on my website.

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Jack Kirby Crosby🌹👨‍🎨 @jkcrosbyfun.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

RJ is absolutely right here, I would add that concept artists more often than not serve as the filter for reference going into the project. We build reference libraries and understandings of an exceptionally diverse range of information and how that relates to the project.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 10/12/2025

It's coming along... a new procedural, animated Jupiter-like atmosphere for Blender for my fellow sci-fi nerds. It's just a procedural shader. #b3d #blender3d #notai #procedural

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 10/12/2025

I've been tinkering with my old procedural gas giant shader and making significant improvements. #b3d #notAI

a screen grab of blender with the shader nodes exposed

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 21/11/2025

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.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 13/11/2025

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.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 22/10/2025

My student Amya just turned in this season-appropriate project for one of my animation classes. #blender3d #buffalostate

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Killinsmallz @killinsmallz.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Your boi here really cooked on some painterly brush textures. Still needs improvements but dang... this cookin. Did you know blender is free?

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 06/10/2025

please allow me to invade an old memory this Monday morning... #blender3d

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 03/10/2025

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

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 02/10/2025

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

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 01/10/2025

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

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Here’s 3 full minutes of @kaitlancollins trying to get @SpeakerJohnson to admit undocumented people can’t get federal health care, and Johnson repeating the lie over and over anyway. Republicans are kicking people off insurance then lying about who they’re doing it to.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 22/09/2025

I'm home from Amsterdam and the #bcon25 and my Blender Conference 2025 lanyard has taken its place in my growing conference lanyard collection.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 19/09/2025

Everything feels sad, so here's a good boy I saw today in Amsterdam.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

james cameron walks up to whiteboard with TOEJAM and EARL written on it. he erases the "and" and writes Vs.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 15/09/2025

I'm heading to #bcon25 in a few hours. Who else will I see there?

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A masterclass in staging and dynamics.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 09/09/2025

Who likes to make their renders look like outdated rubbish? I do. That's why I made RetroRender - a Blender compositing setup that let's you quickly design and apply old film or video looks directly to your Blender renders. It's live on Superhive superhivemarket.com/products/ret... and my Gumroad.

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Retrorender

RetroRender is a compositor node setup for Blender that simulates vintage film or video.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 05/09/2025

My student, Rebecca, made a wonderful short animation for one of my classes last spring and now it is an accepted entry for a Suzanne Award at this year's Blender Conference. If you have a Blender account, you can vote for it. conference.blender.org/2025/festiva...

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Blender Conference 2025 — conference.blender.org

Blender Conference 2025 - The event of the year celebrating the Free and Open 3D Creation Software

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 05/09/2025

This coffee company logo looks familiar...

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 29/08/2025

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

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Disney's Marvel studios is abandoning the state of Georgia to film in the UK, mainly bc of the difference in labor costs from not having to pay for employees' health insurance bc of the National Health Service. Universal health care makes businesses more competitive in the global marketplace.

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Disney’s Marvel Abandons Georgia, Taking Livelihoods With It

Tax incentives lured studios to help build the ‘Hollywood of the South,’ but now Marvel and others are going overseas for cheaper labor costs.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 11/08/2025

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

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 23/07/2025

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!

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 11/07/2025

I whipped up a fully procedural asteroid shader for some planetarium projects I'm working on. #b3d

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