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

This coffee company logo looks familiar...

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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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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 · 25/07/2025

Oliver's scans were clear! If you are able, please donate to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. www.stjude.org/donate/donat...

...oliver complaining that I'm taking his picture again

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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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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 29/06/2025

Another noisy volume experiment. #b3d

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 16/05/2025

I'm grading final projects for my intro to animation course and had to share this amazing animation by my student, Rebecca H. #blender #greasepencil

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 29/04/2025

some new grumpy space cloud renders... #b3d

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 28/04/2025

My school uses MS OneDrive, so I have to. I am trying to form an opinion about their UI elements like these two examples and find myself simultaneously disliking and liking them. ...and wanting to get out my old Trapper Keeper.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 25/04/2025

Fluid sims are way easier than they used to be. ...rendered in 10 minutes on a four year old computer. #blender

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 24/03/2025

achievement unlocked, I guess

a linux terminal displaying the top program and reporting 365 days of uptime

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 20/03/2025

Some random dude at pub trivia was doodling a cybertruck on fire just to pass the time

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 19/03/2025

Hi everyone, my son Oliver is heading to St. Jude for his next MRI tomorrow. He had a brain tumor removed 6 years ago and gets checked every four months for recurrence. Before each scan, I like to ask all the good people here to send hope and positive energy in his direction. Thank you!

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 14/03/2025

Nerd party in ten days.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 19/02/2025

If this whole art professoring thing doesn't pan out, I'll just make pizza for everyone.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 17/02/2025

The sky today. I feel better times await us on the other side of all this darkness.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 05/02/2025

The newest version of my procedural aurora generator is now available on the Blender Market. It works in Eevee or Cycles. blendermarket.com/products/sim...

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 03/02/2025

...thinking about the TOS episode, 'The Doomsday Machine', when an emotionally compromised failed captain took command of the Enterprise and sent it on a suicidal revenge mission only to be stopped when Mr. Spock ACTIVATED THE 25th AMENDMENT, I mean broke ranks and relieved him of duty.

Spock and an emotionally compromised man

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 25/01/2025

I watched Flow with my family tonight. One of the best films I've ever scene. So deeply moving. Thank you @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social

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