Brent Patterson

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

a glitchy photo

#glitch Monday.

github.com/KenneyNL/Ado...

there's free and open source adobe alternatives if anyone needs them.

abstract drawing

abstract drawing

abstract drawing

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

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

I scrappy synthy setup.

Hell yeah

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.

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.

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.

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

a screen grab of blender with the shader nodes exposed

a CGI render of a gas giant planet

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

a procedural cloud rendered with blender cycles

Saturday evening render. #b3d

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.

Me, Oliver, and Elliot

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.

The Ruinator: Mesh Destroyer The Ruinator is a geometry nodes-based modifier addon that helps 3D artists procedurally quickly add highly detailed ruined structure effects non-destructively.

I have updated my Ruinator mesh destroying addon over on Superhive with many new features - custom debris, new shader options, etc.. #blender superhivemarket.com/products/rui...

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

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.

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

ok, one more

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Blending brains: Tales from the neuro department — Blender Conference 2025 YouTube video by Blender

so proud to share @jhuapl.bsky.social neuroscience research at #blenderconference2025 @blender.org ❤️

also shoutout to #microscopynodes by @aafkegros.bsky.social, here's to awesome new collabs born at blendercon!!!

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

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

I find myself here again. #bcon25

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