DELANOP is Brent Patterson, an artist and designer based in Buffalo, New York, and associate professor of art and design and coordinator of the graphic design and digital media arts programs at SUNY Buffalo State University. He teaches courses on art history, motion graphics, graphic design, and a lot of 3D animation. This site is a work-in-progress database of his projects, experiments, and teaching from 2000 – present. For inquiries on technical and creative consulting, please visit the Contact page.
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Guru Donut
I have never seen Andrew’s famous donut tutorial, so I thought I would make my own.
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Grease Pencil Intro
A very basic intro to grease pencil for my students from Fall 2024.
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Projector Effect in Blender
Short video in which I describe a method for creating creating a 3D projector effect in Blender 4.1.
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Basic Creature Fall 2024
In this in-class tutorial from intro to 3D, I cover one way to make a very basic animated character…
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Rocking Chair Demo
A very basic demo about centers of origin in Blender.
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FA22 Molecule Demo
Demo for Intro to 3D students on building and animating a caffeine molecule.
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Using My Simple Nebula Shader
Demonstration on using my simple nebula shader which is available on Gumroad.
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Previsualizing Planetarium Visuals
Short demo on how to previsualize a fish dome projection for planetariums. Update (FA24) – I have a much…
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Custom Brushes in Blender Grease Pencil
One method for making custom brushes for Blender Grease Pencil
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Cloth Panels in Blender 2.82
Using the new cloth simulator in Blender 2.82, I manage to create decent cloth panels. This tutorial is now…
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Introducing Mixamo and Blender
This is a quick intro for my students on using motion capture animation from Mixamo in their Blender projects.
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UV Mapping
For unknown reasons, this video has the worst audio on the planet. Also, flaky version of Blender. I should…
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3D Output Methods
Don’t forgot to turn on the clock under ‘advanced’ in the render settings in order to animate your noise.…
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Biped Walking Cycle
Previous Versions (prior to Blender 2.8):
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3D Ceramics Tutorial FA19
Ceramics Project Tutorial FA19 (sorry about the fan noise).
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Molecule Tutorial FA19
Molcule Tutorial from 3D1 Fall 2019
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