Brent Patterson (aka delanop) is an artist based in Buffalo, New York. He is 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 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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4-27-25
Procedural Volumetric Rendering (HDR)
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Vintage Motion Graphics Studies SP25
In spring 2025 I assigned students in my Intro to Animation course to make studies of vintage motion graphics from…
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Fall 2024 Showreel
Fall 2024 Showreel of student works From 3D Animation 1, Motion Graphics II
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The Worm
VFX and Animation for The Worm music videomusic: Bastian Benjamin x Alberta Balsam x French IIlabel: @unknown-untitled https://frenchii.bandcamp.com/album/t… Director: Harry…
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Albion Morph Effect
A fashion company in the UK needed an animation to promote their new jacket made from recycled fishing nets. The…
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Ruinator Mesh Destroyer
I’ve been experimenting with Blender addons and node setups for a while and many are getting to the point where…
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This Machine Kills Fascists Addon
Feeling rather helpless and inspired by Woody Guthrie, I decided to make a Blender addon that places the words “This…
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Bake a Cake in Blender
In this demo from April 2025, I explore the very basics of procedural textures and baking textures in Blender 4.4.1.
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Retro Chrome Mograph Demo
A quick demo on retro chrome motion graphics I did for my students in my office which was noisy, so…
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Intro to Immersive Video in Blender
This is demo recorded during my intro to animation course on April 16, 2025. It covers setting up Blender to…
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Intro to Premier (Spring 2025)
AS very basic introduction to Premier – ingesting media, editing, exporting. For my Intro to Digi media Class – Spring…
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Godot Basics
This is a basic demo recorded from class in which we explore Godot 3D scene switching and importing basic animations.
