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.

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?

A masterclass in staging and dynamics.

Who likes to make their renders look like outdated rubbish?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.

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...

This coffee company logo looks familiar...

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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

Nebula Saturday! #b3d #blender3d #render #cycles

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.

Thursday render. #b3d #procedural #geometrynodes

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

Another comet render. #b3d

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!

Another space rock thing #b3d

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

Blender 4.5 LTS has reached Release Candidate! 🚀 Now's the time for you to test it and report any issues to help make this release as stable as possible. 👉 Download it here: builder.blender.org #b3d

June 30th #b3d

good morning #b3d

Another noisy volume experiment. #b3d

I'm rendering these grumpy space clouds again. #b3d #blender #cycles #nebula #space #scifi #procedural

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

MEMPHIS VS. MUSK Despite valid community concerns, both @mayorpaulyoung & mayor @LeeHarrisfor901 are supportive of this project. Consider this an open invitation to both of you to come on the Holler and elaborate as to why. (From @thebwstimes.bsky.social : www.instagram.com/reel/DJ-dXB2...)

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

"They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds." -Dinos Christianopoulos.

Saturday splash #b3d

That atmosphere fading into the darkness of space... Mars, Promethei Terra by @esa.int Mars Express 🔭🧪 Full size 9K: flic.kr/p/2r3TaZh Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Colourised image created using data processed from: psa.esa.int Time: 2016-02-13 Filter: Green HF363_0000_GR3.IMG

What makes VDM different from normal displacement: Standard displacement moves vertices along the surface normal (up/down). VDM uses a 3D vector (x, y, z) per pixel, allowing full spatial displacement, so it can create overhangs, folds, etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gL_... #b3d #3d #blender3d

some new grumpy space cloud renders... #b3d

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.

Friendly reminder that you can download my rather useless, but mildly cathartic Blender plugin that displays an important message in your viewport. It's free. brentpatterson.gumroad.com/l/lqlbx

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

Importing SVGs to Blender can be a disappointing experience. For those of you who are looking for a more eye-pleasing solution: I just wrote an Enhanced SVG importer extension for accurate colors and correct path processing. extensions.blender.org/approval-que...

Blender 4.4.1 was released today! If you're on 4.4, definitely update to 4.4.1, as it fixes >100 bugs. But if you're on 4.3, also do the update, as 4.4 is just more stable and polished. blender.org/download #b3d #blender3d #devfund

Just bought my Blender Conference 2025 tickets early in case the dollar crashes further. See you all in Amsterdam this fall.

Three years after the third season, Love, Death + Robots is back on Netflix on May 15! 🥳 “The fourth volume sees Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Kill Team Kill) return as supervising director for ten startling shorts showcasing the series’ style of bleeding-edge animation, horror, sci-fi, and humor.”

Vulkan is ready! 🌋 ...for testing. Help getting Vulkan ready by testing it and sharing your feedback with the developers. Learn more: devtalk.blender.org/t/vulkan-fee... #b3d #Vulkan

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning

Important reading. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/why-collec...

Thank you EndVertex for this excellent and thoughtful essay. I am now sending it as required watching to my design students.

I had the pleasure of doing the vfx and animation for this music video for Bastian Benjamin, Alberta Balsam, French II's new collab, The Worm. It's goofy, but fun. Everything was done in #Blender over two weekends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoQX...