Captain Ted: origin/opening sequence
Here's the first couple of minutes from my "Captain Ted" project; it's been on Youtube for a couple of weeks now, but if you haven't seen it, here she blows:
Captain Ted is underway
I've jumped into the production process for Capt. Ted, and things are going smoothly so far. The script isn't fully completed, nor is the storyboard, but in order to keep my short attention span focused, I decided to go ahead and start working on the "meat and potatoes" bit of the project: the actual animation and rendering. I'm happy to report that the project is making me more and more excited the more I accomplish with it, so hopefully, this will come to complete fruition, and I won't get bored with it as I have with so many others. Here's a couple of renders from the first few scenes I've been putting together.
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Capt. Ted Project – Ocean test render
Finally started working on some production; here's a test render (possibly final) shot of my opening scene.
Captain Ted – Story coming together
Well the story I have in mind for Captain Ted is finally starting to come together. I've been working on an outline, and finally came up with a "decent" story with a moral and all that. Hopefully it will be as entertaining as I intend...
I'm wanting to do this project 100% on my own, so don't be surprised if I don't take any critique advice; I'll probably actually not release any actual work until I've got something "done."
I will give you the basis for the story, if you're interested: Ted is a pilot in the Air Force, and is flying a standard procedure flight, when he accidentally goes out of communication range, and crash lands on an island in the Caribbean (or really any non-specific tropical island). Exploring the island, he discovers an alien who has also crash landed, and has a chimp with him, whom he rescued from a test rocket back in the 60s/70s. They all become friends, and set about trying to find a way to get home.
Site Redesign
Welcome to the new and improved davidallenward.com; I've neglected to update the older version of the site, mostly because it was a bit of a hassle to go in and add new pages and such; now I've brought in WordPress, and figured it was about time to get it done. So here we are. Hopefully I can keep this one updated a bit better; although I'm sure it'll have a lot of the same content as my Facebook Artist page, but maybe with a bit more of a personal touch, as well, as I'll also try to keep a blog 
Arnold Schwarzenegger
This was created as an entry for the Blender Community's "Blending Life 2" challenge. It took 5th place out of 70 some odd entries.
Gorilla
This was just sort of a test of my quasi-realistic animal creation skills, also playing with Blender's new (at the time) particle hair/fur tools.
