Big D Mobile Film Fest Presented by the Dallas Video Fest

All Your Life - The Band Perry - Lip Dub

Every Once In a While - Brant Lee Croucher

New music video I made for Brant Lee Croucher. Shot on Location in Dallas, TX at Opening Bell Coffee and at Bills Records. Shot in HD with a Panasonic GH2. Also used the Konova Slider for some shots. Coloring with Red Giant's Magic Bullet Looks and Mojo. Stars Brant Lee Croucher and featuring Lauren Burns.

http://brantleemusic.com

Going Somewhere - Debbie Forrest

New music I made for Debbie Forrest. Shot in Downtown in Dallas. Canon XH-A1s, After Effects, Video Copilot Twitch and Magic Bullet looks. Some of the whip pans are created with just motion and animating the pan, others are done with twitch. The crazier looking ones were done with Twitch. The Song is from her new album "The Train Song" available on iTunes and CD Baby.

http://debbieforrestmusic.com

I'm Still Here - Debbie Forrest (from The Train Song)

New Music video I made for Debbie Forrest. 3 Months in the making, 72 visual effects shots, hundreds of 3D lights, buildings and optical flares from Video Copilot.

Halfway To The Moon - Debbie Forrest at Poor David's Pub

Debbie Forrest live at Poor David's Pub in Dallas

The Fun Room Premiere at the Angelika Theater

Debbie Forrest at Grapevine Grape Fest

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OK Go at the Granada Theater - Dallas

My Favorite Visual Effect (VFX) and After Effects websites

A few of my favorite Visual Effects/Motion Graphics websites. They have great tutorials, excellent products and pro tips. I utilize them all the time. I really appreciate the time and effort that goes into all the work these fine folks are doing. They all are very helpful to the VFX community and I applaud them for that. If you want to enhance, expand and explore all aspects of visual effects/motion graphics, these are the places to go.

Video Copilot - Andrew Kramer
Maltannon - Jerzy Drozda
AE Portal News - Rich Young
AE Tuts
Creative Cow Forums
Creative Cow Tutorials
Motion Graphics Exchange
SternFX - Eran Stern
MotionWorks - John Dickinson
AE Enhancers
AE Scripts - Lloyd Akvarez and others.
Adobe TV - After Effects
All Bets Are Off - Aharon Rabinowitz
Grey Scale Gorilla - Nick Campbell
Gray Machine - Harry Franck
Chris Zwar - Eponymous
Strong Mocha
Key Frames - Michael Coleman from Adobe
AE Extensions - Mathias Möhl

If you know of any other websites, please let me know.

HDMI Field Monitor review

Good field monitor review from Cinema5d. I have been looking for a small portable monitor for my HD camera.
I think I still like the DP-1, they all have pro's and con's.

Cinema5D reviewed (from left to right):

• smallHD DP-1
• ikan V8000HDMI
• Marshall V-LCD70P-HDMI
• ikan V5600

http://www.cinema5d.com/news/?p=2262

Land Shark!

-Wes

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My Demo Reel

Demo Reel - Tomorrows World Video from jwestern on Vimeo.

The Good, the bad, the ugly - Tomorrows World Video Demo Reel. Two and Half minutes of examples from the past couple of years. All FX done with After Effects. The Music is from Videocopilot.net Pro Scores. Lots of green screen, lots of fun.

Enjoying a little hibachi with friends

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-Wes

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Can you ever go wrong with Cannibals? Should be fun.

-Wes

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New Video I made for OK Go - WTF?

OK Go - WTF? (Precognition Colorama Video Remix) Unofficial O Raw footage by filmmaker Tim Nackashi. Visual Effects by J. Western Sutton. Music By OK Go.

http://OKGo.net

Composite Effects made possible by Adobe After Effects, VideoCopilot.net and AEScripts.com. This effect utilizes the Time Remapping function as the original but applied to Audio to Keyframes. The key frames were mapped to markers with AudioToMarkers script from Lloyd Alvarez. The markers are now based on the bass and snare beats, the background elements change to the markers. The "frame" from the original video is shown based on the marker number. I offset the frame numbers for each background element. Also the Twitch plugin was used for the occasional WTF transition. Thanks to OK Go for the opportunity to play with their original (and fantastic) video.

Snow in Arlington in HD

Quick Movie I made of record snow fall in Arlington, TX. Had to hold an umbrella while I was filming. Only F/X used was for the little girl playing the violin. I got the footage for that from AllBetsAreOff.com from Aharon Rabinowitz. And I used Twitch for the blurring and lighting effects from VideoCopilot.net and Adrew Kramer. Edited with Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Saw Shutter Island last night. I give it 4 psychotropic drugs out if 5 for crazy good job by Leo and Marty.

-Wes

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Only 6 hours till NBA All-Star game at the Deathstar. Hoops!

-Wes

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