Wes Koetje

Full Sail /// Media Design M.F.A // Motion Graphics Project

Wes Koetje — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:00:22 +0000

During the 8th month of my graduate school I created this animation. I modeled and created everything with a few exceptions. I did not model the BMW, doctors/dentist chair or the facet and sink. However I did make significant revisions to each of those models for them to work well with my project.

The piece was created and rendered using Blender 2.6.2. Each frame of the animation took roughly 25 minutes to render there are 848 rendered frames that I stretched in After Effects to 900 frames even. I used 8 different computers to render out the frames. I discovered that a desktop PC and Mac Book Pro both with i7 processors are not equal. The desktop PC took about twice as long to render any given frame when compared to my Mac Book Pro. The fastest per frame renders came from a newish Mac Pro.

While completing this project I thought several times that I had taken on more of a challenge than I needed. I remodeling a house, working full time and then to take on what should have been a month of full time animating as well was a little insane. Thankfully I had a few days to work on this project while I was in Michigan. Without those couple days kicking off this project I don’t know that I would have been nearly as happy with the final product.

I hope you enjoy it.

“Palms…” by The Sleeping Sea (http://www.myspace.com/thesleepingsea)

WFC – the Pusle /// New Look /// Teaser

Wes Koetje — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:29:27 +0000

Upon hitting the 1 year anniversary of the Pulse, I thought it was time to iterate the design again. Maybe on the second anniversary I will change the music out.

Here are a few of the stills from the new pulse opener.

New Video – Low Angle Sunset 01/15/2012

Wes Koetje — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:53:23 +0000

Another sunset, but this time I thought I would shoot through the field instead on top of it. I think in the future I will stick to above the weeds, but it was worth a shot. Hopefully more posts to come in the next few weeks. I have been neglecting pursuitvideo.com for a while. I might even update it with a new theme. Who knows, just another sunset for tonight.

New Video! – Josh and Rachels Wedding Ceremony

Wes Koetje — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:04:41 +0000

Married on August 13th 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHh7xGUTmBI

Constant Contact /// Bumper Video

Wes Koetje — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:16:58 +0000

My friend, Mike Smith agreed to be part of a video shoot for this series. What I failed to inform him of was he was going to be the face for the entire series. Bulletin, web graphics and back screen graphic. By the way he is a great photographer you should check out his work. Thanks for playing along Mike. It was a fun shoot.

Music Licensed from:
“Telephone (skit)” by 4di (http://www.myspace.com/edgarfichtenwald)

Legacy – Series Bumper Video

Wes Koetje — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:29:51 +0000

Here is the bumper video we created for our Legacy series.

If ever you see content on here you would like to use for your church. Please feel free to contact me.
wkoetje(at)westsidefamilychurch.com We are happy to share full resolution files with churches wanting to use the content.

Church in the Park /// Sept 4th 2011

Wes Koetje — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:41:09 +0000

Today starting at 5am I started snapping pictures of church in the park. Typically we worship at 3 different locations each week, but once each year we all come together. Here is the day condensed into 40 seconds of Time-Lapse photography.

Shawnee Mission Park /// Sunset August 26th

Wes Koetje — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:41:41 +0000

Yep… Another sunset, I love being out at the park taking pictures of the sunset. I have snapped over 20,000 clicks with my canon t2i. I hope that it lasts a lot longer that the shutter is rated for. We will see.

Latest Videos /// August 14&21

Wes Koetje — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:32:52 +0000

This weekend we had 3 videos – they are embedded below.

Bumper Video

The Pulse – August 21st

Ignite – Bumper Video

The week before – August 14th –

Bumper Video

The Pulse – August 14th

Envato Birthday Bundle /// Awesome!!!

Wes Koetje — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:58:14 +0000

About once a year Envato puts out a great bundle. Here is the latest one. I’ve purchased their bundles in the past and have had lots of luck using their contents with clients and projects for Westside.

As a matter of full disclosure by clicking the link above I earn a small portion of the sale to support this website.

The bundle has multiple categories in which the content falls, from audio files to website templates. I’m looking forward to using several of the files in the upcoming projects. Bundles like this help inspire me to create new more interesting videos and websites.

I hope you find something in the bundle and purchase it like I have. You will support pursuitvideo.com and hopefully inspire you on your upcoming projects.