A music video that tells the story of modern online dating.

Illustrations:

Brenda Clemente @brendaclemente_art

Colorists:

Fiona Young @chickofonetrade

Stephanie Trackman @basbirdie

A science fiction short film created by John Weeden. With a budget of $0, all cast and crew consisted of volunteers.

This project, commissioned by Ziggy Marley, focuses on painterly effects, real animation, and a positive message that utilizes bright and dull colors to get the message across.

This video was made for Alma Cook, a singer-songwriter based in LA.  Chicago is a lyric video that focuses on deep tones, and explores the feeling of an underground burlesque theme to compliment the intimate and almost whispering vocals. In 2014 this project won a WAVE Award in the Pro Bono category, and received the MCAI Judges Choice Award. 

Music video made for Alma Cook that had over 100 unique CDs and cases. Almost all effects were created in camera.

Animated segments created to portray the science and history behind the Crater of Diamonds.

Many artists were commissioned for this Summer hit lyric video. John was in charge of the bee, flower, and facial expression shots.

Concept art made into a 3D environment that makes the scenes come alive.

I'm High is a colorful and psychedelic music video for Da$htone, a musical group based in Chicago.

The visual effects applied to this western short film were background cleanup, adding elements to make buildings seem bigger, and green screen replacement.  Homestead was premiered in Hollywood, January 1st 2015.

Winter in LA deals with a multicultural LA couple who wrestles with their identity. As their marriage falls apart, they navigate their way through immigration and other lovers, but they strangely gravitate back towards each other because of their shared experiences.

Work includes screen and sign replacement, lens flare removal, and general shot cleanup.

Walking On A Dream is John Weeden's first music video, and was created as a school project.  It was a trial of color, fast and slow motion.  This project spurred on many kinetic typography videos, and was finished within one week.

Hypocrite is the spiritual sequel to Chicago, another music video made for Alma Cook.  The style of this video is based off of line art, to coincide with the jump ropes used for the main beat.  in 2015, won a WAVE Award in the under $5000 category.

Smooth animations and a skillful art team made Certe Drive an ease to work on.  Concepts were interpreted and expanded on what the art team had intended, to make an explainer-style advertisement.

Painterly scenes to tell a whimsical country love story.

Simple kinetic typography to accompany the punchy lyrics.

Greenscreen work to make it look like the car is moving.

A collection of top down recipe videos for Christmas themed cocktails.

John Weeden was the head editor for Booya Fitness from 2015-2016.

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An advert for an Australian investment firm, Psaros only uses the company colors, and utilizes parallax and engaging transitions.

Quizzle Pro Plus tries to conquer the challenge of making a scene engaging with only 1 piece of artwork for up to 30 seconds at a time.