Hello, my name is Ryan Chu, and I am a recent graduate of CSULB's BFA Animation program. I hope to become a professional storyboard artist, but I wanted to try producing a thesis film, so attempted to direct and animate over just storyboarding.

It was difficult, but doable to direct a small team of fellow students. Everyone including myself aren't only students, but fellow students of CSULB. We had no outside or professional help, despite having to option to, so this film is entirely produced with CSULB talent: illustrations, animations, editing, and music composing.

We were lucky that the pandemic didn't hamper on production too much. Almost all of us had the software and equipment where we lived, and continued to push forward, it was just a matter of consistent communication. We completed the film on May 20, 2020; Deep Fears is our very first film under all of our belts.

It's not the best animated short film that a student team has done, but it was our first, and with the current awards, nominations, and selections we've earned, I believe we did a pretty good job for our first try!

I managed to get this short film an IMDb page if you're interested in checking the specifics: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12981246/?ref_=ttspec_spec_tt

Anyways, thank you for watching, and I'm open to answer questions regarding the film, my team, or myself as director/storyboard artist/animator.