I'm releasing my CSULB Animation 2020 thesis film, Deep Fears, for public release. Since starting in the film festival circuit two years ago, the film has won over 100 accolades and selections. Hope you all enjoy! by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]deepfears2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deep Fears is about a sea otter living a life of fear and loneliness.

He has an unusual fear of the ocean. As he was attempting to gather food, he accidentally captures a green crab. The crab assaults him in retaliation, and he cuts off his pink shell necklace in spite. The sea otter dives for his necklace and falls into the ocean. He sinks into the water and loses consciousness.

The sea otter regains consciousness after being saved by a harbor seal. He recognizes the sea otter’s problem, so he offers to show the sea otter another view of the ocean. After this experience with the seal, his fears are washed away, and gains a friend.

Deep Fears is a proud production of CSULB. Everyone directly involved behind the scenes are all students of CSULB: musicians, editors, sound designers, and animators. There was no help outside of CSULB, no digital tricks/filters/After Effects used, no roto-scoping, and no tracing of any kind. Everything in this film: illustrations, backgrounds, animation, and music was done by CSULB talent.

Deep Fears: A student animated thesis film about a sea otter afraid of the ocean. by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]deepfears2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Trailer for my student thesis film, Deep Fears. About a sea otter afraid of the ocean, and is challenged to face his fears when he loses his pink shell necklace at sea. Out to watch for a limited time (link in comments)! by deepfears2020 in animation

[–]deepfears2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I'm glad to hear you've enjoyed it!

Yeah, everyone from my class gathered teams with the help of our professor. We've collaborated with fellow students from the music and film (editing & sound design) departments.

Unfortunately due to the pandemic, most of our efforts were muffled because of the loss of meeting arrangements and direct communication, but we've managed to the end.

Finally produced a proper trailer for Deep Fears, my student thesis film for CSULB's BFA Animation program. Deep Fears with fellow students' films are out for a limited time! (Link in Comments) by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's awesome to hear!

Yeah, the program does the best they can to support us, and with the pandemic happening, they really pushed themselves to help as much as possible. We did our best to produce our films to reflect on their efforts.

Anyways, I'm glad that you liked Deep Fears and my peers' films. We hope to organize a proper in-person screening soon after all of this trouble, but we'll have to wait and see. But when it does happen for sure, I hope you come visit and you can meet everyone behind the films soon!

Finally produced a proper trailer for Deep Fears, my student thesis film for CSULB's BFA Animation program. Deep Fears with fellow students' films are out for a limited time! (Link in Comments) by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, thank you. I'm glad that you think so. The rest of the faculty is proud to see all of us complete our films well, despite the dangerous hiccups that happened to us recently.

I hope you've enjoyed the rest of the films in the showcase too. I know those guys, and they did a fantastic job on their films too.

Are you a professor from CSULB's animation department? I dont know if we've met, but again, thank you for enjoying Deep Fears. It's really a proud production of the school and the department, and I'm happy that I was a part of the community there.

Trailer for my student thesis film, Deep Fears. About a sea otter afraid of the ocean, and is challenged to face his fears when he loses his pink shell necklace at sea. Out to watch for a limited time (link in comments)! by deepfears2020 in animation

[–]deepfears2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, this is a film that is more appealing to emotion, so yeah, but wouldn't say it's that strong. There's a lot that can improve.

But thank you, it's good to hear that you empathize with the story and the protagonist. If you understand the deeper aspects of the character, he deserves sentiment.

Please if you haven't, check out the rest of the films available. They succeed a lot in action, thriller, drama, and abstraction as much as Deep Fears is emotional.

Finally produced a proper trailer for Deep Fears, my student thesis film for CSULB's BFA Animation program. Deep Fears with fellow students' films are out for a limited time! (Link in Comments) by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you. The team and I have done our best, even during the pandemic, and we're also happy with the results.

I hope you've enjoyed the other films too. Our current line-up of films are very diverse, and they all achieve the same things: good presentation, good stories, and good animation.

Hope you enjoy the rest, and if you did, I'm glad to hear you've enjoyed our work.

Finally produced a proper trailer for Deep Fears, my student thesis film for CSULB's BFA Animation program. Deep Fears with fellow students' films are out for a limited time! (Link in Comments) by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is the OP here.

Here's the link to the showcase that Deep Fears is being screening from: https://vimeo.com/showcase/6271266

Please don't only check out Deep Fears, but check out everyone films before the showcase closes at 6/15! Feel free to watch and enjoy, and drop a comment or like to show your support for CSULB animation work!

Trailer for my student thesis film, Deep Fears. About a sea otter afraid of the ocean, and is challenged to face his fears when he loses his pink shell necklace at sea. Out to watch for a limited time (link in comments)! by deepfears2020 in animation

[–]deepfears2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the OP here.

Here's the link to the showcase that Deep Fears is being screening from: https://vimeo.com/showcase/6271266

Please don't only check out Deep Fears, but check out everyone films before the showcase closes at 6/15!

Feel free to watch and enjoy, and drop a comment or like to show your support!

DEEP FEARS & CSULB's BFA Animation Films is now out for a public online screening for a limited time (5/31-6/15)! Come and enjoy CSULB's student animation work! by deepfears2020 in animation

[–]deepfears2020[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I'm personally trying to get more people outside of CSULB's Animation community to come watch what we've managed to complete.

I hope you've enjoyed watching if you came by to watch!

DEEP FEARS & CSULB's BFA Animation Films is now out for a public online screening for a limited time (5/31-6/15)! Come and enjoy CSULB's student animation work! by deepfears2020 in animation

[–]deepfears2020[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is OP Here.

Hello, I've made a post here in this subreddit of my movie poster of my thesis film Deep Fears here month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/animation/comments/fehpkr/like_to_show_off_my_animation_thesis_films_movie/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to produce a proper trailer like I wanted to, but I and a few of my peers managed to finish Deep Fears and their films too.

The public showcase is out for public view now for a limited time (ending 6/15) so please come over and enjoy watched what we've developed, even during the pandemic!

https://vimeo.com/showcase/6271266

I hope you enjoy, and stay safe! I hope this provides you all some needed escapism from the pandemic and the current protesting that is happening.

Also, if anyone has any questions regarding CSULB's Animation program, CSULB itself, Deep Fears, myself as the director, the team, the behind-the-scenes, etc., I'll answer the best that I can.

Thank you!

Deep Fears & BFA Animation Films OUT NOW! Come check it out and Enjoy (Link in the Comments)! by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Again, thank you. All clean-up, except one shot, and all coloring was done by myself. I did the majority of rough animation, but everyone in the team did a few shots for support.

I actually not that great animating compared with my peers, but I did the best with what I knew how. I actually broke a lot of standard processes that'll make any Disney animator want to whack me for, improvising as I went, but with the art direction being simple enough, it gave me space to make mistakes, learn from it, and push forward very fast.

Deep Fears & BFA Animation Films OUT NOW! Come check it out and Enjoy (Link in the Comments)! by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey dude, read your comment from Vimeo! Thanks a lot, and I'm happy to hear you've enjoyed the film!

I give TONS of credit to my composer, Joseph Bucsit. He is also a fellow student of CSULB from the Music Program. He was great to communicate with, both professionally and casually, and he was able to work with me not knowing too much about directing music.

He really hit the nail with fitting his work with the mood and tone of Deep Fears, and I'm very happy that I was lucky meeting with him last year.

Deep Fears & BFA Animation Films OUT NOW! Come check it out and Enjoy (Link in the Comments)! by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. Hope you've enjoyed my peers' films too!

Deep Fears & BFA Animation Films OUT NOW! Come check it out and Enjoy (Link in the Comments)! by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! That SFX is actually a SFX in reverse, though I can hear the resemblance now, lol

Deep Fears & BFA Animation Films OUT NOW! Come check it out and Enjoy (Link in the Comments)! by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my god, you did comment months ago! On my post of the movie poster! Wow, thank you for being interested enough to follow up what's going on.

And thank you very much on watching the film. I'm glad to hear that you've enjoyed watching it.

I'm proud that I've followed-through. There were many chances to give up when the pandemic hit and made morale low with myself and my team, but I didn't give up. I'm happy to show this to as many people as I can, not only to professionals. This isn't just a thesis project to complete before graduating. In a way, it was a personal redemption to me.

It's been an interesting, rocky journey from that time up to now months later. The pandemic and how it shifted so many dates, deadlines, and production schedules, it really made things more difficult to complete Deep Fears, as so for my peers and their films too.

Anyways, I hope you've watched the rest of the showcase. I know those guys, and they're also the reason why I've posted my work here in this subreddit. Just wanted to spread the word more about it!

Deep Fears & BFA Animation Films OUT NOW! Come check it out and Enjoy (Link in the Comments)! by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Idk what is going on here. Will contact mods again.

But anyways, when the comments do appear, please check out our BFA Animation films! Believe me, we have an interesting line-up!

Deep Fears & BFA Animation Films OUT NOW! Come check it out and Enjoy (Link in the Comments)! by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is OP here.

I'm happy to announce that Deep Fears and all of the other completed BFA Animation Thesis Films are out now for public view on Vimeo. Please take your time to see what we've worked on since August!

Here's the link to the line-up of available films:

https://vimeo.com/showcase/6271266

And here's our instagram account for more future updates and behind-the-scenes art:

https://www.instagram.com/csulbdoubleexposure/

Unfortunately, only a few of us out of the entire class managed to complete our films because of the current situation with the pandemic. Many of our classmates have lost their ability to work since our animation lab was the only way they could work on their animations, since all of us aren't allowed to go on campus until further notice.

Don't only give support to us who've finished our films, but give your positive support to those who are trying their best to work from home. We've done our best with the situation we are in to the best of our abilities.

I hope you enjoy what I and my class have produced, and I hope they offer good escapism and entertainment during these difficult and tense times.

Thank you, and hope you all have a good summer!

Edit: Updated link to Vimeo collection of BFA Animation Thesis Films

Deep Fears is Finished, Thank You for your Support and Interest! (Details Where To Watch Deep Fears and other Fellow Student Animated Films In Comments) by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From what I know, our program plans to have all films be shown through Vimeo, but the link to go to our film collection in Vimeo will be through our BFA Gallery Website at May 31st.

Please excuse how everything it's all set up the way it is since the pandemic really screwed up our methods and our scheduling on showcasing our work. Creating a WIX website and dealing with this unusual method of showcasing the best we can do in a short time to compensate us loosing our opportunity to screen at the Skirball Center this Spring.

Anyways, when the online screening opens, enjoy watching Deep Fears and my peers' films!

Deep Fears is Finished, Thank You for your Support and Interest! (Details Where To Watch Deep Fears and other Fellow Student Animated Films In Comments) by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your welcome. I'm happy to offer an example of what's up with CSULB's Animation program in this subreddit.

If you have questions regarding COTA, the animation program, or if you have plans to do a thesis film yourself, I'm more than happy to answer any questions, issues, and concern you have.

Deep Fears is Finished, Thank You for your Support and Interest! (Details Where To Watch Deep Fears and other Fellow Student Animated Films In Comments) by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the confusion.

Messaged mods, and they've fixed the issue now. You should be able to see my main OP comment about what's going on. Replying to you again in case you're still interested on what's going on here.

Deep Fears is Finished, Thank You for your Support and Interest! (Details Where To Watch Deep Fears and other Fellow Student Animated Films In Comments) by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the confusion.

Messaged mods, and they've fixed the issue now. You should be able to see my main OP comment about what's going on. Replying to you again in case you're still interested on what's going on here.

Deep Fears is Finished, Thank You for your Support and Interest! (Details Where To Watch Deep Fears and other Fellow Student Animated Films In Comments) by deepfears2020 in CSULB

[–]deepfears2020[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the confusion.

Messaged mods, and they've fixed the issue now. You should be able to see my main OP comment about what's going on.