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Living Blueprint - Whiteboard Animation hapanimation 1,733 views Visit http://www.livingblueprint.com - An animated video illustrating Vancouver based branding company Living Blueprint's branding philosophy. Animated by hand by Jeff Chi...
The Origin of Hapa hapanimation 1,295 views Visit http://www.onebighapafamily.com to order DVD of One Big Hapa Family! This sequence is a clip from the feature length award-winning animated documentary, One Big Hapa ...
Stop Motion Self Portrait hapanimation 776 views To attend the 2010 Toronto Int'l Film Festival Talent Lab, participants had to create a self portrait project using a cell phone. Since my old iPhone didn't have a video c...
One Big Hapa Family - Trailer hapanimation 20,025 views Buy a DVD at http://www.onebighapafamily.com One Big Hapa Family - 85 min/48 min, 2010, HD - Trailer for the live action and animated feature documentary by Jeff Chiba Ste...
Meditating Bunny Studio Reel 2010 hapanimation 22,600 views A sample of award winning short, feature, and commercial work created at Meditating Bunny Studio Inc. by animation and documentary filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns. Keeping a...
Anythink hapanimation 31,500 views This Anythink "branimation commercial ID" developed by Anythink partners Ricochet Ideas and Meditating Bunny Studio Inc., represents the many things a doodle can become and...
Kip and Kyle hapanimation 87,953 views Jeff Chiba Stearns' first animated film created in 2000. Through the use of expressive classical animation, Kip and Kyle captures the excited gestures of two enthusiastic b...
Yellow Sticky Notes - Tribeca Film Fest Director's Statement hapanimation 25,833 views This is a video I had to make for the Tribeca Film Festival - April 2008. It is a video director's statement for my film Yellow Sticky Notes. In the video I explain why I m...
Yellow Sticky Notes hapanimation 1,832,425 views Yellow Sticky Notes merchandise available at http://www.cafepress.ca/meditatingbunny in Canadian and US prices depending on your region! Like http://www.facebook.com/chiba...

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Jeff is available for animation commissions and commercial work. Please visit www.meditatingbunny.com for contact info!

Yellow Sticky Notes merchandise available at www.cafepress.ca/meditatingbunny

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Jeff Chiba Stearns is a multi award-winning animation and documentary filmmaker. Born in Kelowna, BC, of Japanese and European heritage, he graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a degree in Film Animation in 2001. Soon after, he founded Meditating Bunny Studio Inc., which specializes in the creation of animation and documentary films aimed at both children and adults that combine different philosophical and social elements together to create humorous, entertaining, and inspiring stories. The studio has also created broadcast and viral commercials for such clients as 3M, Sharpie, and Generali. His animated shorts, Kip and Kyle (2000), The horror of Kindergarten (2001), What Are You Anyways? (2005), Yellow Sticky Notes (2007), and Ode to a Post-it Note (2010) have screened in hundreds of film festivals around the world, garnered 29 awards including a Webby Award, and broadcast internationally.

"What Are You Anyways?", winner of the 2006 ELAN for Best Animated Short Subject, was the first animated film that explored multiethnic issues and lead Chiba Stearns to become an international spokesperson on mixed-race identity. He coined the term "Hapanimation" to describe his style which blends Japanese animation with a North American animation style. Yellow Sticky Notes (2007), winner of the Prix du Public at the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival was animated with just a black pen on over 2300 sticky notes and is the official selection of over 80 international film festivals, winning 10 awards. Yellow Sticky Notes was also one of the first films acquired by YouTube's Screening Room and has since achieved over 1.7 million views.

Jeff Chiba Stearns' latest film and first feature documentary, One Big Hapa Family (2010), is about children of mixed-Japanese descent and the high Japanese-Canadian interracial marriage rate. The award-winning documentary was funded by Rogers, Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, NAJC, CIFVF and Knowledge. In 2010, he was awarded the Emily Award from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design for outstanding achievements of an alumni. As well, he was awarded the Cultural Pioneer Award by Harvard University in 2011 for his continued exploration of multiethnic identity in his work. On top of filmmaking, Chiba Stearns has also instructed college animation, written articles for national publications and lectured around the world on topics of multiracial identity, cultural awareness, filmmaking, short film distribution, and animation.

Filmography
2000 Kip and Kyle (classical animation -- 0:47 min.)
2001 The horror of Kindergarten (classical w/ computer animation -- 5:07 min.)¬
2005 "What Are You Anyways?" (classical animation -- 10:40 min.)
2007 Yellow Sticky Notes (classical animation -- 6:00 min.)
2010 One Big Hapa Family (live action with animation -- 85:00 min.)
2010 Ode to a Post-it Note (stop motion animation -- 5:10 min.)

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Animation Filmmaker, Owner, Director, Producer

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