Roller Coaster - CalArts 2023
My thesis film is finally here! It's about a nervous girl encountering a strange spirit at the train station. She was invited to try on a roller coaster. Hope you like it! X3
This film took almost seven months to make on my own. The sounds and music combined are also a giant project that's wonderfully done by my composer Peter Zongting Li. You can find more of his work here: www.peterlisound.com/
I've always wanted to make a film about roller coasters. To me, they represent the energy of life and the pursuit of otherworldly adventure. Those metal giants, forged by mankind, are created purely for joy. As my exploration of the literal "Roller Coaster" unfold, it got connected to a mental one, that is the drastically changing stress, fear, and anxiety we're going through in life. I hope this film can help you to find the courage to embrace and enjoy all life's challenges. As life is a roller coaster, and instead of fearing it, let's have some fun!
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The line "There is no fun - when you're being dragged along" weirdly resonated with me a lot. I don't think i ever realised how strong the connection between anxiety and that feeling like you "have" to do something really is - got me inspired to drive my own force more! Really beautiful animation and message. u awesome c:
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad that it helps you! Thank you so much!
@cosmica506
5 ай бұрын
Arrastada
i interpret this as a girl learning that to find joy in life she has to take the reigns and not be dragged along but lead :) i love it!!! the music and animation go together sooo well!!!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
> w < You got it!
@spdst1nk6932
Жыл бұрын
@@sapphirachen2457 yesss!! great job!!!!!
This is amazing! “Me”’s walk, the magical scenery, the creative idea, and of course, the fluidity of the dragon’s emergence and transformation into the coaster is insane. I think you really excel at rapid, engaging motion
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you like it tysm 😆
OMG that whole dragon scene was so EPIC like how some scenes were animated in POV that makes it seem like your are on the rollercoaster yourself!! Jaw on the floorrr
I actually want a full fleshed series between these two characters- Beautiful animation! Lovely story!
The red character reminds me of Mebh from wolfwalkers! The gremlin-y scurrying was very satisfying. XD
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
OwO! Mebh is one of the inspiration for her!
Nice Work 👏👏
The dragon feels like F Zero X on my old N64 with the cheesy guitarsound!
Really creative in the visuals of the dragon becoming a roller coaster. Beuatiful film.
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
> v < thank you!!
YOU'RE SO GOOD AT FLUID, QUICK, AND AWESOME MOTION SEQUENCES
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU SO MUCH MY FRIEND!
Wow, this is amazing! First of all fun concept, awesome character designs. And wow beautiful eyes! The dragon roller coaster is so much fun, and beautifully animated. The dragon eye close up was just AAAAA and the animation of going through the different kinds worlds through the dragon was beautiful and so much fun! Definitely gave me Spirited Away vibes, but it was still it's own thing. Absolutely fantastic work, I can't imagine the blood sweat and tears that went into this haha.
wow! this is beautifully animated, all of the characters movements were so fluid and the close ups on the eyes! wonderful
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much 😆
Holy Sheet 🤣 I LOVED IT. The voice over, the fluidity, the gorgeous and various range of different art styles, the transformation of “Me” and the dragon, the fluidity throughout the entire vid, and the beautiful metaphors attached to it.
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for liking it! > w
Holy Moly! WoW! ❤❤🧡🧡💛💛💚💚💙💙💜💜💖💖
Such smooth animation! Absolutely stunning
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
> v < tyty!
WOW THE ANIMATION IS JUST OUTSTANDING AND THEN ALL THE ANGLES AND SPEED DRAGON AND- UGH EVERYTHING IS SO COOL!!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU SO MUCH MY FRIEND!!!
The dragon looks incredible!!
I love this so much! I was hooked to the end, the middle got me surprised! The animation plus the music and sound are freaking awesome, emotional, interesting, breathtaking, it's CRAZY, like being on a real roller coaster! What an experience! Well done and thank you!!!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
> w
THIS WAS INSANEEE!!! Absolutely spectacular animation, woahhhhh!!!! 🤯
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
thank you so much!!
Life is a roller coaster 🔥
I want to be kidnapped by a carnie gremlin on my way to work ....
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
YYYAAASS X3
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
she'll come for you one day. 🎢
@lyndonwesthaven6623
Жыл бұрын
@@sapphirachen2457 🙏🙏🙏
That bird animation was smooth, excellent work
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
So fun!!
Up to 1:50, that's exactly how it feels when a cat decides you're its new human. :)
This animation was fire as hell, its so smooth and detailed
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you like it!!
Spectacular work, literally no clue how you're this underrated. Seriously, hope I can get as good at animation as you one day
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Wish you all the best for your animation path!
That was incredible! Please tell Peter that his composition was amazing. Paired with your animation, the dragon scene especially made me feel like I was playing a Sonic the Hedgehog game for the very first time again. It gave me the same 'wow' factor that jumping out of the helicopter at the beginning of SA2 did, if you've ever played. Every time I thought the scene was over it just kept twisting and turning and getting better. All hype, all speed, all awesome!!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Well do! Thank you so much for liking it!
This reminds me of my experience flying off to Israel earlier this year, I went for a semester of Bible college, I was so anxious on the flight there that I didn't sleep in those 15 hours despite taking off at night. Towards the end of the fight I was actually able to get a little excited, at the end of my stay there I had built up enough energy to be excited about the culture and people I met. My stay was unfortunately cut short because the administrator after an in depth conversation with my parents decided they weren't equipped to handle me because they didn't really understand autism (what's an area that I'm jumping over hurdles while they're running and not immaturity,) and that semester group wasn't too understanding either. I had built up enough drive in and of myself for the trip that I was willing to put up with slightly abusive or toxic, depending on how you define it, ignorance to complete the semester. Sometimes it's better to revel in that you don't know where life is going then sit there anxious that it's gonna go downhill. Also trying to find the fun in the mandane and first glance boring stuff, when it's not the time to be serious such a skill will let you enjoy life.
Idk if you have watched studio ghibli films like spirited away but your animation style reminded me of it. you are so skilled and this is wonderfully crafted. I absolutely loved the concept and the execution of it.
@ducklingandthetrees
Жыл бұрын
I had the same exact thought!!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
O v O! Yes I'm a huge fan of ghibli! tysm
@spdst1nk6932
Жыл бұрын
yesss especially in the MCs reaction to meeting "me"!!!!!!!
@benhung701
Жыл бұрын
And Princess Mononoke
I love the use of angles
This is REALLY amazing!! The dragon animation was INCREDIBLE i love it
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
> w < Thank you!!
Very beautiful scenes, it gives courage and spirit. Thank you for sharing!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad that it encouraged you! Thank you!
I love the change I eye colour at the end. This hole video is amazing th people who made this deserve a reward
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm honored!
OMG, that was like the best animation I have ever seen! First of all, the character design and the backgrounds and everything are drawn absolutely beautifully but also the motion of the camera for example in the scene with the dragon is really mindblowing. I was just really blown away when I saw this and had to leave a comment because it is just such an amazing work!!
This gave me major studio ghibli vibes! Keep up the good work!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
haha I'm a big fan for ghibli! Thank you so much!
Im in love with the detail when the dragon gets up close to the screen
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
It's my favorite shot! I'm glad you like it!
Oh my God the way the ambient noises and chatter fades at 0:48 is PERFECTION
This was a trip to watch, stunned.
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you liked the trip 😉
so well done.
Holy garlic bread this is amazing :0
Damn, you got a great talent for this! Again, so well animated.. keep going, its exciting! 💛💜💚
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!
That dragon looks so good
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
>:) thank you so much!
Bro that gremlin's voice reminds me a lot with Power's va. Idk if that was intentional or not
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
OwO...don't know what that is but sounds cool!
This was so incredible!!! The entire scene with the dragon and especially when it switched to that first person painted perspective was so beautiful, made me tear up how much i loved it!! So fun and i love the characters
I just _loved_ it. Jail bars could have been built around me while I watched and I would not have noticed, so absorbed was I in the film. Thank you for sharing your masterpiece.
Your animation took my breath away. It’s so fluid and detailed! I’m studying digital animation as well and it’s films like these which make me all the more excited to create my own thesis film. Your work is amazing and best of luck with it if you pursue animation further. Thank you for sharing your awesome, inspiring film!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm so honored!
you ATE that!!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!😜
The animation is super cool!!:) Damn! Great job!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
> w < thank you!!
This animation goes hard and is SUPER AMBITIOUS. Nicely executed.
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you like it! Thank you so much!
Ahhh the message I got from this story is so heartwarming! It's fun to make rollercoasters in our mind, but the rollercoaster of life is just as exciting and exhilirating, and we shouldn't forget that :,)
DRAGOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
YAAAAAAAS
i can see the ghibli inspiration!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
I'm a big fan of ghibli! Glad you see it!
the anime influence is strong in this one
It is very amazing the art style gave super awesome vibes
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
This is amazing! So much talent was put into this!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for liking it!
HOLY COW YOUR ANIMATION IS AMAZING. EVERYTHING IS JUST WOAH.
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for saying this!! It is worth it. 😄
Woaw their eyes is so s t u n n i n g 👁️✨
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
It's my favorite shot! Thank you so much!
BRO THIS IS AMAZING WTFFF GUD JOBBB
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU MY FRIEND!!
@diyadraws540
Жыл бұрын
@@sapphirachen2457
This is amazing, you are so talented!!!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!
I love every second of it
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for liking it!! It means a lot to me.
This is just… amazing.
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
> w < tyty!
1:16 the visible confusion on the face 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was amazing!!!!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you like it!!
AHHH AMAZING
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
> w < tyty!
Wow this is amazing!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
Loved the emotions. Loved the expressions, very well done, were all able to convey the strongness and intensity of emotions (I guess the body language helped too, even thought I kinda didnt focused on it during my first watch) and the music were really fitting. Also, good way to play with bright/dark and warm/cold colors, conveys in a really good way those feelings 👍🏻 As I aint a graphic artist, I sadly can't say much/realize much about the artstyle and the animation pathing quality etc... but everything else was so hella great, simple yet complex, doesn't need that much of explanation to be understood, just a really good job 👍🏻👍🏻
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the break down! I'm honored!
1:47 wa wa waeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeo
i have no idea whats going on, but i like the design for the spirit so i'm good.
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
hahaha thank you!! 😆
@foxpro3002
Жыл бұрын
@@sapphirachen2457 your welcome, can't wait to see more! 😁👍
Kobeni and power + ghibli studios
I was on a bus once, headed home. It was just your typical bus, full of typically tired people. And then this kid yells, "Look, Mom! A RAAAIIINBOOOWWW!!!" And sure enough, there was a rainbow arching through the clouds. In one Gospel passage Jesus says, "If you do not become as a little child, you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven." I think this is part of what He meant -- that you must never lose that shining sense of wonder with which you first saw this world as a child. Lose that, and Heaven is lost to you as well.
How old are you? Tell Me so I could be depressed haha love this OMG
*_Как говорится:_*_ "ничего не понятно, но очень интересно"_
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
lol thank you so much! 😄
@user-cp4wb7wi3z
Жыл бұрын
@@sapphirachen2457 your welcome 😁🤗
Девочка свихнулась, от серой жизни в эквилибриуме.
おもしろかったです!「キャラ・デザイン」も「アニメーション」も。 少し思ったのは背景が本キャラ・デザインと不釣り合いなぐらい「リアル」な方が良かったかも、です。 本アニメで「ジェットコースター龍」の「瞳」でやっていた様に、です。 でも、凄く面白かったです!!
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Where can I watch this anime? 👀 I NEED IT!!
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
lol Thank you so much!
Question to the animators, is this anime or are my eyes deceiving me?
Hi sapphira chen, I animating your characters dying with blood, are you alive please response. :'(
@sapphirachen2457
Жыл бұрын
hahaha i'm here! please have mercy though!