Chiba Stearns’s first feature-length documentary and animation hybrid, One Big Hapa Family, released September 2010, explores the lives of children of all ages from interracial marriages and how they perceive their mixed-race identities at a young age. The documentary begins after a realization that Chiba Stearns has at a family reunion which sets him on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married inter-racially after his grandparents’ generation. The film has since gone on to screen at over 20 film festivals and win 6 awards. One Big Hapa Family has also screened at many North American universities including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Cornell. On top of filmmaking, Chiba Stearns's animation studio, Meditating Bunny Studio Inc., has created commercials and viral videos for clients such as 3M, Generali, and Sharpie. In 2010, his short animated film, "Ode to a Post-it Note", won the Webby Award for Best Branded Entertainment at the 15th Annual Webby Awards. The film was commissioned by 3M Canada to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Post-it Note and features Post-it Note inventor, Arthur Fry. As a follow up to his 2007 animation, Yellow Sticky Notes, Chiba Stearns has assembled 15 influential independent animators from across Canada to participate in an collaborative anijam entitled, Yellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam. To create the film, the animators are asked to utilize what Chiba Stearns has coined "animation meditation" to self reflect by only drawing on 4x6 inch sticky notes. The film has since gone on to screen at over 60 international film festivals including Hot Docs and Ottawa International Animation Festival. Chiba Stearns' second feature length documentary, Mixed Match (2016), explores the complexities multiethnic people with rare blood diseases face when trying to find bone marrow donors. The film has screened at over 30 international film festivals and won 5 audience awards as well as the Best of the Northwest Award at the Spokane International Film Festival and the Grand Prix for Best Documentary at the Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival. In 2018, Chiba Stearns wrote and illustrated his first children's book, Mixed Critters, an ABC book of hybrid animals. In 2020, he released his second children's book, Nori and His Delicious Dreams, about a mixed Japanese Canadian boy who dreams of sleeping in foods from around the world.