A Love Letter to LA
Short Film
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Brand Video
Brand: Microsoft
Writer & Director: Paul Trillo
Original Art: Paul Flores
Artist: Cuco
Produced by Asteria
Producer: Douglas Emerson
Project Coordinator: Carley Burgess
Studio Manager: Benjamin Michel
Lead Animator: Eric Foster
2D Animators: Juan Lage, Nicolás Marsá
Additional Animation: Mohamed Fadera, Abel Barriga
3D Animation: Oszkar Nosek
Compositing: Paul Trillo, Joel Lava, David Craig, Eric Solorio
Editorial: David Craig
Sound Design: Douglas Emerson
AI Model Training: Minta Karlsson, Timothy Bielec
Generative Ink & Paint: Brad Tucker, Trent Hunter, AI Warper
AI Animation & Style Transfer: Brad Tucker, Trent Hunter, AI Warper, Oszkar Nosek, Yasir Masood, Jahmel Reynolds, Noah Miller
Production: Asteria Film Co., Hatch Pictures AI
Agency: TBA Agency, Rhizome, The Department
Special Thanks: Eddie Bezalel, Bryn Mooser, Verne Patrick
A Love Letter to LA is a psychedelic love letter to Los Angeles that transforms familiar streets into kaleidoscopic dreamscapes. Working with director Paul Trillo and artist Paul Flores, the goal was to bring the city’s energy to life in a surreal journey that bends reality while remaining deeply rooted in Chicano culture. The project reimagines Los Angeles not just as a physical place but as an emotional landscape shaped by memory, nostalgia, and reinvention.
Artifacts, a groundbreaking collaboration between Microsoft and TBA Agency, presents three visionary works that explore art’s next frontier. Using Microsoft Copilot and open-source AI tools these projects demonstrate how cutting-edge innovation can amplify deeply personal artistic expression while remaining fundamentally guided by human imagination.
Cuco is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Hawthorne, California. He is known for his blend of bedroom pop, indie-pop, and bossa nova, with a touch of psychedelia.
Asteria is an artist-led generative AI film and animation studio powered by the first clean and ethical AI model. Asteria produces animation, fiction, and non-fiction film and television, all through the lens of a filmmaker-first approach and alongside Moonvalley has built the first of its kind clean foundational AI model.