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 exists to put studio power in the hands of individual filmmakers.  For most of film history, making a movie required permission - from studios, from financiers, from massive teams and infrastructure.  Asteria believes that era is ending.