Short Film - Aunt Luisa - KnepperJ

Title: Aunt Luisa
Production: Blur Studio, www.blur.com
Story: Tim Miller
Direction: Paul Taylor, Tim Miller
Producer: Sherry Wallace
Concept Design: Chuck Wojtkiewcz
Animators: Marlon Nowe, Bryan Hillestad
Music: Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadian Orchestra

This short film starts with an old woman in curlers and nightgown sleeping on a chair with a cup of scotch in her hand. The narrator tells about his Aunt Luisa who a year ago started hearing Guy Lombardo music non-stop. He tells the story as Aunt Luisa searches for the source of the music throughout her house. She looks under beds, behind chairs in closets etc… She also set traps with milk and cookies trying to catch them. In the end she gives up and listens to the music except it drives her crazy because they only play one song.

This film was produced in 2002 and done in 3D animation by Blur Studio.

Blur Studio is based out of Venice, CA. It was founded in 1995 and they do animation for high-end clients such as, ABC, Disney, Universal Pictures, NBC, CBS, Microsoft, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sega, Sonic Team, Nintendo, Activision, Crytek, Nickelodeon, NFL on Fox, and THQ, and others.

Blur has done work on such productions as, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Tomb Raider Underworld, Transformers: The Game and many more.

I enjoyed this film because it had no real meaning and was just kind of “quirky”. I also liked the 3D animation. The only message I could derive from it was that sometimes you just have to sit back and enjoy the situation and not try to find the source.

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