"Out of Sight" is a student film from Taiwan in which a blind girl in search of her seeing eye dog begins to discover the world on her own.

This is a really cute little short done in the spirit, it seems to me, if not the style of Miyazaki. You can check out a bunch of pre production stuff on the films website, unfortunately the text is all in Mandarin.

http://evaty.main.jp/oos/making.html

out of sight from kynight on Vimeo.