We were thrilled to work with director Lucy Tcherniak and writer Katie Robbins in collaboration with Apple TV and A24 on the television series Sunny, based on Colin O’Sullivan’s novel The Dark Manual. For the dark dramedy, Wētā Workshop was tasked with creating Sunny, a homebot with adorable eyes and a gentle voice played by actor Joanna Sotomura, as well as other robots who featured in the series.
To bring the title character to life, we made a tele-operated puppet. Joanna’s performance fed through our puppet’s live facial capture, with three additional puppeteers operating the arms, motion base and facial animation in real time.
We were thrilled to work with director Lucy Tcherniak and writer Katie Robbins in collaboration with Apple TV and A24 on the television series Sunny, based on Colin O’Sullivan’s novel The Dark Manual. For the dark dramedy, Wētā Workshop was tasked with creating Sunny, a homebot with adorable eyes and a gentle voice played by actor Joanna Sotomura, as well as other robots who featured in the series.
To bring to life the title character, we made a tele-operated puppet. Joanna’s performance fed through our puppet’s live facial capture, with three additional puppeteers operating the arms, motion base and facial animation in real time.
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