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‘Sunny’: How Joanna Sotomura, Puppet Boot Camp, 100 Concept Sketches Helped Bring Bot to Life
How Joanna Sotomara, puppet boot camp, 100 concept sketches helped bring the bot to life.
I would do the rehearsals and scenes as Joanna, and they would put tape on my stomach for Sunny’s eye line, and I’d be rigged in a helmet with a ring light. Speaking with Variety, Sotomura explained how she spent much of the two weeks “trying to practice the head and coordinate it with the arms and the driving of the bot.” She added, “It took a little bit of trial and error, but by the end of the shoot, we got a pretty well-oiled little Sunny bot.” “They would observe and watch her, and when it came time to bring the puppet onto set, it would be with Joanna’s dialog, her head movements and the hands would move organically with her,” adds Hobern.
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