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Apple’s Sunny imagines a cozy future where screens fade into the background

A future you’d actually want to live in.

And when the citizens of this future actually interact with a display, whether it’s the phone or a computer or a TV playing 24-hour news at a convenience store, the screen looks like it’s made out of electronic paper. The show follows Suzie (Rashida Jones), who teams up with robotic home assistant Sunny (Joanna Sotomura) to solve the mystery of her husband Masa’s (Hidetoshi Nishijima) disappearance. After some research into the field of human-robot interaction — and working with the team at visual effects powerhouse Wētā Workshop — Robbins was able to find a look that both Suzie and viewers would relate to, complete with a big round face with huge, extremely expressive eyes that do an amazing job of conveying emotion.

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