Uku Sculpt
This is the high resolution sculpt of Uku from the short “Lava”, directed by Jim Murphy. This is the first time we’d ever had to make a character that was essentially a set and it presented a number of challenges.
At the beginning of the film the camera gets quite close to the ‘arms’, so after the initial Layout pass I went back and sculpted extra details in the ridge that passes just below the camera.
I worked quite closely with the Production Designer Matt Nolte to bring Uku to the screen, and he was incredibly generous in sharing the design credit on the film.
Uku Final
The finished model as he appears in the film.