The bravura scene of Jones playing the organ with his tentacles is what really pushes it over the edge. Seeing how each tentacle on his face responds in its own unique way to being blown by a gush of wind or raindrops hit his face during a storm feels utterly real and tangible. If it can be real, just make it real.įinally, the way Davy Jones interacts with the environment really puts the capper on selling to the audience that this is a real person.
They get to completely avoid the number one pitfall that plagues character animators and effects artists. However, those windows to the soul are all his, and being able to look into those eyes to see what is happening inside this squid man's head is invaluable to connecting with him. He is wearing a motion capture suit, and everything else around him is animated. Pirates of the Caribbean gets around this with Davy Jones by actually using Bill Nighy's eyes for the character.
The digital dead eyes all those characters have are, at best, distancing and, at worst, horrifying. Think back to all of Robert Zemeckis' entirely motion capture films or young Jeff Bridges in TRON: Legacy. Eyes are one of the most difficult things to believably recreate in a computer and are often the major roadblock in audiences buying into seeing these digital creations as actual flesh and blood. They connect us to the people on screen because we can see their thoughts. Not to be too hacky about it, but the eyes are the windows to the soul. When you think of the worst digitally created characters in film, the thing that sends it straight into the uncanny valley are the eyes.
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