Special Effects in Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest

The special effects in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 really blew me away in theatres. When I looked into how the Davy Jones effects were pulled off, I was amazed to find that Davy Jones is actually a fully digital actor. We’ve come a long way from the day of Jar Jar Binks, eh? ILM used Bill Nighy’s performance, dressed up in a silly suit made up of dots, to do a sort of “realtime” motion capture on the set, without needing a crazy set up of multiple cameras. Pretty cool stuff. They put together a web-site to show off the things they did for the movie. To the right is a thumbnail of their “experience” section, which allows you to roll-over the film footage to show the raw footage. Pretty nifty.