Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s instaling

Davy in particular was a lead character, constantly subjected to revealingly bright lighting and unforgivably tight close-ups that would highlight even the slightest flaw in the effects work.

Davy and seventeen of his transmogrified crew were digital creations that had to blend in seamlessly with the flesh-and-blood actors. Hickel, visual effects art director Aaron McBride, and creature model supervisor Geoff Campbell.ĭead Man's Chest introduced a slew of new characters to the franchise, chief among them Davy Jones, the captain of the Flying Dutchman.

I recently had a chance to visit ILM's offices in San Francisco and chat about the extensive effects work in Dead Man's Chest with several of the folks there, including animation supervisor Hal T. Virtually everyone at ILM was toiling away on the movie at its peak, using their digital wizardry to bring to life creatures as varied as the mammoth, monstrous Kraken to a tiny hermit crab that Bootstrap Bill munches on. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest proved to be one of the most ambitious projects that Industrial Light and Magic had tackled in their illustrious thirty year history, featuring right at a thousand visual effects shots - almost triple the number of The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s instaling