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Most people in the astonished audiences who watched Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest last year thought Davy Jones was actor Bill Nighy in makeup. To pull the seaweed over everyone's eyes, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) invented iMocap to motion-capture Nighy's body, and artists at ILM painstakingly interpreted his facial expressions to perform the always-digital, many-tentacled Davy. For these efforts and other effects, Dead Man's Chest, which captured more than $1 billion in worldwide box-office booty, won a visual effects Oscar.
Fast-forward to this year's film, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third swashbuckler in a Disney franchise ...