To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Portraying Robbie Williams as a CGI-created monkey has made actor Jonno Davies responsible for one of the most talked-about performances of the year, even if there’s still a fair amount of confusion over what’s him, what’s Robbie and what’s computer wizardry.
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Thanks to the power of motion capture and Weta’s industry-leading VFX, Davies is able to appear as a walking, singing, dancing chimpanzee version of Robbie in a movie-stealing turn that both immediately makes sense and also helps provide musical biopic Better Man with a unique creative vision.
It might be Candy and Millennium chart-topper Williams’ eyes that you’re recognising in monkey Robbie’s face, but the heart of the performance – its facial expressions, movements and speaking voice – is all provided courtesy of Davies, 32, in what he tells Metro is a ‘full kind of performance capture’.
‘Rob has got a weird accent. If you look at old interviews with him when he was at 15, he almost sounds like a Scouser. He really kind of transcends in like the pitch of his voice, so that was one of the things I wanted to try and to try and to nail down as much as I could,’ he reveals.
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