10 Best CGI Movie Characters Ever

First appearing in the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie – 2006’s Dead Man’s Chest – Davy Jones managed to do what all great CGI characters should do. He had you second guessing whether or not this really was a computer-generated being.

At first glance – and even to this day – many would presume that Bill Nighy’s Davy Jones was a creation of practical effects and prosthetics. There’s that sense of physical realism to Davy that has you thinking of classics such as The Thing and Alien, and there’s not even the slightest whiff of shoddy CGI to the character.

You have to remember that this is a movie that was released back in 2006, which was a time where CGI was still finding its feet and often churning out some truly horrendous sights. But to the credit of those involved in Dead Man’s Chest, Davy Jones looks just as breathtakingly brilliant today as the character did 13 years ago.

Industrial Light and Magic was rightly awarded an Academy Award in 2006 for its work on Dead Man’s Chest, and a large part of that recognition was down to the sheer brilliance of what the company had done with Davy Jones.