How ‘Finch’s’ Visual Effects Team Combined Practical Elements to Build Tom Hanks’ Droid

variety.com:

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorApple Original Films’ post-apocalyptic “Finch,” starring Tom Hanks and dropping Nov. 5 on Apple TV Plus, avoids the familiar sights of zombies and aliens.

Instead, it’s a story of a man who survives in a bunker with his dog, Goodyear. When he learns he has a terminal illness, he devises a plan to build an AI robot to care for the pup once he’s gone.VFX supervisor Scott Stokdyk and his team were called on to build the droid, named Jeff.

He’s the only other voice in the film besides Hanks, and comes to develop a soul.Stokdyk had actor Caleb Landry Jones dress in a special suit complete with a mask as well as practical elements like the robot’s outer arms and gloves. “We used the latest motion capture technology.