Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was dubbed "Bouillabaisse" on set. Captain Davy Jones had originally been designed with chin growths, before the designers made the move to full-blown tentacles; the skin of the character incorporates the texture of a coffee-stained Styrofoam cup among other elements. To portray Jones on set, Bill Nighy wore a motion capture tracksuit that meant the animators at Industrial Light & Magic did not have to reshoot the scene in the studio without him or on the motion capture stage. Nighy wore make-up around his eyes and mouth to splice into the computer-generated shots, but the images of his eyes and
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Magic before being cancelled. Ron Gilbert, the creator of the "Monkey Island" series, has jokingly expressed a bitterness towards "Pirates of the Caribbean", specifically the , for its similarities to his game. Gilbert has also stated that "On Stranger Tides", a novel by Tim Powers which was adapted into the , was the principal source of inspiration for his video games. Verbinski did not want an entirely romanticized feel to the film: he wanted a sense of historical fantasy. Most of the actors wore prosthetics and contact lenses. Depp had contacts that acted as sunglasses, while Rush and Lee Arenberg