The lofty $110 million production charts the life and career of famous British pop star Robbie Williams, employing the cutting-edge Weta digital FX to represent Williams as a tuxedo-dressed monkey. While jarring and hard to accept from the onset,

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.

Wētā FX VFX supervisor Luke Millar describes finding the right balance to represent Williams as a CG chimp and how it all came together for the spectacular "Rock DJ" musical sequence.