Trying to figure out when it goes from props/effects to Brad/effects. Obviously the infant baby is a little plastic robo-prop with some CG, but what about when he gets "healed" at the church? Was that Pitt already (with a bunch of makeup and more CG)? Only about the time he first meets Daisy does he start to take on some Bradness and clearly his voice, and especially a few scenes later when he takes a bath and notices the "changes".
shareBrad Pitt has been in every scene after the baby, they used his head in CGI.
He was awesome as an old man.
When he turns 17 that's when they use his real body going forward.
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Brad Pitt is in every scene after the scene of the baby, in the extra they explain that they used his head and expressions since the beginning, whereas for the first scenes they used the body of a short actor and with the help of special effects they ¨put¨" Brad´s head on his neck........
Haha spooky why would you make that up?
shareThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Making of HD 720p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYSXaU6eKm4
Brad Pitt's "live" performance begins when he's in Russia, specifically the scene where he tells Captain Mike "You do drink a lot."
In the early scenes up until that point, they digitally constructed his face--albeit using data from actual scans taken of him--and superimposed it on other actors' bodies.