Carlos Chiriboga

99.9% of the scenes where you see Rocky, that's a practical effect.

That's not CGI.

That is a puppet.

This is huge for you.

The only times we ever used CG for Rocky was when it was absolutely impossible to do it with puppeteering.

Like, you know, if he's moving around in an area where it's impossible to get puppeteers going or if he's doing something that's impossible.

But it's extremely rare for there to be a CG scene

It almost never happens.

Almost every time you see them online at the puppeteer, there was a crew of six puppeteers who had to be in their, like, ninja outfits, hiding in various places, some of them underneath the set, some of them up in the ceiling, some of them hanging from wires, like, doing all this stuff.

Parts of Rocky were remote-controlled with very advanced servos and stuff like that.

It was all amazing.

We called them the Rocketeers.

The Rocketeers, yeah.

I love it.

And James Ortiz was the head puppeteer, and now it's been announced that, you know, we.

When we originally did it.

He did the voices.

Yeah, he did the voice of Rocky.

When we originally did it, he was doing all the voice, and we thought, we'll probably get, like, some really well-known performer.

Meryl Streep.