Finch Film [upd] Today

: Jeff was portrayed by Caleb Landry Jones using motion capture technology. To ground the robot in the real world, the production used a "Moven suit" to record Jones's movements and "legacy puppeteers" to start the evolution of the robot's physical presence before visual effects animators took over.

Finch Weinberg, a dying robotics engineer living in an underground lab in St. Louis, builds an advanced humanoid robot named to protect his dog, , after his death. The Journey: finch film

Finch spends his last days teaching a machine to be gentle. He writes a manual for a future he won’t inhabit. That’s the human condition distilled. Every parent, teacher, or mentor faces the same abyss. The film’s radical answer: Yes. And the act of teaching is the meaning, not the outcome. : Jeff was portrayed by Caleb Landry Jones