Lopht Magazine has a great article on the process & techniques used to create “Dr Manhattan” in the Watchmen film.
Crudup’s suit was also equipped with 2500 LEDs to create Manhattan’s diffuse blue glow. (Initial tests to ensure the suit’s effectiveness occurred in June 2007 with a naked Beowulf, also created by Sony Imageworks, standing in for Manhattan.) The lights stretched from Crudup’s head, fitted with a light cap, down to specially built high-tops with blue LEDs in the soles, and even special gloves, leaving only his face and neck uncovered. “He looked,” Travers says, “like a character from Tron.”
via The Making of Watchmen’s Dr. Manhattan – Lopht Magazine.
