Creative director Tim Davies of The Mill led his team in bringing the strangely successful ladies' man(droid) to life in a live-action setting using color grading, compositing and matte painting. Using a real robot made the Mandroid's performance realistic: he was filmed in his environment with all interactions in-camera, which made for a seamless end result.

Davies elaborates: "The robot was rigged to enable him to move his arms and walk, whilst his eye movements, eyebrows and mouth were remote controlled. His voice was pre-programmed so that his lips could move in-sync with what he was saying. With all this great live-action footage, we tightened up his performance and made adjustments to his facial expressions and lip-sync to bring out more of his character."

Take a look at more weird and wonderful Old Spice campaigns by The Mill here.