How I got to make the first Star Wars Another question I am often asked is "how did you get started", making movies and building creatures for Star Wars. The truth is that there is no quick and easy route. Before we made A New Hope nobody would have anticipated a movie like the one we made

how the lightsabers worked So many fans ask me how the lightsabers worked that I have posted a diagram at my website to demonstrate. Find it at
http://web.me.com/maeztro/yodaguy/Star_Wars_blog/Entries/2009/7/22_How_the_early_lightsabers_worked.html

Updated info on us creating SW creatures I have been quiet for a while working on my movie museum at Planet paradise in St Maarten. But for your patience I have done a major update about the influences and personalities that shaped the creatures for the classic trilogy. This is true insider

Conceiving Yoda... There are so many rumors about the inspiration for Yoda that they are hard to count. Since I was in the workshop the whole time that Stu Freeborn was modeling Yoda, I have been asked repeatedly set the record a little straighter.

Creature effects school A lot of fans have written to me asking about a good school for creature effects. It is critical info for budding movie makers and model builders hoping to be the next generation of Star Wars techies.

Greedo - the alien makeover As I told you before, there were 6 of us in "the Old Schoolroom" at Elstree Studios creating creatures for the Mos Eisley Cantina while Stu, (Freeborn), our boss was building Chewie across the room

Harrison Ford before the world knew Han Solo Talking on http://twitter.com/thatyodaguy today brought to mind recollections of Harrison Ford while we were making ANH. Only Alec Guinness (Obi Wan) and Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin) were known stars when we prepared that movie and there was no clue

The full sized Wampa suit from ESB A few years back I was interviewed for the Star Wars Insider mag about building the Wampa. The original design was done by Ralph McQuarrie but took no account of the physical limitations that wouls be needed in order to make this creature work.

An unknown Star Wars hero Graham Freeborn is an unsung hero of the Classic Star Wars trilogy. Graham was Stuart Freeborn's son. He was Stu's lead assistant for making all the creatures filmed by the main unit in Elstree,

Chewie descended from 1001 A SPACE ODESSY It is an unknown fact that the Chewbacca suit was based on the work Stuart Freeborn and his team did on the SciFi epic 1001 A SPACE ODESSY.