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John Coppinger

John Coppinger has been freelancing as a sculptor and anamotronics modle designer for over thirty years. His credits include Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, Greystoke, Santa Clause, Little Buddha, Babe, Walking with Dinosaurs, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Royal Institute Christmas Lectures and many more. http://www.johncoppinger.com/

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Star Wars

By John Coppinger
Published 01/1/2009
Movie Makeup

Creating 'Jabba the Hutt' by John Coppinger

This is the story of how I sculpted Jabba the Hutt, as part of his construction team and one of the operators on set. I was working for Stuart Freeborn on ‘Return of the Jedi’, when the film was still called ‘Revenge of the Jedi’. That was in 1981.

Stuart had granted me an interview, during my last weeks on ‘The Dark Crystal’, promised me a job and the first thing he asked me to do when I started was to sculpt the enigmatic Jabba character.

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