How Star Wars designers came up with Jabba the Hutt | VICE

Jabba the Hutt has appeared in three distinct forms since Star Wars: A New Hope. The character’s first version was a deleted 1977 scene featuring a human actor, Declan Mulholland, as a stand-in. In 1997, George Lucas restored the scene with CGI for the Special Edition, introducing a computer-generated Jabba that was widely criticized for poor visual quality. A refined CGI version followed in the 2004 DVD release, improving Jabba's textures and movements—this is the version still used in current