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

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Jabba the Hut toy commercial (1983) | 1980's Child

Did you know Jabba the Hutt wasn’t always the slimy slug-like creature we remember? In Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), Jabba was initially portrayed by actor Declan Mulholland, a human! He filmed a scene with Harrison Ford where Han Solo confronts him about unpaid debts in the Millennium Falcon hangar. At the time, George Lucas envisioned Jabba as a stop-motion creature but couldn’t achieve the desired effect with the available technology and budget. Mulholland stood in as a placeholder, deliverin