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3rd December 2015
06:28pm GMT

According to Mental Floss, special effects artist and Star Wars Stuart Freeborn revealed he was inspired by a poster of Albert Einstein that was hanging in his office.
Basing the character’s design on Einstein’s face, Freeborn said he used the eyes and wrinkles to create Yoda’s final look.
Speaking to CineSecrets, artist Nick Maley explained:
“...A picture of Einstein ended up on the wall behind the Yoda sculptures and the wrinkles around Einstein's eyes somehow got worked into the Yoda design. Over the course of this evolutionary process Yoda slowly changed from a comparatively spritely [sic], tall, skinny, grasshopper kind of character into the old wise spirited gnome that we all know today. The final step in that transformation was Franks [Oz, sic] insistence that the puppet should have no jaw fitted. That allowed him more freedom for expression as a puppeteer but it also meant that the skin hung loosely below the cheeks and that gave Yoda an older, rather chinless look that is quite different to the drawings Ralph [McQuarrie] did."
We knew there was wisdom behind those eyes.
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