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Star Wars make-up artist (and designer of Yoda) Stuart Freeborn dies aged 98
Star Wars make-up artist (and designer of Yoda) Stuart Freeborn dies aged 98
Darth Editous
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Your powers are weak...
Wolfman
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I was lucky enough to meet Stuart a few years back. What a story he had to tell. He could have talked for hours about all the films he had worked on.
Sad news.
SilverWook
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I am ready for the trials!I can't imagine the OT without his contribution. Rest in peace...
Darth Editous
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Your powers are weak...When 98 years old you reach, have been as awesome, you will not.
pat man
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We want the originals, please restore them.R.I.P
lpd
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Use The Forks!Sadly Stuart Freeborn has died.
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/star-wars-artist-stuart-freeborn-dies-aged-98-080500367.html
Goodby Stuart thanks for the creations for which you will always be remembered.
Condolences to his family.
Sorry only just noticed other posts could a mod please add to other.
Anchorhead
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Hand Of JudgmentWhen people are discussing, collecting, watching, and dressing up as characters you created 35 years ago - that's talent.
RIP, sir. The films wouldn't have been the same without you.
Crimson. Eleven. Delight. Petrichor.
Mielr
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yavasizadooSorry to hear it. :-(
R.I.P. "Creamy" 2002(?) - 08/01/2010
SilverWook
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I am ready for the trials!http://starwars.com/news/stuart-freeborn-remembered.html
And a behind the scenes pic I never saw before...
AntcuFaalb
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The Interweb is a Series of TubesRIP
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Bingowings
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Magister Pontifex MaximusI've never liked the phrase "rest in peace".
Personally I hope that death is just a temporary glitch and he is back to work as soon as possible.
Who knows what the technology of the future will be capable of doing?
By all accounts he was a kind, good humoured and intelligent chap and I hope he finds a way back to us.
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- Anál nathrach,
- orth’ bháis’s bethad,
- do chél dénmha
SilverWook
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I am ready for the trials!Going to try and watch Dr. Strangelove over the weekend. (Freeborn did Peter Sellers' makeup.) Getting out to the Kubrick exhibit is on my to do list this year. One of the ape heads Stuart made for 2001 is on display.
Bingowings
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Magister Pontifex MaximusYes.. interesting one that.
Kubrick was keen to have all props, models and sets from 2001 destroyed but a few slipped through the net.
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SilverWook
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I am ready for the trials!I've heard varying stories about Trog. (One version is it was a prototype mask that went walkies.) I thought I was hallucinating when I saw a 2001 spacesuit backpack turn up in a Dr. Who episode. Stanley kept the Starchild, so I imagine he didn't have everything destroyed.
If you're a 2001 fan, these pics may break your heart...
skyjedi2005
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Jedi KnightIts only a matter of time before everyone who worked on the oot are gone.
It is Return of the jedi's 30th anniversary year. I think they waited far too long for these new movies. Ralph Mcquarrie is also gone.
Even Joe Johnston is showing his age. I saw him in an interview for Capt America and damn he looked like he aged massively since he did Jurassic 3.
"Always loved Vader's wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin's ghost. What a fucking shame." -Simon Pegg.
Bingowings
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Magister Pontifex MaximusYoda will always be with you.
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- do chél dénmha
Star Wars make-up artist (and designer of Yoda) Stuart Freeborn dies aged 98