timdiggerm said:

Maybe find a stopmotion guy to make the stopmotion Jabba head that never was....

Maybe not.

I considered doing the animation myself. I have the skill and the means to do it. But Jabba was established to be a big, fat slug in Jedi. And since this is a sort of "director's cut" created in a fictional 1984 from an alternate timeline, using the Special Edition scene might not look out of place.

Although the idea of creating a CGI slug Jabba so that he looks like he was done with stop-motion is a possibility. It would certainly make my fan edit very unique. But I think it might be more trouble than it's worth.

Perhaps if I collaborated with the folks who do Robot Chicken? Ha! That would be funny.