Weed remembers engaged on the film, and initially catching wind that the creature division nonetheless wanted a swimsuit actor for the huge yeti.
“I volunteered proper off the bat! […] I used to be one of many 5 or 6 individuals who had been persistently doing creature kind work within the mannequin store. It simply so occurred that I received related on this present as the development supervisor and so I ended up going to the conferences and speaking with the artwork division. After I noticed the storyboards and discovered what we have been doing, I knew I actually wished to do that simply because I might been doing creature work for roughly 14 years.”
Having made so many creatures and fits previously, Weed knew precisely what was required of an actor, in addition to how heavy the swimsuit was going to be. He nonetheless volunteered, nevertheless it was going to be a tough day’s work. He continued:
“[B]eing the monster within the swimsuit is the last word, however I knew it was going to be a extremely uncomfortable, actually scorching, and, in a means, a extremely horrible factor to place your self by way of.”
The duty then started to ascertain a wampa in its remaining kind. Within the authentic reduce of “Empire Strikes Again,” audiences solely noticed items of it. This was going to be the primary seen, canonical look of a wampa, and Weed had to determine what sort of animal it was, the way it moved, and what its dimensions have been. Remaining true to what a viewer would possibly count on, the wampa was a humanoid yeti. Weed says he drew the look and motion from previous Ray Harryhausen-conceived creatures from fantasy favorites like “Conflict of the Titans” (1981) and “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963).