Star Wars Costume Spotlight: C-3PO

Hey Star Wars fans! Still continuing with the Star Wars costumes today, I am doing a post of a costume of another fan favorite R2-D2’s buddy and great translator—C-3PO himself!

I think Anthony Daniels is an amazing actor! And I’m even more impressed when I see all the parts to his costume (I’ll get to that later). But first, here are some concept sketches of C-3PO:

Here in this photo are the first 4 sketches of C-3PO. The first one has C-3PO look like a slim human-like machine with a humanoid mouth and eyes. In the second sketch (top), he looks like an exposed humanoid skeleton with an antenna. In the third sketch on the far right makes him look like a more futuristic machine. The head in the last sketch (bottom) looks like a kind of smooth robot head with round bumps for ears and three dots for the eyes and mouth.

In this composite sketch, C-3PO looks slimmer and more mobile, like Data from Star Trek.

Now on to the actual costume:

As you can see here in this photo are some of the parts of C-3PO—A prototype of his head, the chest, one of his hands (behind the chest), his eyes, his feet (one gold and one silver), two pieces from one of his legs, the body suit, and the two pieces with circuitry on them that are for the middle part of the body suit.

In this photo is bit of a close up of the body suit. Plus you can sort of see one of C-3PO’s hands this time.

Here’s a close up of the of the leg pieces and a piece of the middle part for the body suit. As you can see one of the leg pieces looks a little beat up and has a lot of scratches on it.