Star Wars Costume Spotlight: Yoda

In my continuing Star Wars costume series, this next fan favorite will be of the great Jedi Master Yoda himself!

As you may know Yoda stared out in The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, and The Phantom Menace (prequel) as a puppet. Then in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith he was CGI.

Now before we go on to the puppet lets first look at these photos of how Yoda started out:

Here’s him as a puppet in The Phantom Menace (episode I). Note that the puppet looks like a very old muppet.

Here’s the first CGI version of Yoda from Attack of the Clones (episode II). From looking at him note that the CGI makes Yoda look like an alien that could have existed in real life.

Here’s the second CGI version of him from Revenge of the Sith (episode III):

At the museum, they included a display of one of the puppets from V and VI

Now here are some close ups:

In this close up notice that the number of wrinkles on the puppet’s face does make Yoda look really old:

Check out the string of his necklace–it’s very realistic. The cloak does look like it hasn’t been washed in years. Plus it looks like it’s been bleached out by the sun a bit.

Note here in this close up that the sleeve of Yoda’s cloak has a big dirty spot on it. His home planet is pretty mucky, so perhaps that accounts for all the dirt and wear and tear.

Here’s the full Yoda puppet: