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PostPosted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 1:49 pm 
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In their The Lives They Led feature in today's NYT, they noted the death this year of Stuart Freeborn, makeup artist extraordinaire.
Quoting from Wikipedia,
"Freeborn's most famous work is creating the make-up for all of the characters in the Star Wars trilogy, including Chewbacca and Yoda; he based Yoda on his own face and partly on Albert Einstein. He oversaw the design of the original Jabba the Hutt puppet used in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, as well as the creation of the Ewoks.
Freeborn was also the make-up artist on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, where he created the humans/apes for the "Dawn of Man" sequence. He worked on Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, handling Peter Sellers' multiple lead roles.
Here's a full NYT obit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/movies/stuart-freeborn-star-wars-makeup-artist-dies-at-98.html?_r=0

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