Nick Maley "that Yoda Guy"
Movie making: STAR WARS and more, from a guy who was actually there! SUBSCRIBE & RING THE BELL or you'll miss a lot.
I'm Nick Maley, veteran CREATURE EFFECTS Designer & ComicCon personality, aka “that Yoda Guy” because I was involved in creating YODA for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and other characters for A NEW HOPE. Never heard of me? Put my name in Google. You'll find SUPERMAN, HIGHLANDER, LIFEFORCE, KRULL and other cult movies.
* BEHIND THE SCENES, memories and insights from PROFESSIONAL MOVIE MAKERS,
* ...especially STAR WARS,
* …Special Make-up and practical Creature Effects, from the artists who actually created them
The STUFF YOU DIDN'T KNOW about STAR WARS and other famed movies, sometimes crazy, often humorous stories of how your favorite movies were made.
How we created the STAR WARS Mos Eisley cantina
THANKS to our 2021 supporters
INSPIRATION FOR CREATING YODA
Bring Yoda to life again.. as we originally built him in 1979.
TAYLOR GRAY (Ezra Bridger) TALKS ABOUT STAR WARS REBELS
Classic Star Wars: George Lucas & Alec Guinness
Yoda LIVE with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra
STAR WARS MOS EISLEY BLOOPERS!
Yoda was NOT a Muppet, but they did help!
My 7.5 million views TRANSFORMATION
Ugly Yoda! Early concepts
Halloween special: Let's MAKE ZOMBIES !
Being Darth Vader: Rogue One Vader talks
rebuilding Yoda
NOT Harrison Ford in Carbonite!
Yoda started as a Smurf!
Insider secrets Star Wars and many more movies
the second Yoda puppet on Empire Strikes Back (there were 4 different Yoda's in that movie.)
Yoda's home made (2 minute) face mask made from paper towel
I bring Yoda to life again.. as we originally built him.
I recall how we made Yoda, Mos Eisley and more
Original Yoda team members reunited
Clip of me talking Star Wars for The Galaxy Britain Built
Character FX I created for music videos. Thin Lizzy, The Who and those Duran Duran wild boys
How I got into movies
Birth of Animatronics
My friend Jeremy Bulloch recalls portraying BOBA FETT
my movie FX evolution
Secrets of original Yoda Ears