Insane STAR WARS Rancor Costume from Comic-Con

When ILM was developing the effects for Return of the Jedi, they originally wanted to create the Rancor as a monster suit that someone could wear. They weren’t able to figure it out, so they decided to go with the puppet/model that we saw in the final product. 

Well, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage’s crew from Tested brought in special effects artist Frank Ippoliti to design and build a Rancor costume that was fully functional. They wanted one that someone could wear and walk around the streets of San Diego during Comic-Con. 

We're extremely excited to reveal our big creature project at Comic-Con: The Rancor! Effects artist Frank Ippolito designed and built this incredibly detailed foam costume in less than a month, based on references from an original test costume used for the Star Wars: Return of the Jedi production team. The Rancor came alive and roamed the streets of San Diego last week.

As you will see in the video below, the results are awesome and most impressive. I didn’t see this while I was at Comic-Con, but I wish I had! 

Thanks to Model-Space.com for supporting this project. Check out the Millennium Falcon model kit at: http://www.model-space.com/us/build-millennium-falcon.html We're extremely excited to reveal our big creature project at Comic-Con: The Rancor! Effects artist Frank Ippolito designed and built this incredibly-detailed foam costume in less than a month, based on references from an original test costume used for the Star Wars: Return of the Jedi production team.

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