Wax and Fur and Everything

"The wampa snow creature in The Empire Strikes Back was another one of our knock-together things. Phil (Tippett, Creature Designer) would say 'We've got this thing to do. I'll get a block of wood and some hinges from the carpentry department and you get a crowbar.' And then we'd discuss how far we'd want the jaw to open up and I'd knock together something that we'd use as a puppet and then he would go and do his beautiful build-up work with all of the stuff -- wax and fur and everything"

- Jon Berg
Creature Designer
ILM: The Art of Special Effects