Early Baby Yoda Design Is Far Different Than The Current Adorable Creature

Baby Yoda quickly shot to fame with the release of Disney+'s The Mandalorian— but the cute green alien could have looked much less, well, cute.

The latest episode of a behind-the-scenes documentary series about the creation of theStar Warsspin-off series discusses creation and practical effects of The Child, more colloquially known as Baby Yoda.

"We all, I think, had a vision for what a bad version of it was," director Jon Favreau says in episode 5 ofDisney Gallery/ Star Wars: The Mandalorian. "And what was written in there was just that it was a little baby of Yoda's species."

"We got lots and lots of drawings. Some of them were too cute, some of them were too ugly, some of them were the wrong proportions,"Favreau adds.

Early designs revealed in the episode show The Child as far more wrinkly and haggard-looking than the final, adorable result that the Internet fell in love with.


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