Martin JagoAnimatronics · Puppets · SFX

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hammer & Tongs/Touchstone Pictures
November 2003 - April 2004

Martin was an animatronics model designer on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London, from November 2003.

Creature FX by Jim Henson's Creature Shop

Animatronics Model Designer

Animatronic model designer for all Vogon puppet arms, background Viltvodle characters and Marvin the Paranoid Android for Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy poster

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  • The crew's farewell group photo on a grassy hill, many of them waving, with a green frog puppet held up in the middle

    Henson's Swansong

  • Concept painting of a Vogon in a long cardigan holding a small book, with the designer's notes in red

    Vogon Design

  • Arm chart for the Vogon characters, showing the poseable, glove and trigger arms for each type, with a handwritten note on arm lengths

    Vogon Arm Tally Chart

  • Animatronic Vogon hand mechanism with steel finger linkages, brass pulleys, cord tendons and yellow control cables, on white

    Vogon Mech Hand

  • Vogon hand mechanisms on a cluttered workbench beside a vice, a cordless drill and a foam glove hand, yellow cables trailing

    Vogon Hand Assembly Line

  • Rebecca crouched below a robed Vogon on the stone hall set, working its animatronic arm

    Rebecca Operating Animatronic Arm

  • Film frame: the Vogon Prostetnic Jeltz looms over two tied-up prisoners

    Jeltz with Mic + Book

  • Film frame: a Vogon at a lectern with rows of Vogons behind

    Vogon Assembly

  • Film frame: three Vogons around a table of small model ships

    Vogon Command

  • Film frame: a Vogon administrator at a desk between filing cabinets

    Vogon Administrator

  • Touchstone Pictures publicity wallpaper of Marvin the Paranoid Android pointing at the film title

    Marvin logo

  • A black and white cat lying upside down in fur lining inside Marvin's hollow white head shell on a workshop bench

    Marvin's Head for Gilbert's Basket

  • A grey wash drawing of a hunched figure in a long collared coat, marked up in pen with measurements and construction lines

    Army Joe Sketch

  • Concept painting of three stacked mushroom-cap creatures with blue bulbs, stamped Jim Henson's Creature Shop London

    Brellas Artwork

  • End-credits frame listing the Jim Henson's Creature Shop crew, Martin Jago among the animatronic designers

    Hitchhiker's Credit

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