Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge
Ten aspiring creature creators competing to out-imagine one another in a series of challenges where they build everything from mechanical characters to whimsical beasts, bringing high-end creature designs to life. The contestants compete for a prize worth up to $100,000 including the opportunity for the job of a lifetime - a contract working at the world-renowned Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™.
Overview
Ten aspiring creature creators competing to out-imagine one another in a series of challenges where they build everything from mechanical characters to whimsical beasts, bringing high-end creature designs to life. The contestants compete for a prize worth up to $100,000 including the opportunity for the job of a lifetime - a contract working at the world-renowned Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™.
Episodes
1. What Lies Beneath
Brian Henson welcomes 10 talented creature designers to Jim Henson Studios for their first Creature Brief: design and build an original underwater creature for a screen test on the Henson Soundstage.
2. Return of the Skeksis
The creature designers are given the chance to reimagine the fictional species Skeksis from "The Dark Crystal." Later, their characters appear in a screen test for the original 1982 film.
3. Assembly Inspired
Unconventional materials from a junkyard are used to create scrap-fantasy creatures that are trapped inside a hanging cage.
Cast & Crew
Brian Henson
Himself - Lead Judge
Gigi Edgley
Herself - Host
Beth Hathaway
Herself - Judge
Kirk R. Thatcher
Himself - Judge
