
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge
- 2014
- Canceled
- Reality
- ~1h / ep
- 1 season
- 7.9/10
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™.
Latest: Season 1 · 2014
View all seasonsE1. What Lies Beneath
Mar 25, 2014 · 60m
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.
E2. Return of the Skeksis
Apr 1, 2014 · 60m
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.
E3. Assembly Inspired
Apr 8, 2014 · 60m
Unconventional materials from a junkyard are used to create scrap-fantasy creatures that are trapped inside a hanging cage.
E4. Heads Up!
Apr 15, 2014 · 60m
A humor-filled challenge requires the designers to create mounted creature heads that magically come to life under the spell of a wizard played by Donald Faison.
E5. Life in Motion
Apr 22, 2014 · 60m
An appearance by Lady Gaga's unicorn inspires the creature designers to create a larger-than-life creation with realistic movement, performed on a blacklight soundstage.
E6. Swamp Things
Apr 29, 2014 · 60m
The designers make camouflaged creatures hiding in plain sight for a mystical swamp-theme challenge. Neville Page ("Face Off") serves as guest judge.
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