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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

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  1. E1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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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