Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge

7.9(11)|2014-03-25|1 seasons, 8 episodes

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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

Season 1(8)

S1E1 · 2014-03-25 · 60m

What Lies Beneath

7.7

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.

S1E2 · 2014-04-01 · 60m

Return of the Skeksis

8.0

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.

S1E3 · 2014-04-08 · 60m

Assembly Inspired

8.0

Unconventional materials from a junkyard are used to create scrap-fantasy creatures that are trapped inside a hanging cage.

S1E4 · 2014-04-15 · 60m

Heads Up!

8.0

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.

S1E5 · 2014-04-22 · 60m

Life in Motion

9.0

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.