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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge

Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge

Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge

2014 1 Seasons 8 Episodes ⭐ 7.9 Reality

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™.

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™.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

What Lies Beneath

Brian Henson welcomes 10 talented creature designers to Jim Henson Studios for their first Creature Brief: design and bu

EP 2

Return of the Skeksis

The creature designers are given the chance to reimagine the fictional species Skeksis from "The Dark Crystal." Later, t

EP 3

Assembly Inspired

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

EP 4

Heads Up!

A humor-filled challenge requires the designers to create mounted creature heads that magically come to life under the s

EP 5

Life in Motion

An appearance by Lady Gaga's unicorn inspires the creature designers to create a larger-than-life creation with realisti

EP 6

Swamp Things

The designers make camouflaged creatures hiding in plain sight for a mystical swamp-theme challenge. Neville Page ("Face

EP 7

Alien Press Conference

Gigi brings her "Farscape" costar Rygel to the workshop to offer inspiration when the creature designers are given the t

EP 8

Tavern at the Crossroads

The final three receive help from contestants who were previously eliminated as they face their toughest challenge, whic

Popular Cast

Brian Henson

Brian Henson

Himself - Lead Judge

Gigi Edgley

Gigi Edgley

Herself - Host

Kirk R. Thatcher

Kirk R. Thatcher

Himself - Judge