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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge : Season 1
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Air date: 25 Mar '14 - 8 episodesTen 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™.
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List of Episodes (8)
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
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1. What Lies Beneath
25 Mar '14Brian 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.
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
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2. Return of the Skeksis
01 Apr '14The 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.
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
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3. Assembly Inspired
08 Apr '14Unconventional materials from a junkyard are used to create scrap-fantasy creatures that are trapped inside a hanging cage.
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
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4. Heads Up!
15 Apr '14A 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.
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
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5. Life in Motion
22 Apr '14An 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.
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
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6. Swamp Things
29 Apr '14The 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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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
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7. Alien Press Conference
06 May '14Gigi brings her "Farscape" costar Rygel to the workshop to offer inspiration when the creature designers are given the task to build original alien species attending an intergalactic press conference. Director Barry Sonnenfeld is the guest judge.
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
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8. Tavern at the Crossroads
13 May '14The final three receive help from contestants who were previously eliminated as they face their toughest challenge, which is to design, build and perform a full-body mystical creature, complete with props and special effects, for the chance to win a job at Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
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