Re: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge, premieres Tuesday, March 25 at 10 p.m. ET Posted by Steve on Apr 09, 2014
The Junk Monsters this week was pretty cool. Interesting how they're doing teams so often these first 3 episodes, waiting to see individual challenges to experience the artists full body of work / style. Hearing one person this week say "hope it holds it's all hot glue" is funny I think we've all been there for one project or another 
Re: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge, premieres Tuesday, March 25 at 10 p.m. ET Posted by Shawn on Apr 10, 2014
Ok I've finally been able to catch up on these DVR'd episodes. I think maybe I am going to have a love hate relationship with this show.
Just like with Face Off, I hate that the builds are two to three days long. It gives the general public a false sense of the time it can take for most companies to design and build something that is truly show or camera ready. At least with JHCSC they acknowledge over and over that this is very unique. I think both the judges and the masters that work with the contestants have all said it more then once in each show.
I was a bit put off by the drama that others mentioned in first episode but in the following episodes it was not as bad and it really did illustrate the importance of working as a team. Spoiler Alert[\b] You notice that the one person that did not work well as a team player is gone now and that the other was real close to going home.
I realize that this show is designed to appeal to the masses but there is a lot of stuff there that can be useful to beginners and even intermediate builders. While they may not go into detail about things you at least get to see the guts of some things. For me if you show me the guts I can figure things out. Even for an old dog like me I see some of what they are doing and go yep that is how I figured it out. One example is the "teeter totter" mech used in the robot episode. Used that many years ago on a dragon head that had to be in an opera.
I say it worth the watch and does give puppetry a decent public face.
Just like with Face Off, I hate that the builds are two to three days long. It gives the general public a false sense of the time it can take for most companies to design and build something that is truly show or camera ready. At least with JHCSC they acknowledge over and over that this is very unique. I think both the judges and the masters that work with the contestants have all said it more then once in each show.
I was a bit put off by the drama that others mentioned in first episode but in the following episodes it was not as bad and it really did illustrate the importance of working as a team. Spoiler Alert[\b] You notice that the one person that did not work well as a team player is gone now and that the other was real close to going home.
I realize that this show is designed to appeal to the masses but there is a lot of stuff there that can be useful to beginners and even intermediate builders. While they may not go into detail about things you at least get to see the guts of some things. For me if you show me the guts I can figure things out. Even for an old dog like me I see some of what they are doing and go yep that is how I figured it out. One example is the "teeter totter" mech used in the robot episode. Used that many years ago on a dragon head that had to be in an opera.
I say it worth the watch and does give puppetry a decent public face.
Re: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge, premieres Tuesday, March 25 at 10 p.m. ET Posted by Shawn on Apr 10, 2014
Wait if you have TWC you should be able to watch them through the on demand menu... that is unless they changed things. No longer with TWC... now with Google Fiber. Yea!
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