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 Muppet Central Help - Links
The Jim Henson Company is the official home page of Henson Family Classics and Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
The official Creature Shop site includes a wealth of information on past and present productions and the wonderful people behind-the-scenes at Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
Fraggle Rock, Creature Shop and similar likenesses are copyright of The Jim Henson Company.
www.muppetcentral.com /help/links/index.shtml   (1874 words)

  
 Amazon.com: No Strings Attached: The Inside Story of Jim Henson's Creature Shop: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Its a big, juicy, affectionate look at the adorable, sometimes eerie creatures that populate our culture via the big screen and that amaze us all. Matt Bacon has written on film and technology for magazines including Wired and Focus.
This book is great if you want to learn more about the movies that the creature workshop did instead of Jim Henson.
The creatures produced both during and after Jim Henson have been both imaginative and captivating.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0028620089?v=glance   (901 words)

  
 Wired 13.05: PLAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The film's relatively meager Hollywood budget (think $100 million or less) didn't support a high-tech extravaganza of aliens, gadgets, and exotic locales à la the
spaceship and Slartibartfast's mecca are CG, but the Vogons and Marvin the Paranoid Android, created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, are handmade.
The filmic version of the Guide, the electronic encyclopedia used to navigate the solar systems, got such raves from fanboys at early screenings that more sequences were added for the final cut.
wired-vig.wired.com /wired/archive/13.05/play.html?pg=1   (412 words)

  
 Starfarer - Reviews - Farscape (1999-2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It was produced by the Jim Henson company.
The show made heavy use of the Creature Shop to create bizarre-looking aliens, two of which were members of the regular cast (Rygel and Pilot).
The show managed to handle all of the sci-fi clichés deftly and turned many of them on their head.
www.starfarer.org /reviews/tv/farscape/index.html   (220 words)

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