YMMV / Jim Henson's Creature Shop

• Fandom-Enraging Misconception: Creatures are not Muppets and should not be confused as such unless you want to anger Henson fans. While both are made by Jim Henson and his company, they are in two separate camps and utilize different techniques (which the Jim Henson Company makes clear numerous times, such as this promo◊ for Creature Shop Challenge highlighting the differences between the two).
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • Fans of the Creature Shop are also fond of Puppet Heap, who they occasionally share puppetry and fabrication duties with on Muppet-related projects for Disney.
  • They also have some crossover with Industrial Light & Magic, due to their reputations for visually striking creature designs and imaginatively high concept fantasy projects. It certainly helps that they collaborated together on the cult classic 80s film Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, among other titles.
• Older than You Think:
  • The first cartoon to be animated using digital puppetry was the obscure Cartoon Network's series The Moxy Show, which premiered 15 years before Sid the Science Kid was made.
  • Henson himself was already experimenting with digital puppetry back in the late '80s and early '90s with The Jim Henson Hour and Muppet*Vision 3D, which had an animated character created with this method named Waldo C. Graphic.

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