Richard Darwin

Richard Darwin was an animatronic designer and technician with Jim Henson's Creature Shop for over twenty years.

Darwin began his film effects career on Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth  and Waxwork II: Lost in Time. Other credits outside the Creature Shop include 102 Dalmatians (for Neal Scanlan's studio), Dog Soldiers, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Underworld: Awakening (working on the lycans), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Into the Grizzly Maze. For Rise of the Planet of the Apes, he puppeteered Baby Caesar.

Creature Shop credits

 * The Flintstones - Mechanic
 * The Neverending Story III - Mechanic
 * Babe - Animatronic technician
 * Loch Ness - Mechanical technician
 * 101 Dalmatians - Animatronic designer
 * The Adventures of Pinocchio - Animatronic designer
 * Buddy - Key animatronic designer
 * Lost in Space - Key animatronic designer
 * Farscape - Prosthetics and creature effects ("Exodus from Genesis")
 * Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story - Animatronic designer
 * Five Children and It - It animatronic body supervisor
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Animatronic designer/on-set supervisor
 * Mee-Shee: The Water Giant - Mechanic