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

External links

Official site