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David Barrington Holt Dies: Led Jim Henson Company’s First West Coast Creature Shop, Was 79


One of the key men at the Jim Henson Company has died.

He made the move to Los Angeles in 1993 to establish and operate the Henson company’s first west-coast Creature Shop for the purpose of producing Disney’s television show Dinosaurs. He had creative oversight of shop operations, including puppetry, animatronics, effects for feature films, television, and commercials,performers; administrative matters, and R&D, with developments in the field of real-time 3D CG animation. Following his decades with the Henson Company, he spent three years consulting for Walt Disney Imagineering R&D, where he assisted in the technical transfer of innovative animatronic characters into public exhibits.

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