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David Barrington Holt, Longtime Manager of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop in L.A., Dies at 78
David Barrington Holt, longtime manager of Jim Henson's Creature Shop and practical effects master, died March 13. He was 78.
In 1993, he moved across the world to Los Angeles to assist in starting the Henson Company’s first creature shop on the west coast in preparation to produce the characters for Disney’s 1991 jurassic sitcom “Dinosaurs.” At the Creature Factory, Holt oversaw creative oversight of shop operations, which included animatronics, puppetry, special effects, talent, administrative matters and research and development, including in the realm of real-time 3D CG animation. After his time at the Creature Shop, Holt spent three years as an imagineer at Disney, where he worked on the technical transfer of innovative animatronics for public exhibits. He then spent the rest of his career as a consultant for various companies, including the Chiodo Brothers, Insudung Media, 11:11 Creative and Reisman Models.
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