1 WWW.EXTREMENETWORKS.COM Case Study: The Jim Henson Company Best known as creators of the Muppets and Sesame Street characters, The Jim Henson Company has been an established leader in family entertainment for more than 50 years. Less well known is the fact that in the company’s headquarters, behind the walls of the historic Charlie Chaplin Studios in Los Angeles, lies some of the most innovative puppetry, animatronics, and digital animation anywhere. The company’s engineers and artists have been exploring new ways to take puppetry to the next level with a proprietary workstation with advanced simulation capabilities driven by the Company’s own animation software engine. The workstation uses a joystick and a digital glove, enabling puppeteers to manipulate a digital puppet exactl

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