The Jim Henson Co. will be honored at the Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced.
The honor is in recognition of the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio animation system. The company will be receiving one of four engineering Emmys given out this year at a special ceremony on Aug. 22 at the Renaissance Hotel.
The academy also will bestow at the ceremony its Philo T. Farnsworth Award to NASA, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing.
The other engineering Emmys are being given to the Fujinon Precision Focus Assist system, Litepanels LED lighting products and the Dolby DP600 Program Optimizer.
Receiving and engineering plaque is Grip Trix Electric Motorized Camera Dolly.
