Tim Mieville

Tim Mieville is an Australian puppeteer who is well known for working on Farscape the entire series doing assistance for John Eccleston. He operated Pilot's body and the arms of Rygel, even taking over the role of head puppeteer for the latter when Eccleston left. Tim even got to both operate and voice a character in one first season episode which isn't very common for a Creature Shop puppeteer. Mieville also worked on a few other projects, including the film Babe: Pig in the City, an episode of E Street, and Petals. It's a shame though that there isn't enough information about him online. Some of the other puppeteers he worked with include Graeme Haddon, Sean Masterson, David Collins, and Fiona Gentle, just to name a few. I wonder if it was hard for Tim Mieville to do either complicated puppets or realistic animatronics for the Non-Henson Babe sequel. There doesn't seem to be a lot of puppetry projects he did in his life, some of his projects involved voice acting like the ones mentioned above. Farscape must be his best known project to this day for he puppeteered two main characters for the whole run of the series. And Tim got to work alongside many puppeteers, some of them are under the Muppet performer category on the Muppet Wiki. Perhaps at some point in the future, Mieville will get interviewed on a podcast or something where he will talk about his career. He should be proud to have been one of the lead puppeteers on a Creature Shop series. Nothing is too good for him in my opinion. Tim Mieville, it's amazing how you were one of those lucky puppeteers to do so well on Farscape. You've also done well on the Babe: Pig in the City film since it was mostly shot on-location. Keep up the great work if you still are and always remember Farscape. You're literally out of this world Tim. Rock on Mieville!