Face Off (2011) s01e01 Episode Script

Tonight, it's a competition like no other.
We brought 12 talented special effects makeup artists to Los Angeles, where they'll compete to join the world's elite.
Week after week, they'll face surprising challenges Drop 'em.
Oh, my God.
What am I going to do? with seemingly impossible deadlines.
[bleep.]
whoa! As the pressure rises I'm having a panic attack.
You want to [bleep.]
do details, do details.
I feel like I'm being made out to be the bad guy here.
some will crumble Whoa! You okay? I basically just lost the [bleep.]
competition.
We have no idea what the hell we're doing.
This might be the end.
while others will shine.
- Holy [bleep.]
.
- That's crazy.
I think we found our challenger over here.
Time's up, everybody.
To make it to the top, they'll have to impress our award-winning panel of judges- Ve Neill, the legendary makeup artist, 8-time Oscar nominee and 3-time winner whose work includes "Edward Scissorhands", "Beetlejuice", "Batman Returns", "Mrs.
Doubtfire", and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films; Glenn Hetrick, cutting-edge makeup effects artist on "Heroes", "Legion", "CSI: New York", "X-Files", and "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"; and Patrick Tatopoulus, visionary creature designer for "Independence Day", Godzilla", "Stargate", "I, Robot" and director of "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans".
I'm a very, very big fan of your work.
I'm blown away.
I love this challenge.
Who will be the next great name in movie magic and earn $100,000 dollars and a year's worth of makeup from Alcone? Get read for "Face Off".
Tate: My name is Tate.
I'm 31 and I live in Brooklyn, New York.
I've been doing special effects for eight years.
I am extremely excited to show everyone what I can do.
Megan: My name is Megan.
I'm 24, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
I am ecstatic to be here.
Winning this is very important to me.
I don't want to clean up shop floors anymore.
Jo: I'm Jo Holland.
I'm 21, straight out of school.
My mother was very young when she had me.
She let me be creative and do my own thing, and now I'm in an industry that I love.
That's why I would love to win this and I'd love to make her proud.
- What's your name? - Megan.
- Megan, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- And you? - Anthony.
- How you doing, Anthony? - Nice to meet you, too.
I own a makeup effects company in New York City.
I've been doing this about 15 years.
I'm a self-proclaimed MacGyver of makeup.
I will take whatever I need to to get it right.
- How's it going, guys? - How you doing? My name's Tom.
Tom: I've been making monsters for 11 years.
I am very dyslexic.
I have a real hard time reading and writing.
That's kind of why I chose the arts.
- Tate.
- Tate! - Nice to meet you.
- Tom.
Tom.
Sergio.
I'm from San Antonio, Texas.
I'm 31 years old.
Did everybody here go to school? Man: Yeah.
Sergio: I've never really had formal training, so it's a little scary because it made me think about my shortcomings.
Keep it going.
It's a party.
Gage: My name's Gage Hubbard.
I've been in the business for six years.
I'm super excited to be a part of this competition.
It could make or break my career.
- How are you? - What's your name? Hey, what's up, Tom? Tommy and I have had a long history of working together, and we can bump heads creatively.
Tom: Definitely, Gage was my protege.
His first six films were with me or from me.
Frank: My name's Frank Ippolito.
I've lived in Los Angeles for 10 years.
I'm in magazines, on TV, and I work on these giant movies.
I can't settle for last.
Conor: My name is Conor McCullagh.
I currently live in Orlando, Florida.
I'm relying on the skills that I've been honing for 20 years to win this thing.
[chattering.]
McKenzie: Hey, guys.
Welcome to "Face Off".
I'm your host, McKenzie Westmore.
Gage: I know the Westmore name.
Her whole family's been a huge influence on the makeup industry for so long.
Conor: Westmore is synonymous with makeup effects, especially with all the "Star Trek" series.
I was very much in awe.
Over the next coming weeks, you will all be put to the test as we determine who among you is the best special effects makeup artist.
Is everyone up for the challenge? All: Yes.
Good, because your first competition starts right now.
Megan: This is the first day, I have a cute little dress on, drinking champagne, and now you want to challenge me.
Good God.
This is a Foundation Challenge.
Foundation Challenges give you a perk or advantage going into the Spotlight Challenge, where someone will be eliminated each week.
Before we begin, I would like to introduce you to your judge for this challenge.
He's work on everything from "Buffy" and "X-files" to "The Prestige" and "Legion".
Please welcome Glenn Hetrick.
- Hey, Glenn.
- Hello.
Tate: Glenn's done everything, so when I heard he was a judge, I literally back-flipped.
McKenzie: Everything that you see in this room is going to be a part of this challenge.
In fact, your waiters are going to be your models.
Guys? Wow.
Each model has a makeup kit provided by Alcone.
You're going to have to create an original face makeup on your subjects.
Wow, man.
You're also going to have to integrate at least one item from this party into your makeup.
And the stakes are huge.
The winner tonight gets immunity from this week's elimination.
We're looking for originality in your design.
But most importantly, I'm looking for good technique in your application and your paint.
You have two hours, and your time starts now.
Megan: I grab the balloons.
I know nobody's going to grab the balloons.
Tate: I saw these awesome flowers.
I'm going to glue them to the head as horns.
I'm Sam, and I'm currently living in Decatur, Georgia.
I have a lot of classic arts training, but I'm here to challenge my skills.
Get going with this.
Marcel: My name is Marcel and I saw my first horror film when I was four years old.
My parents explained to me, "That's makeup, that's an actor.
" And I was like, "That would be so cool to do.
" What the hell is this? Anthony: The first thing I did was I opened up my box and I started ripping through it.
All right, brush kit.
I recognized 90% of the stuff in there.
I was thanking God.
Jo: It's extremely intimidating.
You almost have to be a chemist for most of this stuff that we're using.
Frank: It was really hard to even come up with something.
But I saw these peacock feathers that looked like eyes and I tried to make something that was a bit sensible.
Conor: There were pre-made prosthetic pieces in the kit, and I found this leopard nose.
And I was like, "This is perfect.
" So you're going to be a reptilian creature.
I'm gluing heavy pineapple leaves onto a guy's face.
I grab the Pros-Aide.
It's a contact cement that can hold foam on real well.
I figure a happier zombie to show my personality.
So I'm going to make teeth out of cauliflower.
Jessica: I'm Jessica Kramer from Scottdale, Pennsylvania.
I know I already beat out a bunch of people to get here and people would die to be in my spot, so I know it's going to be tough.
It's going to be very tough.
You have one hour left.
How you guys doing? I'm just about done.
Frank: Just by me being a big mouth, I think that throws a couple people off their game.
You guys can take your time on the rest of that hour.
"I'm almost done!" I'm almost done!" Shut up, Frank.
Anthony: This guy puts on a prosthetic and puts some brown makeup on it and sat down and started eating.
Wow, this guy, he's really full of I knew that a lot of people we're going to go for horror.
I wanted to do something a little more artistic.
You never quite know how it's going to turn out.
If something doesn't work, find another creative way of doing it and it looks better than what you've already thought of.
Tate: With about 45 minutes left I had to abandon the horn idea because they started to do this.
These things were literally secreting juice.
I'm not a botanist.
I don't know this stuff.
Your time is up.
I'm completely unhappy.
- Hey, Tate.
- Hey, what's going on? You want to tell us a little bit about what you did here? Tate: I didn't get to do exactly what I wanted, but I think that I pulled a decent character together.
You do, huh? Well, I guess that's your call.
How about the color? I didn't have a chance to go in and powder.
I'm happy with my edges.
All right.
Thank you.
Gage: I was expecting the worst.
I literally put up my shield and was like, "All right, let's hear it.
" My whole idea was as if he was going to pick up his prom date and she took his flowers and smashed them up through his face.
But I also wanted to have a little bit of symmetry.
I wanted it to be a little bit more interesting than just mush on his face.
I actually really like this, a lot.
What excites me about what you're saying is that the symmetry is on purpose.
Fundamentally, it's very well done.
Thank you.
Marcel: I don't care how confident you are, if someone of that caliber is up in your work, you're going to be nervous.
I was trying to incorporate the hotel into this makeup.
She came here on a date, got turned down, and she had revenge.
I think David Bowie is going to love it.
You've got the idea.
I don't think that comes across.
Anthony: I'm watching Glenn, and as he's going through the line he's literally picking [bleep.]
apart.
I'm like, "Dude, we have flowers and two hours.
" I mean, come on! My roommate believes that aliens live among us, so this is one of them.
And it took me about an hour.
Glenn: I wish you would've broken the color up more, though, especially when you're telling me it only took you an hour and you're happy about that.
Okay.
I'm disappointed you didn't utilize all the time that you had at your disposal.
Everyone else clearly did.
Thank you.
Anthony: I was elated when Frank got called on it.
Bit him right in the ass.
I incorporated a couple aspects of some different reptiles.
And, of course, a chameleon eye.
I'm impressed.
You clearly knew where it was going.
- Very cool.
- Thank you.
You could do anything.
You could do pretty, you could do ugly.
You could do scary, you do a monster.
This foundation challenge has big stakes.
You get immunity if you win, so of course I want to win.
So, Glenn, the winner is? Glenn: This is a tough decision.
It came down between Gage great eye, really nice balance and Tom.
You had the most creative use of the materials.
The winner is This is a tough decision, but it came down between Gage and Tom.
Frank: Tom ended up hiring Gage for his first couple of jobs, so it's really interesting to see them pit against each other.
Tom: I really want the immunity.
The last times I saw Gage's work I think I could have wiped the floor with him.
The winner is Gage.
Okay.
Gage: The moment of relief, I don't know if it came across on my face.
I was pretty dumb-founded.
Congratulations, Gage.
You have won immunity, and you are safe from elimination this week.
Gage: Tom and I, we're just getting to know each other again.
I don't want to start the whole thing off on the wrong foot by being like, "Okay, I won over you.
" All right, guys, that's it for now.
Go check out your new loft, and we will be seeing all of you tomorrow.
Frank: Getting into these lofts was really fun.
They're really cool spaces.
I'm kind of looking forward to interacting with everybody on a daily basis.
I just started jumping on beds and on couches just to drive Megan a little nuts.
This is a nice place, Frank! Sam: I'm excited and nervous and really unsure of what to expect.
Tate: I'm really tired, but I'm also really excited.
I can't wait to see what this lab is all about.
I'm out! As soon as I walk into the lab, it's literally Christmas.
I see the workspaces are great.
I see a woodshop, I see ridiculous amounts of materials all of the things that me as an independent artist don't have any access to.
Welcome to your new workplace.
Let's talk about your first Spotlight Challenge.
You're going to have to create a half-human half-animal hybrid.
But before I tell you anything else, I'd like to give you a little bit of inspiration for your creations.
First We've got a black beetle.
Beetles.
That's gross.
Your next animal is [gasping.]
an ostrich.
- Wow.
- Oh, my God.
Sergio: I've never really seen as ostrich up close.
They told us to stay three feet away and just look because he'd poke your eyes out.
I have one more little surprise for you.
- Whoa! - Yeah! Oh, my God! Anthony: They open up the gates to the place and Dumbo walks in.
- Wow! - Wow.
My hair stood up on my neck.
I was like, "A freaking elephant in the building?" This, everybody, is Susie.
Say hello to Susie.
You will be paired up in teams of two.
Your teams were drawn randomly.
Each team will need to choose an animal to incorporate into your creations.
There are three animals and two teams will use each one.
When it's your turn, you will also need to select a model, which you will be doing by selecting one of the casts of their heads off the shelf.
Jessica, Jo.
Jo is very young, and it terrifies me.
It's going to be a scary challenge.
I say if we do the ostrich, we get a girl.
I say if we do an elephant, we do a male.
I think the beetle is a no go.
Jessica: I was thinking ostrich.
Let's do her.
Jessica: We decided to pick Diana's life cast, which is the exact replica of her face, but in stone.
That's what we make all our molds off of.
So if I wanted to have a beak, I'd sculpt the beak on it out of clay.
Sergio, Gage.
When she said it was Serge, I had seen Serge's makeup.
My personal opinion of it was that it was cool.
- I'd be up for the elephant - Okay, cool.
He has a nice full face.
That's the first one I looked at.
- Cool with that one? - Yeah, yeah.
Go ahead and grab it.
[thunks twice.]
- Crack.
- Sweet.
Let's go with the ostrich.
Joy.
Okay.
Wonderful.
All right, elephant.
Maybe Jayson.
He's bigger.
Okay.
Beetle.
Which one do you want? We get the tiniest head in the bunch.
You will have have three days for this challenge.
The judges will be looking at your technique, creativity, execution, and your overall presentation.
Is everybody ready? - Yes.
- Go ahead! Come here, baby.
Stay.
Oh, you! Be careful.
Anthony: So I'm sketching it up and asking the handler a million questions.
Do they have teeth? What's inside? Is it basically just all beak? Does it run, does it fly, does it spit? Anything I could think of to help me incorporate into my design.
It's almost like a triangle.
Do we have a soldering gun? Yeah.
It's one of these things.
Oh, sweet.
Perfect.
We came up with this concept of a 1950s mad scientist that turns into an insect.
My idea was to make bug arms.
Marcel: Okay, everyone hold still.
Our concept is a giant beetle man dressed as an exterminator.
It has to be It shouldn't be just a very large beetle.
It should remind you of a humanoid.
So I'm going to sketch out mine.
You do whatever you want, and then we'll mix and match.
Sure enough.
I want to elongate the neck here.
I was thinking about that, too.
I want to make the neck as long as possible.
Megan: We're like, "Why not make this ostrich into a sophisticated women?" Dude, you got me.
We're on the page, right? I was thinking I want to do it Vegas showgirl, so it's like really high fashion.
Jo: The direction that we did decide to go in was high fashion.
It's something I don't do normally ever.
I want a lot of volume.
The first thing that comes to my mind is leaving parts of human.
A hybrid.
Human hybrid.
Human elephant man.
Elephant man.
Let's do it.
Tom: Working with Conor is an interesting predicament because we're both alpha males.
Right there.
We're just not on the same page with this.
That's what I would do.
I'm not trying to call the shots.
No, no, no, no.
I'm going to put my own flavor on it, but I'll stay within that size.
Tell you what.
Use your discretion.
Anthony: Two and a half hours in, I look over at the other ostrich, they got a full-blown beak going up off the cast.
I'm like, "Holy [bleep.]
, that looks like a duck.
" You're doing a skeleton.
It's not a skeleton.
But, I mean, do what you will.
First day in working with Jessica, I already know this is going downhill.
Let me go and try and find Sculpey.
Conor: Tom's idea was to make something that looked like it was maybe created in a lab.
Tom: I noticed theirs' from across the way now and they're doing a very, very, very similar take on what we're doing.
Once we started getting into it, we realized our competition were doing almost exactly what we were planning.
- Gotcha.
- What's up, Conor? You guys are doing the same thing we were going to do.
We're already technically behind everybody.
Yeah.
We were going to have to start from scratch.
Sergio: What's up, Conor? You guys are doing the same thing we were going to do.
Oh.
Conor: Gage and Sergio were doing almost exactly what we were planning.
So we decided to switch gears and go back to my original idea.
So change direction back to genetic mutation? No, we go back to an evolutionary That's what I mean.
Tom: Conor wanted to be the boss.
I deferred to that.
All right.
We have four hours today, nine hours tomorrow of shop work.
Is we spent our 13 hours butting heads, I know that we're not going to finish our project.
Megan: I started looking around the room.
I start getting a little intimidated.
Megan just takes her hands, grabs the beak, and rips it right off the freaking sculpture.
I was like, "Okay, I guess we're starting over then.
" The eyes If we made big, big ostrich eyes.
Yeah, and not Donald Duck.
Not Donald Duck.
Sometimes at the last minute you got to change up the game.
Jo: Why don't we do the feet out of Sculpey? I can sculpt feet.
Uh um, we only have a certain amount of time.
Yes.
Let's get done what we can get done.
All right.
All right, that's time, guys.
Let's get out of here.
- Let's go, man.
- Whoo! Word.
Jo: So, day two, we get back to the lab.
At this point we have to really pull it out.
The sculpture is slowly coming together.
The face is ready to mold.
Marcel: I sculpted the face as much as I could, and then in about an hour I go, "Let's trade.
" So she added her touches while I was sculpting arms.
I'm headed, like, blam! Put it up.
Power, heat.
I showed Tate how to use the vacuform machine.
What it is is a big frame and you put a piece of plastic in there and then it has heating elements that heat that plastic up.
You pull it down and suction it over a form to make, in our case, a plate to mount some antennas.
Sweet, man.
Tate: Me and Frank are jamming.
I love the guy.
He's talented, he's quick, he knows his [bleep.]
, and I think that the judges will honestly get a kick out of what we do.
That's it.
Making molds takes a long time.
On a stone you can replicate whatever kind of detail you want with clay.
The place where the clay is will eventually become foam latex, which is what the actor will wear.
Some of these materials, waiting for them to set up can take awhile.
- How's it going, Frank? - Just great.
I'm definitely noticing Gage is working his ass off and Sergio seems to be at a snail's pace.
How are you and Sergio doing? Well, he's finally molding the face.
Just now? He just started? Yeah, but there's still so much to do.
Knowing that I have immunity is a double-edged sword because I really want to bring it.
I want Serge to shine and I really don't want to hinder him in any way.
I'm not the person to screw someone over.
The splash coat's drying.
You should get a lot of the detail.
I realize that Serge like to take his time.
I pulled super double duty.
I was trying to keep Serge on task, trying to keep him sculpting, but at a quicker pace.
- That would be cool.
- Yeah.
Marcel: Sam and I have our sculpture done.
We have everything we need set up and we feel really comfortable with what we've done.
Frank: When I look around at everybody else's work, I have no doubt in my mind that Tate and I are going to be one of the top teams in this challenge - Oh, that's so good.
- Right? if not the winner.
And then we saw Conor's sculpture and it was beautiful, so we knew we had some competition.
Yours looks good.
Jessica: They're perfect.
That's the exact color I want to use.
Jo: I don't want to be on the chopping block because I go with someone else's idea.
I need to be more assertive, but instead of stressing her out over trying to change something, we're going to continue on what we're doing and hope for the best.
Gage: I look at the foot and it's set rock hard.
It's supposed to be soft and it's set like stone.
We didn't get the mix right.
I know right away that we can't use it.
We have to scrap the foot.
Sergio: I'm very nervous about presenting our creation to the judges.
Since Gage has immunity, if our makeup doesn't succeed, I'm the one on the chopping block.
McKenzie: Coming up Gage: Our models walk in.
There was just no time.
I'm freaking out.
Nobody wants to be the first one to go.
Really well done.
Please make me understand whose idea this was.
Sergio: It's the morning of Elimination and we're very behind.
I'm not happy with these edges.
This is going to be hard to blend out.
Sergio: We've hit some snags.
The leg piece that we were working on didn't set up right.
I think it's going to be horrible because we really needed that to balance the whole thing out.
Gage: Our models walk in to start our application process.
Sergio.
Nice to meet you.
I was really hoping to be much further along.
Are you excited? Tate: Just stand right here.
I want to see how well these fit you.
The bug arms are done.
Just push I slide them on her.
They fit perfect.
Frank, check it out.
We've got articulation.
- Oh, excellent.
- Nice.
Do me a favor.
Just lift your neck for a second.
Anthony: We took the foam latex prosthetic, fit it on her.
It fit beautifully.
The neck looked fantastic.
Great, now your character is supposed to be a poet in the 18th century in London.
Okay.
And you write your own tales about yourself and that's where fairy tales come from.
There were a couple times I'm looking at Megan and I'm just not getting what she was digging.
Your hands are together like this and it looks like mittens.
And you walk like you're a sophisticated woman, but you are an ostrich as well, so She starts doing the thing with the prance and stuff like that.
I'm thinking maybe she did runway.
Then when you stop, open up your arms.
There you go.
Wonderful.
Then what I'm going to do is give you a pen and then you just take that pen out and get the book out.
You sign.
There you go.
That's it.
First one to put the mask on.
- Put the horns up.
- Yeah.
When you have a bald cap on there, you want it to be tight.
You can go ahead and let go.
[sighs.]
Well, I end up pulling it too tight.
So we got a problem, Jessica.
I got a rip in my bald cap.
- Real bad? - Pretty bad.
Jessica: That really bothers me.
I should have done it.
That's a half hour, guys.
You got 30 minutes to do this.
Do you guys have the super glue? Thank you.
Cut the strap, cut the strap.
No, no, no.
We got it.
I think we should spend the rest of this packing.
All right.
Found it.
It was all the way in the back.
And that's time! Jessica: We pack up our kits and we head over to the stage for Last Looks.
We have one more hour to do touch-ups.
Oops, she has a bald spot.
Yeah, I'm re-darting.
Jo: I am stressing.
Jessica is on my case about this hole in the bald cap.
I'm trying to figure out anything I can do to fix it.
It's going to be messy, so we'll see how it goes.
Megan: You got the clips? Hey, everybody, I think we found our new challenger over here.
Megan and Anthony's is looking really great.
And Sergio and Gage's is looking worse and worse.
Nobody wants to be the first one to go.
There's still a lot of places to prove yourself.
I'm going to blow into your fake eyeball.
Gage: There was just no time and he still doesn't have hair def.
I'm freaking out.
You know what else we could do real quick? We can use the bandanna.
It's not looking very good for us now.
Hey, guys, we got 15 minutes left.
[muttering.]
Don't worry.
Let's get the arms on and then you won't feel anything.
Tom: As I'm painting these hands and trying to put my spin on things, my own partner is kind of covering up what I'm doing as I'm doing it.
Conor: Try something other than a paintbrush.
So now we're down to six minutes and he's putting dirt over everything I keep cleaning off and painting.
Tom: I don't want too much dust because I'm afraid it looks like we're covering everything I'm doing with dust.
I need to show what I'm doing here as well.
And he's like, "Elephants are dirty.
What do you expect?" And I'm like, "Well, your face isn't covered with dirt.
" Is there anything else? We're just panicked.
We're like, "What if they don't like it? What if they see something we don't?" It is one nightmare after another.
I've got to say, I've never made a costume like this before.
I know the hair thing doesn't make sense right now, but it will.
Brushes down our makeup looks like crap.
Welcome to the "Face Off" reveal stage.
Tonight, one of you will be eliminated.
Our judges, owner of Optic Nerve makeup effects studio, - Glenn Hetrick.
- Hey, guys.
Three-time Oscar-winning makeup artist Ve Neill.
- Hi.
- Hi, Ve.
Gage: Talk about pressure.
I'm very familiar with Ve's work.
I have Beetlejuice, a character that she helped create, tattooed on my arm.
And creature designer and director Patrick Tatopoulus.
- Hello, guys.
- Hey, Patrick.
Tate: Patrick is one of the most talented in Hollywood because he kind of transcends that barrier of effects artist and production design.
Your Spotlight Challenge this week was to create a human-animal hybrid and we cannot wait to see what you have created.
Let's get started.
Sergio: We had an unfinished product.
There was no leg to balance out the design.
I don't want to be sent home on something that's not truly mine.
Sam: It's great to see the piece done, but I'm feeling a little bit nervous.
I have no idea what to expect.
Anthony: Joy comes out and opened her arms just like Megan wanted her to.
I look over at Ve Neill, and she's nothing but smiles.
Jo: My nerves were so on edge.
I felt like vomiting all over the stage.
At this point I'm thinking I'm going to go home.
Frank: I'm really confident in how our creature turned out.
I'm not really nervous at all.
So it's just up to the judges.
Conor: I'm pretty critical about my own work, but I'm feeling pretty good.
I think we did the best we could and I think we really got a shot at winning this.
Judges, if you would like to take a closer look.
Jo: So, of course.
Why would I think that they would look at this thing from afar? They got to come up close.
We have edges, intricate paint that they're going to have to look out.
And they are going to rip me to shreds in front of America.
Judges, if you would like to take a closer look.
Jo: Of course, why would I think that they would look at this thing from afar? They gotta come up close.
Can you turn? Ve: I didn't realize he had something on his hands'til just now.
Marcel: They went into extreme detail, Ve was running her hands on seams.
And we're all, oh, wow, they're not joking.
Could you open your mouth a bit? Jessica: I'm, like, please don't turn around, 'cause you could see the bald cap.
Can you just turn your face to the side? Jessica: Ah, don't look at that.
Look somewhere else.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Move your hand.
Ve: Let's see your hands.
Conor: The judges got to see how well the prosthetic moved, how well the wrinkling actually helped sell the movement.
There's things we're just not gonna be able to get away with.
Well, the judges have scored your creations, Megan and Anthony, Sam, Marcel, you're both safe.
Would you please head back to the makeup room.
The rest of you were the best and the worst.
Now, the judges would like to take a moment to speak to each one of you about your work.
Frank and Tate, would you please step up.
You two seem pretty proud of yourselves.
You should be.
Really like this a lot.
And it looks like a lot of work in the time that you had to do it.
My one complaint with this is that the construction looks a little Darth Vader-y.
Other than that, I think it's really cool.
And it looks like you used a bunch of different materials and stuck to an idea, so well done.
- Thank you very much.
- Thanks.
It came out really great and I like the way that everything is all tied in.
I'm kind of there with Glenn about the Darth Vader helmet, but very nicely done, guys.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
I like your background.
The background tells me you worked in the direction of a '50s looking movie, and when I got truly close to it I forgot the person behind the mask and to me, that's the most important thing.
So I'm a big fan.
Good job.
- Thank you very much.
- Thanks.
Gage and Sergio, would you please take center stage.
Where were your responsibilities here? I mean, who was responsible for what? I did the sculpture on the face and the little tusk.
I took on the liberty of sculpting the arm.
The arm basically was designed to be like it was forming an elephant trunk.
We wanted to take the trunk off the face and bring it down somewhere else.
Except for the actual tusk, I don't recognize an elephant.
On the conceptual idea, it's great, you just didn't exercise it at the end, and that's a bummer.
Do both of you remember me mention the difference between asymmetry and something being lopsided? - Yeah.
- Not only did you do it to the face - But you put the arm on the same side.
Why? - Right.
I thought with the leg, it would balance him out a little more, 'cause the leg would have flared out.
And the leg went wrong because We ran polyfoam inside of the leg and is solidified really hard because it wasn't mixed right.
Guys, it's atrocious.
The hair work is hideous, the paint job's terrible, The arm is, I don't even know what the heck it is.
I can't find anything good to say about any part of this makeup.
I didn't go with my gut feelings, and so I think that I could definitely hone that and be more specific to my strong skills.
You should have implemented that on this makeup because you knew going in that he had immunity.
We can't do anything to him.
But we can certainly do something to you.
Conor, Tom, please come to the center.
So, guys, I like this.
Thank you.
When I got close to the makeup, I realized that this is a pretty thick animal form on the face.
When I asked him to move his neck, I was very impressed the way those all worked together very well with the expression of the actor.
And I think that's a big deal.
So good job.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
I agree.
How did you break down the responsibilities here? I sculpted the face, but Tom sculpted the ears, blocked out the nose, finished out the hands, gave me the trunk.
Every step of this was a collaboration.
Glenn: Very cool.
You really took the actual elephant being and put it on his hands and I think that's very cool.
Congratulations.
- Thank you very much - Thanks.
Jessica and Jo, please come forward.
What the duck happened here? Please make me understand who's idea this was.
We collaborated, I think.
We wanted to be more like Vegas showgirl meets an ostrich.
There's lots of things that I dislike gravely about this makeup, but the bald cap thing on the back That was my doing.
It was already glued onto the front.
I pulled on the back and I got a huge tear in the side.
When you guys have huge problems like that, stop what you're doing and take 5 minutes to problem solve that together.
Silly, silly mistake, 'cause one of you is possibly gonna hang for it.
I don't know what you guys were thinking when you did this but you can never put this on film.
Even for a kids' show.
Well, you would have been better off taking a swim cap and gluing feathers on it as far as I'm concerned.
I wish you had a design before you started.
It takes some time, a half an hour, an hour, but you have a good sense of where you're going.
And challenge yourself on the design.
The design is not there, this is never gonna go anywhere.
Jessica, why do you think you should stay in the competition? I think I put a lot of work into the sculpture.
The painting and the skirt, you know, I think I have a lot to offer.
I would rather hear that you understand what your mistake was.
For you to battle and defend this piece is a little more challenging, I think.
And Jo? I've a lot of ambition for this.
I have a lot to offer just learning now that you have to have and idea, you have to stick with it, and you have to go and that's something that I can do.
Do you realize now that you made a mistake? I want to shoot myself in the face in front of all of you right now.
Okay.
All right, judges, who is the winner of this challenge? The two top teams were Frank and Tate, and Conor and Tom.
The top team is Conor and Tom.
But there can only be one winner.
And that person is Conor.
Glenn, why did you pick Conor to be the winner? We felt out of that top team Conor's sculpting really helped to pull that makeup along.
Thank you.
And I was really surprised.
I actually thought we were gonna win as a team.
In the end, my effort was the one that stood out.
Conor, there's something more you should know.
Each week, the winner of the spotlight challenge will have a chance to consult with the judges as to who they think should be eliminated.
If the rest of you would please go wait in the makeup room until the judges have made the decision.
Conor, between Jo, Jessica and Sergio, who do you think did the worst job on this challenge? I'm gonna reluctantly say Jessica because she made the choice to sculpt an upper and lower beak above the mouth of the performer and that was just never gonna work.
That's a good point.
Thank you, Conor.
You can head back to the makeup room.
All right, judges.
It's time to begin your deliberation on who should be eliminated.
Let's start with Sergio.
What are your thoughts? He was quite passionate about it and I really like to hear that.
Ve: And as you said he does have the passion.
- Yeah.
- And I think he will make a comeback and show us something good.
Yeah.
I, I disagree.
There's many bad things to come from Sergio, in my opinion.
All right, what are your thoughts on Jessica? I need to feel that they're gonna do something better next time.
And in her, I felt she was giving up.
She says 'cause, well, I spent a lot of time sculpting the feet.
Well, you know what? The feet aren't on somebody's face but that goofy bill was.
So she should have completed that and at least made an attempt to make it a complete face.
It's a close one.
I mean, I think if Jo sat back and let it happen, it's just as much her fault.
- I agree.
- The only thing you can look at to say which one seems to want to fight and get to the next level? McKenzie: All right, judges.
Have you come to a decision? - I think so.
- I think so, yeah.
So, judges, who's going home tonight? So, judges, who's going home tonight? Glenn: Gage, you have immunity this week.
You better make the most of your second chance.
- Head back to the makeup room.
- Thank you.
Serge.
So far, we've seen two looks from you.
I'm not impressed, and I don't think the other judges are either.
Jessica, your decision-making skills have been severely lacking.
And Jo, if you have better skills, I don't feel like you're showing them to us.
The person going home tonight is it's Jessica.
Well, thank you for the opportunity.
I know tonight I didn't meet up to your standards.
Jessica, please head back to the makeup room - And pack up your kit.
- Thank you.
Jessica: I don't think I should be going home tonight.
I should have defended myself harder.
Runs in the family.
Everybody, come on.
I wish I could have given the world a better chance to see my talent.
But I know in my heart that I'm good and I'm gonna be out here making movies.
You know, I can do it.
I'm not afraid.
I'll be out here someday.