Face Off (2011) s03e03 Episode Script

Previously on Face Off The artists competed for a pirate treasure of their own.
$5,000.
Everybody wants to win that booty.
Sarah's inventive sea urchin pirate won her the prize.
- Oh, God.
- Ohh! - Nice.
But CC fell short and was sent home.
Now ten artists remain.
And tonight, they'll face a challenge like never before.
Oh.
If we don't get this mold out, we'll be totally screwed.
There is no way that this is gonna get done.
I do think I need to prove myself.
What the fuck? Something bad has happened.
There's a lot of blood.
On stage, the makeups are put to an unexpected test in an acrobatic dance routine.
It was quite stunning.
I see what you guys were going for-- Huge mistake.
This could go horribly wrong.
In the end, only one will win the opportunity to be a guest lecturer at Make Up For Ever's academies in New York and Paris, a new 2012 Toyota Prius V, and $100,000.
And for the first time ever, America, your voice will be heard in selecting the winner.
Only one will win Face Off.
I can't believe CC's gone.
It's a little weird that she wasn't here this morning.
CC will definitely be missed.
There is going to be an empty bed in our room and we're going to have to look at it every single day and be reminded that every challenge could be the last challenge.
At the end of the day, they were right.
I guess they could have done more with the jewels.
Jason and I were both in the bottom last challenge.
I do think I need to prove myself.
and we have no idea where we're going.
Oh, my goodness.
And then we see this beautiful temple.
Welcome to the Thien Hau temple in Chinatown.
People come here from all over the country to celebrate the Chinese new year with firecrackers, music, and my personal favorite, the amazing Chinese dragon and lion dancers.
- Oh, my God.
- Yeah! - We got a show.
- Oh, sweet.
The dragon is cool.
But at this point, okay, well, that's a giant puppet.
Like, what does that have to do with anything that we're gonna do? All right, guys, so working together in teams of two.
Yay.
Your spotlight challenge is to create a completely original take on the traditional Chinese new year dragon.
- Wow.
- Yes! I draw dragons all the time for tattoos, so I'm kind of excited.
Your creations will then be put to the test as the head of the new year's dragon while performing in an acrobatic dance on our reveal stage.
- Wow.
- Oh, yes.
This is not going to be easy.
Once your actor starts to sweat, the makeup has a super high chance of peeling off.
And we also want to give your dragons just a little extra personal touch.
Chinese dragons are influenced by various animals.
One may have the head of a camel, the eyes of a wolf, and the claws of an eagle.
So your dragons should incorporate traits of each of the team members zodiac signs into the final makeup.
All right, so your teams have been randomly selected, and they are Nicole and Rod.
Excellent.
Eric and Sarah.
Awesome.
I'm excited about working with Sarah.
She won the last challenge.
With my sculpting skills and her costuming skills, I think we can do something original.
Next team is Alana and Laura.
- Yeah, girl.
- Yeah.
Derek and Tommy.
Awesome.
We were both in the bottom the first time and we both really wanna win this time.
And I think we can do it.
Jason and Roy.
- Excellent.
- We got this.
Jason has fabricating experience like I do.
We both work in the haunted house industry and so we think that we can create something cool.
Now your sign is tied to the year you were born and we have that information right here.
But before you head back to the lab, why don't go ahead and take some photos of this beautiful temple for some inspiration and get working on your designs? Good luck, everybody.
So we have a half an hour to just look around the temple, take some reference pictures, do some sketching to come up with our concept.
The design is important because if you don't know where you're going, it's kind of hard to get there.
I'm gonna draw the bodies out so you can get an idea of where everything is.
Even though it's a boar face - Yeah, yeah.
- The dragon face We can give it that goofy, monkey type of feel.
One of the things we both key in on is doing the boar tusks and boar jaw with an underbite.
And then we wanna try and do monkey fingers and then definitely do some hair laying since they both have hair.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
For our concept, it's the face of a dragon with a bull ring out of a baboon nose.
We're just throwing elements of both of our animals back and forth and making one cohesive piece.
That's awesome! The first thing I see is a Chinese warrior, and he's got this amazing headdress.
And there's these poles coming out with flags hanging from it.
- Perfect.
I love that.
- Oh, it's amazing.
- Okay, good.
- That's good.
It's one thing to make a really cool makeup, but it has to be something that can look really pretty with movement.
I can't wait to start sculpting it.
- Start with the camera.
- Just so much I know.
This is gonna be great.
Is gonna be there to play with.
The first thing we do when we get to the lab is pick our models and get right to work.
Go, go, go, go, go, go! After we get to the lab from the temple, I start working on the sculpture for the face.
Jason decides that he wants to do the scales.
We want to take a rabbit face and give it snake skin and then do like these really long ears, and then a chest piece that's reptile.
I'm gonna start vacuum forming scales for the back piece.
The vacuform's great because it gives us a way to make copies of things.
Scales, scales-- just vacuform after vacuform.
Then I have to sit down and cut out over a hundred scales.
Alana has goat as her zodiac sign, and mine is a rat.
I think a rat and a goat together is gonna look freaking fierce.
This or that? I'm more feeling this.
We could go very theatrical, but everybody else might be doing something like that.
So we decided to go more realistic to stand out.
I haven't even started adding any of the detail but roughed out, I got dragon.
I love Chinese culture, but it's not something I bring to my aesthetic.
So this is a challenge right off the bat for me.
I think it's gonna look fucking badass.
I think it's already looking sweet.
Me and Derek just click.
He's gonna do the face and I'm gonna do the cowl.
Well, we're both working on such a same wavelength, this could be a great partnership.
I love his lips that you're making.
I wanna do the lip on the top part the same way.
Oh, okay.
Our plan is for me to start sculpting the face, and then we had this arm design that we wanna try to get done.
It's a scaly dragon arm with monkey hands.
Dude, I am not digging the scale thing.
I don't like these.
Right away, as we start doing some of the sculpting, certain things that we have in our heads just aren't laying out on the clay correctly.
It just seems like it's time consuming.
What if I start sculpting a chest piece? Sometimes, the best things can come from having to work on something different, but now we could be falling very behind.
You can do it while I fabricate the costume.
- You know what I'm thinking? - What? To have those snakes and the rats underneath the skin.
My thoughts are I don't-- You're still not vibing, are you? I'm sculpting the face, and Nicole wants to have rat tails hanging down and my mind jumped to let's incorporate-- instead of them hanging down, let's incorporate it into the design.
Wouldn't it be interesting to have rats as cheeks? In all the Chinese drawings that you see, the dragons have the flares that come and they're blowing in the wind.
And I think that would be really cool.
I really wanna do these rat tail flares and then rod sculpts the rat tail in, but he does a mustache.
And that's not at all what I was talking about.
I just don't think that he's wanting to take any of my input on this one.
We're all working very, very hard, when suddenly, out of the blue What the fuck? There's a scream.
Something bad has happened.
- Did you cut yourself? - Oh, fuck! Can I please have a medic? Alana sliced her finger really bad and there's a lot of blood.
This really, really, really hurts.
We have a face piece, a cowl, and a hoof that need to be sculpted today.
I could see in Laura's face she's worried.
Hmm.
There's no way that this is gonna get done.
Coming up If we don't get this mold out, we'll be just totally screwed.
Shit.
I see what you guys were going for.
I have a lot of problems with it.
This could go horribly wrong.
Can I have please have a medic? Something bad has happened.
This one really, really, really hurts.
Alana sliced her finger really bad and there's a lot of blood.
Dude, if you gotta sew me up, sew me up.
Let's go.
Are you serious? Do you think I really need stitches? I feel terrible for Laura.
I'm leaving this girl with a ton of work to do.
We have a face piece, a cowl, and a hoof that need to be sculpted today.
She needs to get stitches.
Yeah, go, go.
You know what, sometimes one team member has to compensate and that's okay.
So I just start speed sculpting.
My brother Derek and I obviously have the same zodiac sign.
Of course I want to do something different.
So I walk up to my brother's sculpt because I haven't gotten a chance to see his design yet.
It's getting there.
It's getting there.
I really want to kick his ass.
What do you have, ram? Boar and a monkey.
I'm gonna win definitely.
I would think it would be me but, uh I would, you know, let you hang out with me and share my glory.
That's all right.
Seven stitches.
Oh, my God, seven? Oh, yeah! This is looking great girl.
- Yeah.
- What do you want me to do? Hmm.
We have an hour left and I can't get this wet and we use water clay.
How am I gonna work? Do you want me to get those bitches on the sander so they're finished? - Oh, yeah.
Do it.
- Yeah.
At the very least I'm gonna go make these horns for us.
Seven stitches.
- Really? - Yup.
That girl's an accident waiting to happen.
Waiting? The first day, it's a little hard to kind of grasp a non-realistic makeup and more theatrical.
It takes me a little bit longer than I'd like to get it roughed out.
Making this thing even is such a pain.
We are about done with our sculpts at the end of the day, but we're not where we wanna be.
I think I'm gonna have to work on this a little bit more tomorrow.
All right, guys, time's up! Time is up! End of the day, we didn't get our sculpts finished.
I think I'm behind schedule.
We have a long day tomorrow, but I'm a little worried I'm not gonna be able to get it all done in time.
We have ten hours for day two.
Immediately we walk over to our sculptures and we start finishing up the detail.
In the beginning, me and Rod were kind of like on different paths.
Do you wanna incorporate those ears? - I like the ears.
- If there's time.
I tell him, you know what, let's sit at the same table, and just kind of feel off of each other's sculptures.
And that starts to work.
That's gonna look nice.
That's gonna look freaking amazing.
I wanna make sure that the communication is there.
We're in a good groove.
It's the second day of the challenge, we still have a good amount of fabrication left to do.
This is a ton of work.
Roy has to vacuform scales and I have to sculpt the chest piece, mold it.
This is taking a lot longer and a lot more time and materials than I thought it was going to take.
The hoof is gonna start becoming priority in the molding process because we need to start casting those up - Casting those, mm-hmm.
- And slip right away.
All of our sculptures are pretty much finished.
I really, really need to start molding.
You make a mold by putting a cement-like substance onto your sculpture.
From there you can pour in silicon or foam which will eventually become your prosthetic.
It's not like it has to be pretty.
It just has to be functional.
Hey, guys.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Here with Glenn to do a little walk-through.
We're into the day and here comes McKenzie with Glenn.
Glenn has such a good poker face, it is hard to read him.
You're working on the face, you're working on the cowl so that they match up? The thing I'm worried about is it's flaring pretty well and I don't wanna flare that.
Instead of a singular, hard line where they lay, when I have to do this I try to get the line broken up So that where the two meld, the eye doesn't go straight to the fact that there's this hard break between the two.
We sculpted the face of a rabbit and give it scales like a snake.
- So like a snabbit.
- Yes.
This is gonna be very red and black.
And this is what the ears are gonna look like - when you're done? - Yes, sir.
- I'm looking forward to seeing it.
- All right.
- Thanks.
- Good luck, guys.
Thanks, guys.
Concept-wise, this is what we're kind of going off of.
We fabricated these horns to come up through the cowl here.
We're thinking of making them shorter, considering the actors are rolling around.
You're putting a lot of trust in the fact that that little aperture and some glue is gonna hold that on.
Explain this to me.
Your two animals were what? A monkey and a ox.
One of the best ways to stand out from everyone else is to use concepts and materials that not everyone else is using.
We can only look at so many foam latex masks and hands.
Right.
So try to find other things to integrate.
- Okay.
- It's a cool design.
So, yeah, we're going with more of the boar jaw, face, nose.
Our colors are an orange, a blue, and then gold accents because we thought a lot of people wouldn't do that.
Here's the thing.
When you're going with all these stylized, theatrical concepts, my concern for you is what are you gonna do to impress us when we get up close? Theatrical makeups are great from far away.
Yeah.
But when you look at them close up, they're gonna be hard, opaque colors that fade into one another.
Try to find something else that you can go in there and detail.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
All right, thank you.
After hearing Glenn, I'm wondering if we should be doing it this way.
Sarah seems not as confident as we were before.
So we're both trying to figure out if we're going the right direction.
With everything that you've seen today, who's really thriving? Design-wise, what Alana and Laura have going on, if they can get it to where it is on paper in real life, I think they've got a strong shot at taking it this week.
But with Derek and Tommy, there's a lot of cool Chinese dragon or Asian ideas.
I wish more of them were doing something like that.
Who do you think is maybe falling a little short, at least at this stage of the game? My greatest concern is definitely with Sarah and Eric.
What I'm looking at color-wise, conceptually, and sculpturally, I don't see any-- a lot of it changing or morphing into something successful in the next 24 hours.
- Hmm.
- Hopefully I'm wrong.
Yeah.
All right, everybody.
We're heading out.
See you tomorrow, guys.
Sarah's molding the cowl piece, and I don't know what Sarah's molding skills are.
Oh, my God, this is the fucking shittiest mold I've ever fucking made.
This is fucking ridiculous.
What you did is-- Yeah, the weight pushed it down.
Because look at all this.
Like, all this is crap man.
I'm so sorry, Eric.
We're starting to open the mold and it stuck.
It's a little nerve-wracking, opening up a mold.
You just don't know if it's gonna open easy or break while trying to get it pried open.
This part's cracking.
It's too thin.
Oh, I didn't make it thick enough? If we don't get this mold out, we'll be just totally screwed.
Shit.
I am not letting you down.
Rod is so cute.
He runs circles around all of us.
There is no time to waste with Mr.
Rod Maxwell.
He's fast, man.
I've not seen him walk, I don't think, actually.
Being on the show is like training for a marathon.
Something that would typically take you a month to do, you're asked to do in no time.
So, if it takes a little running, I'm running to get there.
Oh, my God, this is the fucking shittiest mold I've ever fucking made.
I'm so sorry, Eric.
If we don't get this mold out, we'll be just totally screwed.
We're starting to open the mold and it's stuck.
It's a little nerve-wracking, opening up a mold.
You just don't know if it's gonna break while you're trying to get it pried open.
Ugh! Okay.
So we pull all that clay out really fast and luckily You know, the stuff that needs to be nice is gonna be nice.
Everything comes out perfect.
Uh, I'm gonna take this outside.
Okay.
I know we have a lot of work to do.
So I'm thinking instead of sculpting and molding these hooves, let's sculpt and vacuform them.
That way we'll be able to bust them out super fast.
All right, ready.
It's like an easy bake oven for crazy people.
I think this is gonna be good.
Yeah, let's do that.
Alana's got two hooves out.
However she definitely wants this creature to have four legs.
Really, if I spend like 30 minutes on the hooves, finishing them, while you're getting the weight capped down and prepping them all-- So you want me to do the application while you apply these? I had to say, "I don't think we're gonna have enough time for those.
Let's concentrate on something else.
" I know, I just feel like we have so much done and we only have two pieces to lay down tomorrow.
It's five hours.
It's just-- It's just a risk, you know.
I don't think it is.
I just really don't-- All right.
Well My gut is telling me to keep going.
If you wanna continue.
We got it, girl.
Don't worry.
There's a lot to do still, so all I'm thinking about is time.
How quickly can we do this? Do you have a system going on, or do you mind if I just jump right in? Just jump in.
Rod has a very specific way of how he likes to mold, but I don't think it really works for a time constraint.
You know, you could just like dip the burlap and just slap it.
That's a way to do it.
Right now there's no reason for panic.
Actually just take-- Just run down there and back just fast as you can.
We are doing the most work out of any team by trying to tackle the entire costume.
This survives the roll, I think we're good.
I think it will.
So we're hoping that that gets us some brownie points.
No-- Ian, note to self No more scales on projects ever again.
So I get all four hooves done.
They're all finished by the end of the day.
But Laura only paints two of them and the other two are just hanging out.
I'm not okay with that, I'm not.
Going into application day, if we're not on the same page this is gonna be a disaster.
All right.
That's time, everybody.
Good job today.
It's application day, and we have four hours in the lab to get everything done on our model.
And we still got a lot of things to do.
Jason starts doing the paint job.
And I see it and I'm not happy.
There's all these little black dots like he has a bad case of black acne.
I'm thinking though, okay, if we're on bottom, hopefully it's for the paint job.
Because I can honestly say, without throwing him him under the bus, I had nothing to do with the paint job.
And so I decided not to even touch it and let that be his cross to bear.
- Hi.
- Hey! Good morning, girl.
Oh, no.
I'm laying down the cowl, and as I'm putting it on, our cowl rips in half.
- Did it rip? - Mm-hmm.
It breaks.
A big gaping hole in the back of the head.
Can you start working on that patch? I just feel like if we don't patch it, it's just gonna keep ripping throughout her dance.
It's just gonna keep coming undone.
That's okay.
We're gonna cover it in hair and hopefully, it doesn't rip during the dance.
What do you have as the flag? The-the green-- The flowy green stuff that's-- that I made her fan out of.
Okay.
I'm going as fast as I can and this is a lot to do in this four hours.
Are you seeing anything you don't like? No, that's good.
That's good.
- We'll keep-keep going.
- Okay.
We wanna make sure that the wires that are gonna hold the flags are in place.
Haven't experimented with this yet.
I say we should bring some of this color up, though.
'Cause this is, like, standing alone.
Derek starts painting the face piece and I'm gonna focus on painting the cowl.
- Is this cool? - Yup.
- Yeah? Really? - Okay.
It's a huge risk to have two different paint jobs on two different pieces if they're coming together.
You're just really counting on each other to pull it together.
This could go horribly wrong.
- You like that color or no? - I don't know.
The orange we have is looking way too orange.
It's too bright and we wanted it to be more dull and brown.
We're a little worried about that.
So I'm just focusing on the face, trying to get the color down.
We got 20 minutes.
Is that gonna be too much of a temperance for you or-- We all have our fabrication that we're doing.
We're running out of time to apply the facial appliance.
It is extremely risky to wait till last looks to do your appliance.
To me, a last look should be just for touch-ups.
It's time, guys.
It's time.
- Let's go! - Let's go! But I don't have that option right now.
Ooh! I got so many things that have to get done.
That last hour at last looks is gonna kill me.
Coming up It's time to put your makeups to the test in an acrobatic performance.
- I'm freaking out.
- I don't see the dragon.
It's one of the strongest collaborations I've seen on this show.
So we have one hour for last looks and I'm running out of time.
We still need to put on the face prosthetic.
It is extremely risky to wait till last looks to do your appliance.
And that is gonna be very wobbly.
I'm not getting too much positive reinforcement from Sarah, so I'm thinking she's not really feeling it.
So I'm not confident with what I'm doing.
Okay, so this is coming up back here.
We're both working together to do details.
I'm like, "Nicole, go for it.
Do the makeup.
" One minute, everybody.
Let's see how this all comes together.
That's time.
We walk out on stage and the whole place has been decked out with lanterns.
We have been transported to a new world.
Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
Tonight, one of you will be eliminated.
First, let's say hello to your judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Makeup Effects Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
- Hello.
- Hey.
Three-time Oscar-winning makeup artist, Ve Neill.
- Hi, guys.
- Hey.
Creature and concept designer, Neville Page.
Hi, guys.
Hello.
This week your spotlight challenge was to work in teams to create an original take on the traditional Chinese new year's dragon.
We also told you that your makeups would be tested here on our reveal stage in an acrobatic performance.
But before we put them to the test, let's just see what you've come up with.
First up is Alana and Laura.
That fact the ours does look so different-- So much less Chinese than everybody else-- It could help or hinder us.
I'm feeling pretty good.
I love those tassels on the end.
Every time she moves, those tassels are going.
We budgeted our time and we executed it as well as I think we could have.
I'm all smiles.
That guy looks awesome.
I'm not 100% on the paint job.
That's the one thing I'm really worried about.
But everything else-- I love how the tusks look.
After we put the contacts in, it looks pretty cool.
Overall, I really like it.
But I'm worried about the paint job that Jason's done.
Okay, everybody.
It's time to put your makeups to the test.
They've got this dance stage set up and all of these different dragons are like circling around each other.
Everybody's a little nervous.
I'm so excited to see them dance and, like, do all their crazy stuff with this on, and I'm really hoping that nothing falls off.
Awesome! Wow! Oh, my God! Once the music ended, I was like "Whoo.
Okay.
" And everything held up.
We did good.
Okay, let's see how well each of your dragons held up.
Judges, why don't you take a closer look? From far away, it looks like our makeups held up during the dance routine, but we have a rip this big in the back of our cowl.
I'm freaking out.
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We have a rip this big in the back of our cowl.
I hope they don't see it.
The sculpt is a little haggard but the forms are there.
Oh, yeah.
There's like rats crawling up the side of the - Ooh, shit.
- Feisty.
Yeah.
Actually in profile, it's just badass.
It's definitely dragony.
That's a good word, interesting.
Yeah.
Interesting.
The horns were something I thought of last minute.
So it's something that I'm a little worried about.
Yeah.
All right, well, the judges would like to speak with each of you to learn more about your work.
Rod and Nicole.
Glenn, why don't we start with you? Why don't you begin by explaining to us what the astrological symbols were that you had to integrate into your dragon? Snake and rat.
The characters got sculpted into the muscle structure.
I liked that right away when I saw the sculpture that you had, like, rats and snakes on a dragon face.
I also would have to applaud the fact that you added these wavy flag banner things to the top of the head.
It looks cool.
It breaks the form up.
It does give it an Asian flair, and it shows you were thinking about the movement.
Yours is the one that really says "Chinese" to me.
I really think you did a great job of integrating your Chinese birth signs into this makeup.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I'm torn with this one, because I think you have a really creative core concept, but I don't see the dragon.
Thank you very much.
You can both step back.
Jason, Roy.
Guys, tell me which astrological signs.
I mean, I can get the snake.
Your other one was the - A rabbit.
- Rabbit, right? And who did what in this collaboration? I sculpted the, uh, face prosthetic and made the cowl area here.
And I sculpted the chest and hands.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with this physically.
I'm just not really happy with this red and black paint job on the snake-like face.
It's distracting to see all those black spots in there.
I just thought it would add more of a theatrical effect.
Okay.
Can you bare your chest for us? - It's-- - That's cool.
That does so much more than this costume piece.
Not having the chest out was a huge mistake.
You know, when you do that much work, you got to show it.
Also to me, this would have been the easiest one to turn into a dragon.
Really wish you would have elongated the face and brought the skull structure closer to a dragon's.
Jason, Roy, thank you very much.
You can step back.
Alana and Laura.
Tell us about your birth signs that influenced this.
- Well, I am a rat.
- I'm a goat.
We kind of homogenized the two together.
Who did what exactly? I sculpted the face.
Alana did the horns, hands, and headed up the paint scheme for the face.
I really love the vibe of this one.
I do like the fact that you've got a little bit of muck, adding a little bit of weathering helps to give it a little bit more character as well.
What I see here is very successful in its persistence of vision.
It looks like a sketch.
I think that's awesome when you can really stick with a design and see it all the way to the end.
I'm really happy with this one.
Thank you.
Alana, Laura, thank you so much.
You can head back.
Thank you, guys.
Eric and Sarah.
Start off by reminding us which birth symbols are in your design.
I am the monkey.
And I have the boar.
I see what you guys were going for.
I have a lot of problems with it.
There's a lot of unintentional asymmetry.
I love asymmetry but it has to look to me like it was put there on purpose, not because you couldn't get things straight.
And I think there's a lot of elements in this sculpt that are pretty neat, but if I would have made those horns, I would have just said "oh, screw it.
This guy is not gonna have horns.
" 'Cause that's just too nasty.
- Who did the horns? - I-- At the last minute.
I painted them.
Did you really think that that was gonna fly, those horns? I didn't get a chance to double look at them.
'Cause we were rushing to get it over here, so-- - But you made them.
You had to have looked at them.
Who did most of the painting on the face? Eric did most of it, and I did some of the blue work and things and he finished detailing it while I continued working on costume stuff.
It is actually the details that I have a problem with and the lack thereof.
We've got really blocky, solid color on a blocky, solid sculpture.
- Yeah.
- And that spells trouble for me.
Thank you both.
You can step back.
All right.
Derek, Tommy.
Okay, guys.
What were your astrological critters? - I'm an ox.
- I'm a monkey.
Who did what in this makeup? This is Derek's baby from the beginning and I just totally jumped onboard so I designed the costume.
I followed his lead.
Let's talk about the head.
Face and cowl-- Two separate people? Yes.
I sculpted the face And from here back-- And painted it and he painted and sculpted the cowl.
I think it's one of the strongest collaborations I've seen on this show.
There is no disparate difference between what you did and what you did.
You worked really well as a team.
Thank you.
I love the color combinations that you did on this.
It was quite stunning when he first came out and the lights came on.
I also feel that it has a Japanese aesthetic as well.
And I don't know if that's intentional.
I'm a tattoo artist and a lot of stuff I draw - is Japanese-style.
- That's awesome.
That seems to me like it's transcending what it is that we asked you to do.
I'm pretty thrilled with this thing.
Thanks.
Derek and Tommy, thank you so much.
You can step back.
- Thank you, guys.
- Thank you.
All right, well, the judges have heard what you have to say.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room while they make their decisions.
All right, judges, let's talk about the top looks.
Let's start with Rod and Nicole.
- What are your thoughts there? - They did everything right.
They had the little flag-type things, the fan.
They were really successful in getting aspects of the Chinese traditional new year's dragon.
It's my favorite from the standpoint of it's a cool concept.
Alana and Laura, what are your thoughts there? That's probably my favorite.
You know, I could see this thing in a pretty cool indie film.
- It's definitely a cool makeup.
- It is.
There's just nothing about a Chinese dragon there.
All right.
Derek and Tommy.
I love that splash of color using a mandrill's snout.
Yeah.
The costume was so spectacular.
When he moved, it was very flamboyant.
The question that we have to answer amongst ourselves is which is more important to us in this week's challenge-- The team that came up with something that more closely echoed a traditional dragon design, or the team that came up with a more successful and complete makeup? - Yeah.
- Tough one.
Why don't we talk about some of the looks you liked least this week.
Jason and Roy.
If they would have painted it green and not chosen that red Yes.
That would have been a dragon.
- The red was a horrible choice.
- And the dalmatian spots - Yeah, that-- - Did not help.
Yeah.
A lot of bad choices within the challenge.
Yeah.
An easy save would have been the color.
Let's move on to Sarah and Eric then.
The horns were unacceptable.
How could you not know how bad they were? I would have just not put the bloody things on.
At least if they would have done a cool paint job and done the hair darker so it wasn't bright orange, it could have been made to look really, really cool.
Great, judges.
Have you made your decisions? I think we have.
Let's bring them back out.
Okay, Glenn, tell us about the top looks.
This week, there's only one team that we felt actually met the criteria of the challenge.
The top team tonight is All right, Glenn, so why don't you tell us about the top teams tonight? This week, there's only one team that we felt actually met the criteria of the challenge.
The top team tonight is Tommy and Derek.
Congrats, bro.
Derek and Tommy, congratulations.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
But as you know, we can only have one winner tonight.
Glenn.
Our winner of this evening is Derek.
Yay, Derek.
- Thank you.
- Good job, buddy.
Thank you.
Although you both did a really good job, we felt that your familiarity with a specific Asian design aesthetic is what allowed you guys to do what we're asking for in this challenge.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Derek, congratulations.
You and Tommy can head back to the makeup room.
- See you, guys.
- Thank you, guys.
- Thank you so much.
- See you, guys.
It feels good to win, but my brother's still out there and I'm kind of worried for him.
All right, Glenn, why don't you tell us about the bottom looks? We felt that there was one team that really missed the mark in trying to meet the parameters of this week's challenge.
The bottom team is Eric and Sarah.
All right, so that means the rest of you are safe tonight and can head back to the makeup room.
Eric and Sarah, step to the center.
All right, so Glenn, who is leaving us tonight? The person going home this evening is Eric.
Ultimately, we felt that it was your concept, sculpture, and paint job that lead to the failure of this makeup.
Eric, I'm sorry but you have been eliminated.
Sarah, that means you are safe this week.
Will you please head back to the makeup room? It's okay.
You know you're talented, we know you're talented, so all the best of luck to you.
Thank you.
Eric, it has been great having you here with us.
Please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
Thanks, guys.
- Good luck.
- Thank you.
- Take care.
- Good luck.
- I'm going home.
- Oh.
- Oh, man.
- Yup.
The most disappointing thing about going home right now is not getting to show my best work.
I can't enjoy my win now.
That sucks.
Last looks with Derek.
Last looks with Derek.
I definitely don't think this is the end for me.
Face Off has made me more confident because there's so many things I did on this show that I've never done before.
Derek just better step up and keep going for me and for us.