Face Off (2011) s03e08 Episode Script
Who's The New Who?
Previously on Face Off In a monster-sized twist, the eliminated contestants return for a shot at redemption.
And Nicole fought her way back into the competition.
Oh, my God.
In the spotlight challenge, Laura's makeup took her to the top.
And Rod was sent home.
Now only six artists remain.
Tonight they will reinvent characters from a legendary artist.
Your challenge this week is based on a true classic.
Awesome! And get judged by a titan of Tinsel Town.
Oh, my God! This is the biggest person we've ever had on Face Off.
Dude, I'm just not a happy camper.
This will be the one that sends me home.
I have a lot to prove because I got pulled back from the dead.
I'm just, like, totally in turmoil.
I feel like such an idiot.
Your paint application is a morbid failure.
Something about this makes me smile.
In the end, only one will win the opportunity to be a guest lecturer at Makeup Forever'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 wake up in the morning and I just feel horrible.
I'm bummed to go into this day without having Rod around.
Morning! Girl.
What's up? Alana's really sad.
Her best friend Rod is gone.
I'm concerned about her.
It just tore me up, you know? Yeah.
I think that without Rod, she's really confused on how she's gonna do this and it's all up to her now.
Come on, get up.
Let's go! I don't wanna get up yet.
Get up, sleepyhead! Let's go to work! I'm just feeling a little sour apples.
I miss my friend.
We are on the Universal back lot.
Which is so awesome, I've never been here before.
Oh, cool! We come walking around the corner and there's snow on the ground.
Okay, so what is this place? I'm freaking out with excitement because this is where movie magic happens.
There's these two cars.
There's these crazy houses with snow all over them.
And there's McKenzie.
Welcome to the set of Whoville, on the Universal Studios backlit.
- Awesome! - Oh, my gosh.
This is one of the many elaborate sets used in the film, How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
So for generations the rhythmic words and imaginative characters of Dr.
Seuss have been adapted into numerous TV shows, musicals and films.
Including The Cat In The Hat and The Lorax.
So in honor of its 50th anniversary, your challenge this week is based on a true classic.
Dr.
Seuss's Sleep Book.
- That's cool.
- Yeah! - Whoo! - Yeah.
- Whoo! - I'm excited.
Dr.
Seuss's Sleep Book is about how they go to sleep.
It's just a really good bedtime story.
Dr.
Seuss had a knack for making creatures that have an almost human-like quality to them.
With that in mind, your spotlight challenge is to select a character from the Sleep Book and use it to inspire an original human-hybrid makeup that captures the essence of Dr.
Seuss.
- Awesome.
- I love Dr.
Seuss.
I can't think of any other artist that has such a definitive style.
So right now I would like to introduce a very special guest who definitely knows a thing or two about making a classic character.
He's an academy award-winning producer for A Beautiful Mind, has been nominated for Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon and Splash, which he also co-wrote.
In total, he has produced over 100 films.
Wow.
Please welcome Mr.
Brian Grazer.
Yay! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my God! Brian Grazer.
He's won an Oscar.
Wow.
This is probably the biggest person we've ever had in Face Off history.
Hi.
Thank you so much for being here.
Thanks for having me.
You have made so many great films, including Dr.
Seuss's The Cat In The Hat, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
So tell us, how were you able to make it so successful? To take Dr.
Seuss's imaginative characters from the page and then translate it to a screen? Well, you want to feel the reality and the truth of the actor.
And so to do that the makeup has to feel seamless and real so that you're not distracted by makeup that feels in any way artificial.
Brian gives us some great advice, 'cause as a producer he has to look at all makeup's and pretty much every aspect of the films that he works on.
So he's somebody at you want to listen to.
Okay, so what you guys don't know is that Brian is not just a guest here today, he's actually going to be joining us on the reveal stage to take a look at your final creations.
Oh, wow.
All right, so displayed behind me are the names of eight characters from Dr.
Seuss's Sleep Book.
Each of you will get to select one from which to base your designs on.
Nicole, you get to pick first.
I really just like the sound of Bumble-Tub.
So I grabbed Bumble-Tub.
Ian and I always go, "Oof! Oof!" - There you go.
- So Oof! I don't know what Alana's thinking.
She picks the only one up there that has nothing recognizable about it.
'Cause that's something that her and her boyfriend say, that's not a good enough reason to pick a character for makeup.
Chippendale Mupp.
Foona-Lagoona Baboona.
The Hinkle-Horn Honker.
I think it just sounds kind of fun.
I don't know what it's gonna be.
Last but not least.
Snorter McPhail's still on the board and that's the one I pick.
So, cool, I'm excited to see what this character looks like.
All right, guys, it is time to get started on your designs so grab a sketchpad and get started.
I will see you all soon.
The challenge is to not only create a Seuss character, but it has to be a human-hybrid character.
So the first thing obviously is I need to figure out what my character looks like.
I find out the Hinkle-Horn Honkers are these little yellow guys with crazy hair, in beds, and they are horn players.
I really like that they've got long noses, big smiles, and I can do some really fun hair work.
I'm looking through the book and Snorter McPhail is a conductor of snores that make music.
He has long ears, so my idea is to do a hairstyle with the hair long like the ears.
And the nose, I'm gonna make kind of like the Who nose but more human-looking.
But still have that pointy upward look to it.
My character is Bumble-Tub.
He sits in this little crate and he floats down the river with his sleep crew.
So there's Sleepy.
I'm sketching curly-Q's on his head.
And then I want them to be big.
I wanna have this big belly, these crazy fingers, and lots of curly stuff.
I'm not really sure how I'm gonna do this, but it looks cool on paper.
I'm flipping through the book and I'm flipping, I'm flipping.
I finally find my character.
And it looks like a cotton ball puff monster.
There's really no detail at all.
It doesn't look like any animal.
Everyone else has characters that resemble a dog or a dragon or a chimp.
And I got this cotton ball monster.
I got the Foona-Lagoona-Baboona.
This is the picture and I'm basically just thinking, like, chimp that's swinging from tree to tree.
I decided to go with my character-- more human, more realistic ape.
'Cause a human-hybrid with Dr.
Seuss could be, like, what the Grinch looks like.
Or it can be more human than the Grinch.
So that's where my concept's going.
Oh, your character looks cool.
Mine has a giant tail.
My character is the Chippendale Mupp and he'll bite his tail right before he goes to sleep and then about eight or nine hours later, he'll wake up again and go, "ow!" It's either gonna look cartoony or really, really weird.
Everybody's doing amazing stuff so it's gonna be hard.
It's anybody's game, I think.
We get back to the lab and choose our models.
Immediately start sculpting.
I'm trying to get the nose to look more human and make it look real.
Oh, God.
- How would you do this bitch? - Uh I'm miserable.
I have no feeling of inspiration from this particular character.
I don't want to do a big fur suit.
I just don't want to say anything and then the judges not like it, you know? I know, I just want your advice.
I'm not gonna be saying it-- 'Cause really I'm just so lost.
You're really good at this stuff.
I'm lost.
I think Alana is worried about going home.
I'm thinking about doing, like, a chubby girl.
Big head with this tail on the top.
You could do that.
It doesn't seem like she has a clue what she's gonna do.
Thank you.
I mean, I-- honestly, I mean-- I don't know.
- Hi.
- What? - Hi.
- Hello? - Huh? - Hey.
Since Nicole's been back we've really started connecting.
She's a really cool chick.
I'm just glad I'm getting to know her better.
- This is fun.
- Mm-hm.
I like this one.
I'm taking what Brian Grazer said and I'm using my model and I'm going with the forms of his face.
And I'm sculpting that out.
It's really looking like something that would happen naturally.
If he was turning into a Seuss character.
You having fun, Laura? My concept for the Chippendale Mupp human-hybrid it's a mix of interesting genres.
And I thought, oh! Dr.
Moreau.
Dr.
Seuss.
That might be cool.
A little realistic Dr.
Moreau route while still keeping to the Dr.
Seuss world.
Can I ask you what you're doing for your costume? - I am doing-- - Are you making him furry? This.
Yeah.
Yours is more like a pajamas, huh? He is kind of but I don't know if I want him in pajamas.
Pajamas would be cute.
'Cause this is a whole sleepy, bedtime book.
Good idea.
Good.
You're right.
You know? - Hey, Roy.
- I'm just not a happy camper.
I'm trying to make sure it doesn't look like the Grinch but I can't really remember what the Grinch looks like either.
And that's looking more and more like the Grinch.
- Really? - Yeah.
Hold on, I'm trying to figure it out.
This will be the one that sends me home because it has a big, Grinchy grin on it.
I see everybody knowing what direction they want to take, getting inspired.
How's it coming? I'm just, like, totally in turmoil right now.
I just wanna cry my eyes out.
I feel like such an idiot.
I don't know how to make this work.
I just want to do a great makeup and it's, like, this huge chicken with a mask on.
That's, like, the number one thing.
- Alana, Alana-- - I, like, never want to do now.
I'm going home.
Like, I'm just so freakin' defeated right now.
Coming up I'm gonna paint it mustardy yellow and then hints of brown.
But we're back into that fun fur zone, which is unfortunate.
Please welcome Oscar-winning producer, Brian Grazer.
I don't feel the Seussian heartbeat.
Something about this makes me smile.
Today is the first day of our Dr.
Seuss challenge.
And I'm a mess right now.
I just want to do a great makeup-- - But here's-- listen.
- And it's, like, this huge - Okay.
- chicken.
Take a deep breath.
Use what you like to do, which is use the person's face, right? Use that.
I'm still feeling like I'm in trouble, but I don't feel alone.
Give me a Sarah hug.
- That is too cool.
- Why, thank you.
It's looking more and more like the Grinch.
I gotta change it.
I don't think it looks anything like the Grinch.
Especially the eyes and everything.
The most important part is the face.
So hearing Nicole say that gives me a lot of encouragement.
What you making with the wire? - I wanna make his wand.
- Ah.
Kind of all swirly like Dr.
Seuss.
I'm gonna do some fabrication 'cause I want to get my makeup detailed as much as possible.
I want to do a huge belly.
So it can be, like, a human belly but in the shape of a Dr.
Seuss character.
Five minutes.
By the end of the day, I'm actually in pretty good shape.
'Cause I've got my face sculpted and I actually have my body halfway sculpted.
So tomorrow I'll just be making the mold.
All right, that's it.
Let's go home.
I really have so much work to do tomorrow.
So I really need to keep my eyes on the prize here and stay focused.
Good luck.
It's day two, I've got ten hours.
In this challenge I have to be top or, better yet, win.
And I cannot be bottom.
If I'm bottom, I might as well leave.
I'm definitely going for a more realistic sculpt.
So I find pictures of primates.
I'm gonna try to combine it with the nose of a lion and do the mouth of an older person.
So this creature's just a hodgepodge of many different elements.
- Need help with that? - Yeah.
Come on, then.
Great.
So this torso belly is a really big piece.
I mean, I've got 250 pounds of wet clay on it.
Got a lot of clay.
This is a gigantic mold.
This thing is gonna be a nightmare.
We need, like, a little mold gnome.
All right, give me your gnome.
It's time to mold.
I'm still not sure how to color the hair.
The character in the book is yellow, but I see that a lot of people are going for yellow.
So I definitely want my character to look different than anybody else's.
- Hello, everybody.
- Hi, guys.
I have Ve with me.
We're gonna come do a little walkthrough.
So I see Ve and I'm, like, "I really don't want to let you down.
Please say that I'm going in the right direction.
" Oh, my gosh, Ve.
Are you okay? What's going on? Look at that.
Oh, my gosh.
What am I gonna do? It's called an Offt.
So I'm gonna do a yellowy flesh tone.
Mm-hm.
And I really want it to be a girl.
But I'm so lost here.
This is very masculine.
And I know she's supposed to be, like, a little fluffy but I wouldn't put too many chins.
If you're going for a little girl, this is not gonna work for you.
Okay.
Is there a reason why you wanna go with silicone as opposed to foam? I want it to have that human flesh look to it.
'Cause it's supposed to be a human-hybrid.
It's kind of heavy.
That's what I'm worried about though.
So that's why I'm asking for a little advice here.
Which way would you go? Would you go foam or silicone? I would go back to foam personally.
- I dig your wig.
- I know.
I love that.
That is really cool.
- So instead of the ears-- - Mm-hm.
I want to incorporate the hairstyle.
Oh, look at the hair, that's-- So it's more of a human-hybrid kind of a thing.
- That's a cute idea.
- Smart.
What's his wardrobe? All this is gonna be fur and I'm gonna paint it mustardy-yellow and then hints of brown.
But we're back into that fun fur zone which is kind of unfortunate.
Fun fur is cheap-looking, costume-y fur material that doesn't look professional enough.
I know Glenn does not like fun fur and I'm worried about it, but my guy's gonna be in fun fur.
So I have the Hinkle-Horn Honker and he's yellows and greens with plum.
Everybody has yellow creatures this week.
- I know.
- Yes.
It's gonna be pretty interesting.
I'm hoping his hair is the yellow-est part of him.
And the rest is gonna be a little more flesh-esque.
Okay.
So Derek, he had the Snorter McPhail.
I do like the idea of the hair, then using it as the ears.
I love that.
Using that as ears.
- That, to me is-- - Yeah.
Adding in that Dr.
Seuss quality with a human aspect.
- Yeah, it will be great.
- So let's move on to Sarah's then.
I didn't really think a lot of the sculpture.
Right.
I think the sculpture was kind of weak.
We'll have to see how that one comes together.
Exactly.
So let's move on to Alana.
I'm concerned it's not gonna be a sweet little girl, if that's what she's going for.
Right.
And plus she's got the big ball for a suit again.
So that's kind of a worry for me.
- Yeah.
- I don't know.
Sarah and Alana are kind of my concerns right now.
The two that you're concerned about? - I can't wait for tomorrow.
- Me neither.
All right, gang, we're heading out.
- It's looking good.
- Bye, everybody.
- Bye.
- Good luck.
Thank you.
Ve's not down with my character and I'm just freaking out.
So I have to re-sculpt the face.
The cowl's not finished yet.
So I need to get it together and keep moving or else I'm gonna go home.
At this point I've pretty much got everything done that I needed to get done.
I wish I could listen to music or something.
I don't know what to do, I'm just bored.
I decide that I'm going to fabricate a horn.
I take some armature wire and foam tube and wrap it around this armature wire.
Spray paint everything.
I'm enjoying what it looks like.
Hey, Roy.
I'm now left with hardly any time at all before the end of the day, and my mold is not popped.
I'm getting really nervous.
Heat is what's gonna cure this mold faster.
So I'm throwing garbage bags over it.
Bringing two hair dryers up to it and I'm trying to create this heat bubble.
Time's running out and if this mold is not cast for tomorrow's application, I'm not gonna have anything here.
It's gonna be a nightmare.
Hey, Roy.
I don't know if I can crack this.
I'm now left with hardly any time at all before the end of the day and my md is not popped.
That there needs to dry some more.
I'm totally in turmoil.
I'm having such a hard time coming up with a concept.
But now I'm not even gonna have a cowl and that's the whole thing that even inspired me even a little bit on this makeup.
I got all the hair laid up where I want it.
The swirls are turning out really well.
- Looks cool.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- I super-respect Derek.
I think he's awesome.
So for him to come over and be, like, "dude," was awesome.
It, like, felt really good.
Originally I was gonna make, like, a fur hood to put overtop of the cowl.
But I'm running out of time.
I've opted to just lay the hair by hand.
We have six minutes.
Time is running out and my mold is not popped.
If this is gonna get done, it needs to get done right now.
Do it carefully.
Carefully.
Very carefully.
- He's coming.
- There we go.
So we all start going to town, picking the clay out of this mold.
Just slip it right out.
Get those little guys or you won't have your little bumps.
Let's take it outside and we'll clean it out there.
Oh, I could cry.
I love you guys so much.
A minute, 17.
All right.
This side's done.
Thank you.
- That's time, everybody.
- Thank you so much, dude.
Oh, man, what a day.
It's application day.
We have four hours to apply and then one hour of last looks at the stage.
Application day is really the make or break day for any of these makeup's.
'Cause I've heard the judges say 1,000 times, "you can save a bad prosthetic with a good makeup.
You can also destroy a good prosthetic with a bad makeup.
" I'm ecstatic.
My foam came out amazing.
At this point it's all a matter of time management and to do all of the details.
Hee-hee-hee.
Good morning.
That's your costume.
You're a conductor of a snoring band.
Oh, cool.
- I got a big noggin, huh? - You got a big ol' noggin.
Lay your head back.
Immediately I start applying the prosthetic on the model.
I'm taking my time.
It's not a big piece.
Trying to get the edges really clean.
I definitely think I have a shot at winning this one.
I think I have a strong concept.
But I'm also kind of worried.
Did I do too little? How does that feel, mama? I get my pieces and my edges are, like, thick wedges.
And on top of this, I still don't even know how or what I'm painting here.
I can't use the same paint techniques I've been using.
I need to challenge myself and do something new.
I'm a fighter.
I'm not rolling over and dying in this competition, I need to keep pushing.
I don't like this poofy right here.
With that fun fur on I'm, like, "this is so bright yellow.
" You're gonna look like a frickin' chicken.
I'm really, like, not liking this color.
Oh, lord.
You're fluffy today.
The gloves are taken care of.
The feet are taken care of.
I just need to work on the cowl and the face.
So having all this time to just focus on blending and airbrushing and detail work I'm excited.
I love this.
Everything is going pretty smooth for me here in applications.
For some reason I just had this idea to put some purple in with the pink.
I thought that along with the yellow pajama suit would pull everything together.
One foot at a time, I guess.
I'm gonna have you put your head forward.
I'm gonna put the wig on real quick and see what it looks like.
I feel like I'm in a pretty good place.
I'm happy with what I'm coming up with.
I think he's looking cool.
This one piece is not gonna work.
It's way too tight.
Turn for me.
If I have to I'll cut it off at the zipper at last looks.
Make it like a Grinch Christmas suit.
I decided to go with human hair and I'm liking the way this is turning out.
That's time! Time! Now that everything's done I'm looking around and thinking, "oh, wow, there's a lot of color.
" I'm wishing I had put color somewhere else on him rather than just the hair.
So this could either go really good or really bad.
Coming up I have a giant chicken I have to make not look like a chicken.
You're freaking me out.
I don't feel a Seussian heartbeat living inside of this.
That's just tragic.
This makeup could be sending me home.
My model's sitting in his suit and I get his face on and he's starting to fall asleep.
And it's kind of hilarious.
He's in this fat suit and he's got this little greeny face, it's happy, and he's sleeping.
And he's just like away and he is living Bumble-Tub right now.
he wakes up.
You're killing me.
So we get the last looks, we have an hour left to apply everything else that's needed.
This last hour is really important to this because I have a giant chicken I have to make not look like a chicken.
I'm still slightly unsure about my paintjob.
I'm wondering if I should still pop in some of that color.
God, that's creepy as hell.
The edges of my prosthetic around the mouth are lifting.
I am pretty worried.
It is tough getting those edges to look flawless.
If it's not blended out, you're gonna see it.
I'm gonna keep painting you until the last second.
Come on over here, girl.
Guys, that's time! That's it.
Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
Tonight one of you will be eliminated.
Say hello to your judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Makeup Effects Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
- Good evening.
- Evening.
Three time Oscar-winning makeup artist, Ve Neill.
- Hi, everybody.
- Hi, ve.
Creature and concept designer, Neville Page.
Hello.
And please welcome back our very special guest judge this week, Oscar and Emmy-winning producer, Brian Grazer.
Whoo! Thank you.
Thanks for having me.
All right, guys, so this week your spotlight challenge was to select a character from The Sleep Book and use it to inspire an original human-hybrid makeup that captures the essence of Dr.
Seuss.
Let's see what you came up with.
The hair is just very, like, standout-ish and fun and over-the-top, very Seuss-like.
And I'm very happy.
He is able to show emotion through the prosthetic, which is exactly what Brian asked for.
So I think I pulled that part of it off very well.
I'm liking how the makeup looks.
The judges I'm sure got a good first impression from far away.
I'm just a little worried about closer looks.
Overall I'm very happy with the makeup.
Whether it looks like a Dr.
Seuss character or not is the thing that's up for question.
This is a nightmare.
My dream is over.
This is the worst makeup I've ever done in my whole life.
I think he's cute and I like him.
My makeup is probably not on top, but I'm hoping that it's safe.
I'd really like to not be on the bottom.
Judges, why don't you take a closer look? This is cool, the way that he did the brows.
- Yeah.
- That's a nice touch.
I love the hair.
As you can see, I'm interested in hair.
- So was I, at one point.
- Yeah.
From where I'm at, looks like everything's holding up, so Yeah, it's pretty nerve-wracking still.
Gesticulate and let's just see the movement.
Open your mouth as much as you can.
Oh, wow.
Great.
A little planet of the apes.
You're freaking me out.
See this shape is working really well for me.
I looked at it from far away, I really hated the shape.
- Yeah.
- But now close up it works.
And it really looks Seussian in profile.
- See the edges? - Yeah.
Really rough.
Not even close.
It seems like they like it and then they see Glenn touch the edge of her mouth.
It doesn't really look good.
I'm really worried that this makeup could be sending me home.
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- These edges are really rough.
- Yeah.
I see Glenn touch the edge of her mouth.
I'm really worried this makeup could be sending me home.
The ears are a little alien for me.
Now is this sculpted at all? Oh, no.
That's just all paint.
The texture comes from the paint.
I think it's cool.
This is actually the tail up on the head.
She's covered it up.
Maybe she didn't like the way it came out, I don't know.
Yeah, that makes two of us.
This a weird transition right above the eye.
It's very strange.
It feels a little bit like Beetlejuice to me.
So Brian, how do you feel they did tonight? I know how difficult it is, given that I've lived in a few Seuss movies myself.
And I thought you guys did a great job.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
All right, the judges would now like to speak with each of you, to learn more about your work.
Roy.
You're up first.
Begin by telling us your basic concept for this character.
This is a hybrid of the Foona-Lagoona-Baboona and a human.
So what I did is I tried to capture the essence in the face of the Seuss character.
And then I decided to go with human hair instead of the wild Seuss hair.
Once again you've certainly taken on an incredibly ambitious endeavor in the amount of work.
This week I think it was the right decision.
I'm really impressed with the amount of work.
- Thank you.
- This makes me smile.
- Don't know what it is.
- It's 'cause he's smiling.
Could be.
I really do like him.
Thank you.
From a producer's point of view, there's a lot to work with here.
I thought it was very Seussian.
I think you did a good job.
- Thank you very much.
- Roy, please step back.
Nicole.
So tell us about your concept.
My guy was the Bumble-Tub and he had little curly-Q's on his head in the drawing and he had hair coming from his cheeks.
So I just wanted to take some of that and just kind of bump it up a little bit.
Feels like he automatically plugs in to this world.
You took the hair down into kind of these sideburns.
Yeah.
That is great.
Probably the most Seussian of all of the characters that I'm looking at.
The hair is very groovy.
I like the hands.
Thank you.
Did you bring airbrush colors down to the fun fur as well? - Yeah.
- I think it's great.
It's quick, it's sloppy, but it works.
It looks like a Seuss character and for once I don't hate that there's fun fur covering this guy.
Thank you so much.
Nicole, thank you very much.
You can step back.
Derek.
Derek, can you explain the concept? Uh, my character is called Snorter McPhail.
And he is a conductor of a band of snores in a cave.
There's something that's out of balance.
It has to do with the size of her face and the size of the hair.
The paint is marring an otherwise salient concept.
You sort of have this very indiscriminately applied, garish makeup that's just tragic.
What happened to your wig? It's, like, totally different than it was yesterday.
And what's all this mess down here? Good God.
Just trying to get the hair, kind of-- continuation.
I think you kind of missed the mark this week, honey.
Derek, thank you very much.
- Please step back.
- Thank you.
Thanks.
Alana.
Let's start with your basic concept.
I had a very, very hard time with this makeup, I truly did.
I just wish I could reset.
It's refreshing that you're that aware of where you're at this week.
You can't get better if you can't acknowledge your mistakes.
Which this most certainly is.
It is calamitous.
Your paint application this week is a morbid failure.
Yesterday, honey, you told me that your character was supposed to be a sweet, little girl, right? There's no nice, big, soft, round bald cheeks.
Like, big cherry cheeks.
No cute little turned-up nose.
It's like a pinched little weird-- like a bad nose job.
And where's your little freckles? You did some other weird thing, I don't know.
I looks like bad age-spots all over his head.
I just wish I could have the opportunity to do something better.
Alana, thank you very much.
Will you please step back.
Thank you.
Good job.
And Laura.
Would you tell us about your character, please? My character was called a Chippendale Mupp.
The picture looks like a dragon-dog-lion thing.
So this is what I came up with.
Overall I like the look of this character.
I do like the color palette.
I love the hair.
I think all that works really well.
Thank you.
If you can turn sideways.
Just below his ear there's some really great fake sculpt going on with your paint.
Definitely.
And that's pretty magnificent that you can render that well with an airbrush.
Thank you.
For me, I like the dimensions of the body and I like the color of the body, and I think it works very well with your original idea.
- Congratulations, good work.
- Thank you.
Laura, thank you very much.
If you'd please step back.
Sarah, you're up next.
Would you tell us about your creation and who your character is? I have the Hinkle-Horn Honker.
They play horns.
They play horns.
From far away the paint job doesn't look all that fantastic.
I think there's probably a lot of things that you could have done to really bump up the paint job.
And I also think you put a little too much hair on this guy.
We're thinking he looks a little Beetlejuice-y.
- Oh.
- Um, yeah.
Well, for me, I probably-- if I were just to enter onto the set, I'd say maybe we have to start over.
'Cause I don't feel the Seussian heartbeat living inside of this particular identity.
I'm disappointed that you didn't disrupt the human form here.
Something as simple as a bell-shaped stomach or something.
Just anything other than just a guy in pajamas, because that is what it feels like and that's a huge problem for me.
Sarah, thank you very much.
You can step back.
Thank you.
All right, everybody, the judges have heard what you have to say.
If you would please head back to the makeup room while the make their decisions.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
All right, guys, let's start with the looks you liked the most.
Why don't we begin with Laura.
This one stands out in stark contrast against the work of the competitors.
And she executed it so well that I've gotta give her massive credit for it.
I think there's a lot of ability in this particular creation.
Let's move on to Nicole.
I liked what she did probably the best.
And that hairdo was so fabulous.
I'm really proud of the fight from her since she's come back.
- Oh, yeah.
- It's a different Nicole.
- That's amazing.
- Yeah, it is.
All right, guys, let's move on to Roy.
I really did like this one a lot because it so manipulated the actor's eyes underneath the rubber.
It didn't just feel like an actor was looking through a rubber mask.
Even the stomach, it's a little too big and a little too lopsided.
- I'm not sure it's Seuss.
- It doesn't even bother me.
I'm not sure it's human, I'm not sure that it did any of the things they were supposed to do this week.
But I still like it.
All right let's move on to the looks you liked the least.
Why don't we start with Derek.
He wasn't thinking about the big picture.
She has a tiny little face.
And he encapsulated her with this giant hairdo.
This show is about makeup and that muddy paintjob just won't fly tonight, it's just not good enough.
All right, let's move on to Alana.
Oh boy, Alana kind of blew it today.
If that were presented to me by the director, it'd be a very bad day for me.
Because I just didn't think it was within the world at all of anything that I would want in a Seuss movie.
Let's move on to Sarah.
I just thought it was kind of a wipeout.
I think she didn't work very hard at the costume and getting us past that.
I just didn't feel like there was much hope at all.
The mouth is a cool shape, but then you have to address where that goes.
It's just these mounds sitting out here.
Not good.
Judges, have you made your decisions? - Yup.
- Yes, we have.
Let's bring them back out.
All right, Glenn, why don't you tell us about the top looks.
Roy, this is a really fun character.
Once again impressed with how much you were able to get done in the time that you were given.
Laura.
You had a really nice color palette and you added some great structure into your makeup with your airbrushing.
And Nicole, you got a lot right this week.
We really liked the character's hair.
The sculpture, and loved that you brought your paintjob down into the fur.
So Glenn, who is the winner of this week's challenge? The winner is So Glenn, who is the winner of this challenge? The winner is - Nicole.
- Yay! - Oh, my God.
- Ooh, girl.
Congratulations.
We thought that you did the best job embracing both your model's humanity and the quintessential Dr.
Seuss aesthetic.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you so much.
What an amazing feeling.
I've come back and now I'm doing something that the judges are loving.
Nicole, congratulations.
You can head back to the makeup room.
Laura, Roy, you are also safe this week.
Please head back to the makeup room.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
Good luck, guys.
Unfortunately that means the rest of you are on the bottom this week and one of you will be eliminated.
Please step forward.
Glenn, please tell us about the bottom looks.
Sarah, we liked some of the aspects of your character, but it ultimately felt a little bit more Beetlejuice than it did Dr.
Seuss.
Derek, we thought your silhouette and profile were really, really strong.
But you made some critical errors in your sculpt and paintjob.
And Alana, there were glimpses of what it was that you had hoped to do with your character, but a lot of things did not work out well for you this week.
So then who is going home tonight? The person leaving tonight is Alana.
Your inability to settle on a concept was blindingly obvious tonight.
Alana, I'm sorry but you have been eliminated.
Derek, Sarah, you guys are safe this week.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room.
Alana, honey, please keep in touch with me.
Absolutely.
I just can't wait to see where you're gonna be in a year.
Hearing this from Ve Neill is the highlight of my life.
I feel like a million bucks right now.
Thank you all so much, this has been the best stress I've ever been under in my whole life.
Alana, it has been great having you here with us.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
- Of course.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
Good luck.
Thank you.
This has been an amazing experience.
- It's me.
- Oh, there she is.
- Oh, my God.
- Are you okay? Dude, I knew it.
I just knew the Offt would get me offed, you know? I know that my family and especially my dad is gonna be so proud of me and I'm so excited for him to see the work that I have done here.
Face Off has given me the courage to believe in myself.
And Nicole fought her way back into the competition.
Oh, my God.
In the spotlight challenge, Laura's makeup took her to the top.
And Rod was sent home.
Now only six artists remain.
Tonight they will reinvent characters from a legendary artist.
Your challenge this week is based on a true classic.
Awesome! And get judged by a titan of Tinsel Town.
Oh, my God! This is the biggest person we've ever had on Face Off.
Dude, I'm just not a happy camper.
This will be the one that sends me home.
I have a lot to prove because I got pulled back from the dead.
I'm just, like, totally in turmoil.
I feel like such an idiot.
Your paint application is a morbid failure.
Something about this makes me smile.
In the end, only one will win the opportunity to be a guest lecturer at Makeup Forever'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 wake up in the morning and I just feel horrible.
I'm bummed to go into this day without having Rod around.
Morning! Girl.
What's up? Alana's really sad.
Her best friend Rod is gone.
I'm concerned about her.
It just tore me up, you know? Yeah.
I think that without Rod, she's really confused on how she's gonna do this and it's all up to her now.
Come on, get up.
Let's go! I don't wanna get up yet.
Get up, sleepyhead! Let's go to work! I'm just feeling a little sour apples.
I miss my friend.
We are on the Universal back lot.
Which is so awesome, I've never been here before.
Oh, cool! We come walking around the corner and there's snow on the ground.
Okay, so what is this place? I'm freaking out with excitement because this is where movie magic happens.
There's these two cars.
There's these crazy houses with snow all over them.
And there's McKenzie.
Welcome to the set of Whoville, on the Universal Studios backlit.
- Awesome! - Oh, my gosh.
This is one of the many elaborate sets used in the film, How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
So for generations the rhythmic words and imaginative characters of Dr.
Seuss have been adapted into numerous TV shows, musicals and films.
Including The Cat In The Hat and The Lorax.
So in honor of its 50th anniversary, your challenge this week is based on a true classic.
Dr.
Seuss's Sleep Book.
- That's cool.
- Yeah! - Whoo! - Yeah.
- Whoo! - I'm excited.
Dr.
Seuss's Sleep Book is about how they go to sleep.
It's just a really good bedtime story.
Dr.
Seuss had a knack for making creatures that have an almost human-like quality to them.
With that in mind, your spotlight challenge is to select a character from the Sleep Book and use it to inspire an original human-hybrid makeup that captures the essence of Dr.
Seuss.
- Awesome.
- I love Dr.
Seuss.
I can't think of any other artist that has such a definitive style.
So right now I would like to introduce a very special guest who definitely knows a thing or two about making a classic character.
He's an academy award-winning producer for A Beautiful Mind, has been nominated for Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon and Splash, which he also co-wrote.
In total, he has produced over 100 films.
Wow.
Please welcome Mr.
Brian Grazer.
Yay! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my God! Brian Grazer.
He's won an Oscar.
Wow.
This is probably the biggest person we've ever had in Face Off history.
Hi.
Thank you so much for being here.
Thanks for having me.
You have made so many great films, including Dr.
Seuss's The Cat In The Hat, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
So tell us, how were you able to make it so successful? To take Dr.
Seuss's imaginative characters from the page and then translate it to a screen? Well, you want to feel the reality and the truth of the actor.
And so to do that the makeup has to feel seamless and real so that you're not distracted by makeup that feels in any way artificial.
Brian gives us some great advice, 'cause as a producer he has to look at all makeup's and pretty much every aspect of the films that he works on.
So he's somebody at you want to listen to.
Okay, so what you guys don't know is that Brian is not just a guest here today, he's actually going to be joining us on the reveal stage to take a look at your final creations.
Oh, wow.
All right, so displayed behind me are the names of eight characters from Dr.
Seuss's Sleep Book.
Each of you will get to select one from which to base your designs on.
Nicole, you get to pick first.
I really just like the sound of Bumble-Tub.
So I grabbed Bumble-Tub.
Ian and I always go, "Oof! Oof!" - There you go.
- So Oof! I don't know what Alana's thinking.
She picks the only one up there that has nothing recognizable about it.
'Cause that's something that her and her boyfriend say, that's not a good enough reason to pick a character for makeup.
Chippendale Mupp.
Foona-Lagoona Baboona.
The Hinkle-Horn Honker.
I think it just sounds kind of fun.
I don't know what it's gonna be.
Last but not least.
Snorter McPhail's still on the board and that's the one I pick.
So, cool, I'm excited to see what this character looks like.
All right, guys, it is time to get started on your designs so grab a sketchpad and get started.
I will see you all soon.
The challenge is to not only create a Seuss character, but it has to be a human-hybrid character.
So the first thing obviously is I need to figure out what my character looks like.
I find out the Hinkle-Horn Honkers are these little yellow guys with crazy hair, in beds, and they are horn players.
I really like that they've got long noses, big smiles, and I can do some really fun hair work.
I'm looking through the book and Snorter McPhail is a conductor of snores that make music.
He has long ears, so my idea is to do a hairstyle with the hair long like the ears.
And the nose, I'm gonna make kind of like the Who nose but more human-looking.
But still have that pointy upward look to it.
My character is Bumble-Tub.
He sits in this little crate and he floats down the river with his sleep crew.
So there's Sleepy.
I'm sketching curly-Q's on his head.
And then I want them to be big.
I wanna have this big belly, these crazy fingers, and lots of curly stuff.
I'm not really sure how I'm gonna do this, but it looks cool on paper.
I'm flipping through the book and I'm flipping, I'm flipping.
I finally find my character.
And it looks like a cotton ball puff monster.
There's really no detail at all.
It doesn't look like any animal.
Everyone else has characters that resemble a dog or a dragon or a chimp.
And I got this cotton ball monster.
I got the Foona-Lagoona-Baboona.
This is the picture and I'm basically just thinking, like, chimp that's swinging from tree to tree.
I decided to go with my character-- more human, more realistic ape.
'Cause a human-hybrid with Dr.
Seuss could be, like, what the Grinch looks like.
Or it can be more human than the Grinch.
So that's where my concept's going.
Oh, your character looks cool.
Mine has a giant tail.
My character is the Chippendale Mupp and he'll bite his tail right before he goes to sleep and then about eight or nine hours later, he'll wake up again and go, "ow!" It's either gonna look cartoony or really, really weird.
Everybody's doing amazing stuff so it's gonna be hard.
It's anybody's game, I think.
We get back to the lab and choose our models.
Immediately start sculpting.
I'm trying to get the nose to look more human and make it look real.
Oh, God.
- How would you do this bitch? - Uh I'm miserable.
I have no feeling of inspiration from this particular character.
I don't want to do a big fur suit.
I just don't want to say anything and then the judges not like it, you know? I know, I just want your advice.
I'm not gonna be saying it-- 'Cause really I'm just so lost.
You're really good at this stuff.
I'm lost.
I think Alana is worried about going home.
I'm thinking about doing, like, a chubby girl.
Big head with this tail on the top.
You could do that.
It doesn't seem like she has a clue what she's gonna do.
Thank you.
I mean, I-- honestly, I mean-- I don't know.
- Hi.
- What? - Hi.
- Hello? - Huh? - Hey.
Since Nicole's been back we've really started connecting.
She's a really cool chick.
I'm just glad I'm getting to know her better.
- This is fun.
- Mm-hm.
I like this one.
I'm taking what Brian Grazer said and I'm using my model and I'm going with the forms of his face.
And I'm sculpting that out.
It's really looking like something that would happen naturally.
If he was turning into a Seuss character.
You having fun, Laura? My concept for the Chippendale Mupp human-hybrid it's a mix of interesting genres.
And I thought, oh! Dr.
Moreau.
Dr.
Seuss.
That might be cool.
A little realistic Dr.
Moreau route while still keeping to the Dr.
Seuss world.
Can I ask you what you're doing for your costume? - I am doing-- - Are you making him furry? This.
Yeah.
Yours is more like a pajamas, huh? He is kind of but I don't know if I want him in pajamas.
Pajamas would be cute.
'Cause this is a whole sleepy, bedtime book.
Good idea.
Good.
You're right.
You know? - Hey, Roy.
- I'm just not a happy camper.
I'm trying to make sure it doesn't look like the Grinch but I can't really remember what the Grinch looks like either.
And that's looking more and more like the Grinch.
- Really? - Yeah.
Hold on, I'm trying to figure it out.
This will be the one that sends me home because it has a big, Grinchy grin on it.
I see everybody knowing what direction they want to take, getting inspired.
How's it coming? I'm just, like, totally in turmoil right now.
I just wanna cry my eyes out.
I feel like such an idiot.
I don't know how to make this work.
I just want to do a great makeup and it's, like, this huge chicken with a mask on.
That's, like, the number one thing.
- Alana, Alana-- - I, like, never want to do now.
I'm going home.
Like, I'm just so freakin' defeated right now.
Coming up I'm gonna paint it mustardy yellow and then hints of brown.
But we're back into that fun fur zone, which is unfortunate.
Please welcome Oscar-winning producer, Brian Grazer.
I don't feel the Seussian heartbeat.
Something about this makes me smile.
Today is the first day of our Dr.
Seuss challenge.
And I'm a mess right now.
I just want to do a great makeup-- - But here's-- listen.
- And it's, like, this huge - Okay.
- chicken.
Take a deep breath.
Use what you like to do, which is use the person's face, right? Use that.
I'm still feeling like I'm in trouble, but I don't feel alone.
Give me a Sarah hug.
- That is too cool.
- Why, thank you.
It's looking more and more like the Grinch.
I gotta change it.
I don't think it looks anything like the Grinch.
Especially the eyes and everything.
The most important part is the face.
So hearing Nicole say that gives me a lot of encouragement.
What you making with the wire? - I wanna make his wand.
- Ah.
Kind of all swirly like Dr.
Seuss.
I'm gonna do some fabrication 'cause I want to get my makeup detailed as much as possible.
I want to do a huge belly.
So it can be, like, a human belly but in the shape of a Dr.
Seuss character.
Five minutes.
By the end of the day, I'm actually in pretty good shape.
'Cause I've got my face sculpted and I actually have my body halfway sculpted.
So tomorrow I'll just be making the mold.
All right, that's it.
Let's go home.
I really have so much work to do tomorrow.
So I really need to keep my eyes on the prize here and stay focused.
Good luck.
It's day two, I've got ten hours.
In this challenge I have to be top or, better yet, win.
And I cannot be bottom.
If I'm bottom, I might as well leave.
I'm definitely going for a more realistic sculpt.
So I find pictures of primates.
I'm gonna try to combine it with the nose of a lion and do the mouth of an older person.
So this creature's just a hodgepodge of many different elements.
- Need help with that? - Yeah.
Come on, then.
Great.
So this torso belly is a really big piece.
I mean, I've got 250 pounds of wet clay on it.
Got a lot of clay.
This is a gigantic mold.
This thing is gonna be a nightmare.
We need, like, a little mold gnome.
All right, give me your gnome.
It's time to mold.
I'm still not sure how to color the hair.
The character in the book is yellow, but I see that a lot of people are going for yellow.
So I definitely want my character to look different than anybody else's.
- Hello, everybody.
- Hi, guys.
I have Ve with me.
We're gonna come do a little walkthrough.
So I see Ve and I'm, like, "I really don't want to let you down.
Please say that I'm going in the right direction.
" Oh, my gosh, Ve.
Are you okay? What's going on? Look at that.
Oh, my gosh.
What am I gonna do? It's called an Offt.
So I'm gonna do a yellowy flesh tone.
Mm-hm.
And I really want it to be a girl.
But I'm so lost here.
This is very masculine.
And I know she's supposed to be, like, a little fluffy but I wouldn't put too many chins.
If you're going for a little girl, this is not gonna work for you.
Okay.
Is there a reason why you wanna go with silicone as opposed to foam? I want it to have that human flesh look to it.
'Cause it's supposed to be a human-hybrid.
It's kind of heavy.
That's what I'm worried about though.
So that's why I'm asking for a little advice here.
Which way would you go? Would you go foam or silicone? I would go back to foam personally.
- I dig your wig.
- I know.
I love that.
That is really cool.
- So instead of the ears-- - Mm-hm.
I want to incorporate the hairstyle.
Oh, look at the hair, that's-- So it's more of a human-hybrid kind of a thing.
- That's a cute idea.
- Smart.
What's his wardrobe? All this is gonna be fur and I'm gonna paint it mustardy-yellow and then hints of brown.
But we're back into that fun fur zone which is kind of unfortunate.
Fun fur is cheap-looking, costume-y fur material that doesn't look professional enough.
I know Glenn does not like fun fur and I'm worried about it, but my guy's gonna be in fun fur.
So I have the Hinkle-Horn Honker and he's yellows and greens with plum.
Everybody has yellow creatures this week.
- I know.
- Yes.
It's gonna be pretty interesting.
I'm hoping his hair is the yellow-est part of him.
And the rest is gonna be a little more flesh-esque.
Okay.
So Derek, he had the Snorter McPhail.
I do like the idea of the hair, then using it as the ears.
I love that.
Using that as ears.
- That, to me is-- - Yeah.
Adding in that Dr.
Seuss quality with a human aspect.
- Yeah, it will be great.
- So let's move on to Sarah's then.
I didn't really think a lot of the sculpture.
Right.
I think the sculpture was kind of weak.
We'll have to see how that one comes together.
Exactly.
So let's move on to Alana.
I'm concerned it's not gonna be a sweet little girl, if that's what she's going for.
Right.
And plus she's got the big ball for a suit again.
So that's kind of a worry for me.
- Yeah.
- I don't know.
Sarah and Alana are kind of my concerns right now.
The two that you're concerned about? - I can't wait for tomorrow.
- Me neither.
All right, gang, we're heading out.
- It's looking good.
- Bye, everybody.
- Bye.
- Good luck.
Thank you.
Ve's not down with my character and I'm just freaking out.
So I have to re-sculpt the face.
The cowl's not finished yet.
So I need to get it together and keep moving or else I'm gonna go home.
At this point I've pretty much got everything done that I needed to get done.
I wish I could listen to music or something.
I don't know what to do, I'm just bored.
I decide that I'm going to fabricate a horn.
I take some armature wire and foam tube and wrap it around this armature wire.
Spray paint everything.
I'm enjoying what it looks like.
Hey, Roy.
I'm now left with hardly any time at all before the end of the day, and my mold is not popped.
I'm getting really nervous.
Heat is what's gonna cure this mold faster.
So I'm throwing garbage bags over it.
Bringing two hair dryers up to it and I'm trying to create this heat bubble.
Time's running out and if this mold is not cast for tomorrow's application, I'm not gonna have anything here.
It's gonna be a nightmare.
Hey, Roy.
I don't know if I can crack this.
I'm now left with hardly any time at all before the end of the day and my md is not popped.
That there needs to dry some more.
I'm totally in turmoil.
I'm having such a hard time coming up with a concept.
But now I'm not even gonna have a cowl and that's the whole thing that even inspired me even a little bit on this makeup.
I got all the hair laid up where I want it.
The swirls are turning out really well.
- Looks cool.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- I super-respect Derek.
I think he's awesome.
So for him to come over and be, like, "dude," was awesome.
It, like, felt really good.
Originally I was gonna make, like, a fur hood to put overtop of the cowl.
But I'm running out of time.
I've opted to just lay the hair by hand.
We have six minutes.
Time is running out and my mold is not popped.
If this is gonna get done, it needs to get done right now.
Do it carefully.
Carefully.
Very carefully.
- He's coming.
- There we go.
So we all start going to town, picking the clay out of this mold.
Just slip it right out.
Get those little guys or you won't have your little bumps.
Let's take it outside and we'll clean it out there.
Oh, I could cry.
I love you guys so much.
A minute, 17.
All right.
This side's done.
Thank you.
- That's time, everybody.
- Thank you so much, dude.
Oh, man, what a day.
It's application day.
We have four hours to apply and then one hour of last looks at the stage.
Application day is really the make or break day for any of these makeup's.
'Cause I've heard the judges say 1,000 times, "you can save a bad prosthetic with a good makeup.
You can also destroy a good prosthetic with a bad makeup.
" I'm ecstatic.
My foam came out amazing.
At this point it's all a matter of time management and to do all of the details.
Hee-hee-hee.
Good morning.
That's your costume.
You're a conductor of a snoring band.
Oh, cool.
- I got a big noggin, huh? - You got a big ol' noggin.
Lay your head back.
Immediately I start applying the prosthetic on the model.
I'm taking my time.
It's not a big piece.
Trying to get the edges really clean.
I definitely think I have a shot at winning this one.
I think I have a strong concept.
But I'm also kind of worried.
Did I do too little? How does that feel, mama? I get my pieces and my edges are, like, thick wedges.
And on top of this, I still don't even know how or what I'm painting here.
I can't use the same paint techniques I've been using.
I need to challenge myself and do something new.
I'm a fighter.
I'm not rolling over and dying in this competition, I need to keep pushing.
I don't like this poofy right here.
With that fun fur on I'm, like, "this is so bright yellow.
" You're gonna look like a frickin' chicken.
I'm really, like, not liking this color.
Oh, lord.
You're fluffy today.
The gloves are taken care of.
The feet are taken care of.
I just need to work on the cowl and the face.
So having all this time to just focus on blending and airbrushing and detail work I'm excited.
I love this.
Everything is going pretty smooth for me here in applications.
For some reason I just had this idea to put some purple in with the pink.
I thought that along with the yellow pajama suit would pull everything together.
One foot at a time, I guess.
I'm gonna have you put your head forward.
I'm gonna put the wig on real quick and see what it looks like.
I feel like I'm in a pretty good place.
I'm happy with what I'm coming up with.
I think he's looking cool.
This one piece is not gonna work.
It's way too tight.
Turn for me.
If I have to I'll cut it off at the zipper at last looks.
Make it like a Grinch Christmas suit.
I decided to go with human hair and I'm liking the way this is turning out.
That's time! Time! Now that everything's done I'm looking around and thinking, "oh, wow, there's a lot of color.
" I'm wishing I had put color somewhere else on him rather than just the hair.
So this could either go really good or really bad.
Coming up I have a giant chicken I have to make not look like a chicken.
You're freaking me out.
I don't feel a Seussian heartbeat living inside of this.
That's just tragic.
This makeup could be sending me home.
My model's sitting in his suit and I get his face on and he's starting to fall asleep.
And it's kind of hilarious.
He's in this fat suit and he's got this little greeny face, it's happy, and he's sleeping.
And he's just like away and he is living Bumble-Tub right now.
he wakes up.
You're killing me.
So we get the last looks, we have an hour left to apply everything else that's needed.
This last hour is really important to this because I have a giant chicken I have to make not look like a chicken.
I'm still slightly unsure about my paintjob.
I'm wondering if I should still pop in some of that color.
God, that's creepy as hell.
The edges of my prosthetic around the mouth are lifting.
I am pretty worried.
It is tough getting those edges to look flawless.
If it's not blended out, you're gonna see it.
I'm gonna keep painting you until the last second.
Come on over here, girl.
Guys, that's time! That's it.
Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
Tonight one of you will be eliminated.
Say hello to your judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Makeup Effects Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
- Good evening.
- Evening.
Three time Oscar-winning makeup artist, Ve Neill.
- Hi, everybody.
- Hi, ve.
Creature and concept designer, Neville Page.
Hello.
And please welcome back our very special guest judge this week, Oscar and Emmy-winning producer, Brian Grazer.
Whoo! Thank you.
Thanks for having me.
All right, guys, so this week your spotlight challenge was to select a character from The Sleep Book and use it to inspire an original human-hybrid makeup that captures the essence of Dr.
Seuss.
Let's see what you came up with.
The hair is just very, like, standout-ish and fun and over-the-top, very Seuss-like.
And I'm very happy.
He is able to show emotion through the prosthetic, which is exactly what Brian asked for.
So I think I pulled that part of it off very well.
I'm liking how the makeup looks.
The judges I'm sure got a good first impression from far away.
I'm just a little worried about closer looks.
Overall I'm very happy with the makeup.
Whether it looks like a Dr.
Seuss character or not is the thing that's up for question.
This is a nightmare.
My dream is over.
This is the worst makeup I've ever done in my whole life.
I think he's cute and I like him.
My makeup is probably not on top, but I'm hoping that it's safe.
I'd really like to not be on the bottom.
Judges, why don't you take a closer look? This is cool, the way that he did the brows.
- Yeah.
- That's a nice touch.
I love the hair.
As you can see, I'm interested in hair.
- So was I, at one point.
- Yeah.
From where I'm at, looks like everything's holding up, so Yeah, it's pretty nerve-wracking still.
Gesticulate and let's just see the movement.
Open your mouth as much as you can.
Oh, wow.
Great.
A little planet of the apes.
You're freaking me out.
See this shape is working really well for me.
I looked at it from far away, I really hated the shape.
- Yeah.
- But now close up it works.
And it really looks Seussian in profile.
- See the edges? - Yeah.
Really rough.
Not even close.
It seems like they like it and then they see Glenn touch the edge of her mouth.
It doesn't really look good.
I'm really worried that this makeup could be sending me home.
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- These edges are really rough.
- Yeah.
I see Glenn touch the edge of her mouth.
I'm really worried this makeup could be sending me home.
The ears are a little alien for me.
Now is this sculpted at all? Oh, no.
That's just all paint.
The texture comes from the paint.
I think it's cool.
This is actually the tail up on the head.
She's covered it up.
Maybe she didn't like the way it came out, I don't know.
Yeah, that makes two of us.
This a weird transition right above the eye.
It's very strange.
It feels a little bit like Beetlejuice to me.
So Brian, how do you feel they did tonight? I know how difficult it is, given that I've lived in a few Seuss movies myself.
And I thought you guys did a great job.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
All right, the judges would now like to speak with each of you, to learn more about your work.
Roy.
You're up first.
Begin by telling us your basic concept for this character.
This is a hybrid of the Foona-Lagoona-Baboona and a human.
So what I did is I tried to capture the essence in the face of the Seuss character.
And then I decided to go with human hair instead of the wild Seuss hair.
Once again you've certainly taken on an incredibly ambitious endeavor in the amount of work.
This week I think it was the right decision.
I'm really impressed with the amount of work.
- Thank you.
- This makes me smile.
- Don't know what it is.
- It's 'cause he's smiling.
Could be.
I really do like him.
Thank you.
From a producer's point of view, there's a lot to work with here.
I thought it was very Seussian.
I think you did a good job.
- Thank you very much.
- Roy, please step back.
Nicole.
So tell us about your concept.
My guy was the Bumble-Tub and he had little curly-Q's on his head in the drawing and he had hair coming from his cheeks.
So I just wanted to take some of that and just kind of bump it up a little bit.
Feels like he automatically plugs in to this world.
You took the hair down into kind of these sideburns.
Yeah.
That is great.
Probably the most Seussian of all of the characters that I'm looking at.
The hair is very groovy.
I like the hands.
Thank you.
Did you bring airbrush colors down to the fun fur as well? - Yeah.
- I think it's great.
It's quick, it's sloppy, but it works.
It looks like a Seuss character and for once I don't hate that there's fun fur covering this guy.
Thank you so much.
Nicole, thank you very much.
You can step back.
Derek.
Derek, can you explain the concept? Uh, my character is called Snorter McPhail.
And he is a conductor of a band of snores in a cave.
There's something that's out of balance.
It has to do with the size of her face and the size of the hair.
The paint is marring an otherwise salient concept.
You sort of have this very indiscriminately applied, garish makeup that's just tragic.
What happened to your wig? It's, like, totally different than it was yesterday.
And what's all this mess down here? Good God.
Just trying to get the hair, kind of-- continuation.
I think you kind of missed the mark this week, honey.
Derek, thank you very much.
- Please step back.
- Thank you.
Thanks.
Alana.
Let's start with your basic concept.
I had a very, very hard time with this makeup, I truly did.
I just wish I could reset.
It's refreshing that you're that aware of where you're at this week.
You can't get better if you can't acknowledge your mistakes.
Which this most certainly is.
It is calamitous.
Your paint application this week is a morbid failure.
Yesterday, honey, you told me that your character was supposed to be a sweet, little girl, right? There's no nice, big, soft, round bald cheeks.
Like, big cherry cheeks.
No cute little turned-up nose.
It's like a pinched little weird-- like a bad nose job.
And where's your little freckles? You did some other weird thing, I don't know.
I looks like bad age-spots all over his head.
I just wish I could have the opportunity to do something better.
Alana, thank you very much.
Will you please step back.
Thank you.
Good job.
And Laura.
Would you tell us about your character, please? My character was called a Chippendale Mupp.
The picture looks like a dragon-dog-lion thing.
So this is what I came up with.
Overall I like the look of this character.
I do like the color palette.
I love the hair.
I think all that works really well.
Thank you.
If you can turn sideways.
Just below his ear there's some really great fake sculpt going on with your paint.
Definitely.
And that's pretty magnificent that you can render that well with an airbrush.
Thank you.
For me, I like the dimensions of the body and I like the color of the body, and I think it works very well with your original idea.
- Congratulations, good work.
- Thank you.
Laura, thank you very much.
If you'd please step back.
Sarah, you're up next.
Would you tell us about your creation and who your character is? I have the Hinkle-Horn Honker.
They play horns.
They play horns.
From far away the paint job doesn't look all that fantastic.
I think there's probably a lot of things that you could have done to really bump up the paint job.
And I also think you put a little too much hair on this guy.
We're thinking he looks a little Beetlejuice-y.
- Oh.
- Um, yeah.
Well, for me, I probably-- if I were just to enter onto the set, I'd say maybe we have to start over.
'Cause I don't feel the Seussian heartbeat living inside of this particular identity.
I'm disappointed that you didn't disrupt the human form here.
Something as simple as a bell-shaped stomach or something.
Just anything other than just a guy in pajamas, because that is what it feels like and that's a huge problem for me.
Sarah, thank you very much.
You can step back.
Thank you.
All right, everybody, the judges have heard what you have to say.
If you would please head back to the makeup room while the make their decisions.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
All right, guys, let's start with the looks you liked the most.
Why don't we begin with Laura.
This one stands out in stark contrast against the work of the competitors.
And she executed it so well that I've gotta give her massive credit for it.
I think there's a lot of ability in this particular creation.
Let's move on to Nicole.
I liked what she did probably the best.
And that hairdo was so fabulous.
I'm really proud of the fight from her since she's come back.
- Oh, yeah.
- It's a different Nicole.
- That's amazing.
- Yeah, it is.
All right, guys, let's move on to Roy.
I really did like this one a lot because it so manipulated the actor's eyes underneath the rubber.
It didn't just feel like an actor was looking through a rubber mask.
Even the stomach, it's a little too big and a little too lopsided.
- I'm not sure it's Seuss.
- It doesn't even bother me.
I'm not sure it's human, I'm not sure that it did any of the things they were supposed to do this week.
But I still like it.
All right let's move on to the looks you liked the least.
Why don't we start with Derek.
He wasn't thinking about the big picture.
She has a tiny little face.
And he encapsulated her with this giant hairdo.
This show is about makeup and that muddy paintjob just won't fly tonight, it's just not good enough.
All right, let's move on to Alana.
Oh boy, Alana kind of blew it today.
If that were presented to me by the director, it'd be a very bad day for me.
Because I just didn't think it was within the world at all of anything that I would want in a Seuss movie.
Let's move on to Sarah.
I just thought it was kind of a wipeout.
I think she didn't work very hard at the costume and getting us past that.
I just didn't feel like there was much hope at all.
The mouth is a cool shape, but then you have to address where that goes.
It's just these mounds sitting out here.
Not good.
Judges, have you made your decisions? - Yup.
- Yes, we have.
Let's bring them back out.
All right, Glenn, why don't you tell us about the top looks.
Roy, this is a really fun character.
Once again impressed with how much you were able to get done in the time that you were given.
Laura.
You had a really nice color palette and you added some great structure into your makeup with your airbrushing.
And Nicole, you got a lot right this week.
We really liked the character's hair.
The sculpture, and loved that you brought your paintjob down into the fur.
So Glenn, who is the winner of this week's challenge? The winner is So Glenn, who is the winner of this challenge? The winner is - Nicole.
- Yay! - Oh, my God.
- Ooh, girl.
Congratulations.
We thought that you did the best job embracing both your model's humanity and the quintessential Dr.
Seuss aesthetic.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you so much.
What an amazing feeling.
I've come back and now I'm doing something that the judges are loving.
Nicole, congratulations.
You can head back to the makeup room.
Laura, Roy, you are also safe this week.
Please head back to the makeup room.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
Good luck, guys.
Unfortunately that means the rest of you are on the bottom this week and one of you will be eliminated.
Please step forward.
Glenn, please tell us about the bottom looks.
Sarah, we liked some of the aspects of your character, but it ultimately felt a little bit more Beetlejuice than it did Dr.
Seuss.
Derek, we thought your silhouette and profile were really, really strong.
But you made some critical errors in your sculpt and paintjob.
And Alana, there were glimpses of what it was that you had hoped to do with your character, but a lot of things did not work out well for you this week.
So then who is going home tonight? The person leaving tonight is Alana.
Your inability to settle on a concept was blindingly obvious tonight.
Alana, I'm sorry but you have been eliminated.
Derek, Sarah, you guys are safe this week.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room.
Alana, honey, please keep in touch with me.
Absolutely.
I just can't wait to see where you're gonna be in a year.
Hearing this from Ve Neill is the highlight of my life.
I feel like a million bucks right now.
Thank you all so much, this has been the best stress I've ever been under in my whole life.
Alana, it has been great having you here with us.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
- Of course.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
Good luck.
Thank you.
This has been an amazing experience.
- It's me.
- Oh, there she is.
- Oh, my God.
- Are you okay? Dude, I knew it.
I just knew the Offt would get me offed, you know? I know that my family and especially my dad is gonna be so proud of me and I'm so excited for him to see the work that I have done here.
Face Off has given me the courage to believe in myself.