Face Off (2011) s05e11 Episode Script

Previously, on Face Off Roy's comedic ghost brought him his first win Hey! And Eddie was sent home.
Now just five artists remain, and tonight, they will delve into the world of lore and mysticism.
Oh, sweet.
I'm instantly excited.
Yes! But an unprecedented event leaves our artists in a state of shock.
- Everything okay? - I don't think so.
So the question is, now, what does this do about this challenge? It's a disaster on so many levels.
Why would you even go there? And the judges are forced to make a surprising decision.
Very tough decision this week.
Mm, horrible.
In the end, one will win a VIP trip from Kryolan Professional Makeup to one of their a 2013 Fiat 500, and $100,000.
Who will be the next great name in movie magic? Only one will win Face Off.
It's kind of weird, Eddie not being here this morning.
Yeah.
I miss his smile already.
Eddie is such a good person, and I'm gonna miss him smiling and always having something good to say.
He just-- he has such a great attitude, - you know what I mean? - Yeah.
Yo.
How you doing? - Not feeling so hot? - Mm-mmm.
Last night, after Eddie went home and I was on bottom with him, something really changed in me.
Being on bottom was weird.
I'm not having fun anymore.
I like it here.
I love all the challenges, but I'm also just really homesick.
What do you think you're gonna do? Maybe this challenge will wake me up.
I'm really gonna try and focus.
I want to put it all aside and just get today over with.
We're at Kenneth Hahn state park.
I don't know what it is, but it's cool.
There's McKenzie standing by all these giant stones, and it looks like Stonehenge, and I really have no idea what this challenge is gonna be, but I can't wait to find out.
- Hey, guys.
- Good morning.
From Mayan temples to Egyptian pyramids, ancient stone structures are covered in images depicting very different mythologies and showcasing traditions filled with magic and mystery.
The stones and symbols that you see here are no different and come from another very rich culture.
You'll be creating one of the most recognizable creatures seen in Norse mythology, dark elves.
Ah, yes! Sorry.
If there's one thing that I know really well, it's elves.
I'm gonna sound like the biggest nerd, but I've studied them extensively, and I think I might have an advantage on this particular challenge.
While elves have become popular in films like The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, they have roots in Norse mythology, like in the upcoming film Thor The Dark World.
The Norse tradition describes the use of runes, which are symbols that the Vikings believed would grant them special powers or abilities in battle.
This week, your spotlight challenge is to select one of these runes and use it to inspire a dark elf warrior that embodies the symbol's attributes.
Oh, sweet.
I love old, mythical stuff, so I'm instantly excited.
But of course, there's the catch.
I'm not gonna tell you what any of the symbols mean until after you've made your selections.
So we have no idea what it is that we're pickin'.
Right off the bat, I'm having a bad feeling about this.
Laura, you're up first.
Stand next to your selection.
Okay.
Laney.
Roy.
Tate.
Miranda.
Laney, you've selected "Eihwaz.
" It means immortality.
Tate, you have "Berkano.
" - It means regeneration.
- Wow.
Roy, you have "Laguz," and it means psychic powers.
Miranda, you have "Thurisaz," and it means chaos.
Laura, you have "Perthro.
" It means occult abilities.
All right, it's time to get started on your designs.
These rune stones should serve as fantastic inspiration for your dark elves.
Good luck, you guys.
I'll see you later at the lab.
Good-bye.
My rune means "occult abilities," which means magic.
In Nordic culture, they believed when you wrote a rune down, it would imbue that object with magic, so I'm going to try to incorporate the runes into the helm as if it's a magical helm.
It's gonna have armor, a corset, and of course, ears.
I'm feeling like I already did two dark elves.
I did the pixie with the pointy ears, and then an elf-like character on the seven deadly sins challenge, so I'm feeling kind of confused as to how I can make something different.
So when I see my symbol, it looks very Mayan, so I take inspiration immediately from the symbol itself, and I am going to make him this God-like warrior that everybody worships in a civilization that's already chaotic and war-driven.
So the rune I pick symbolizes immortality, so I want to keep it really young, and I want to give him lots of armor that'll look like human bones have been dipped in gold for the people that he has killed.
All right, everybody, let's head back to the lab! Whew.
Thank you.
We get back to the lab, and we have 5 1/2 hours today.
I'm not gonna go the route of doing the traditional cowl and then separate face piece.
I want to do it all in one piece and sculpt the face really, really thin so I can get the movement that I need, and the rune that I picked is "Laguz.
" It symbolizes psychic power.
The easiest way to convey psychic power is enlarged head.
I've seen The Lord Of The Rings, and so I know that elves are supposed to be human-like, so I'm thinking I can de-evolve them a little bit.
You know, maybe they came from a primate.
The rune that I selected symbolizes regeneration.
I want to do a female character.
She's the queen of her tribe of elves.
The regeneration is she selects the strongest male elves and breeds with them to create a stronger race.
Also they're metal smiths, so they're constantly around heat, and I want her to have this burnt-and-new flesh, like a snake skin, which is also a play on the regeneration.
I really don't want to go with the typical elf because usually, the judges are looking for us to do something different, and so my character is going to do have this Mayan headpiece.
And it's pretty much mandatory for an elf to have pointy ears, so I'm also gonna have to incorporate the ears.
I feel a tremendous amount of pressure with this challenge, more than any other, because I know a lot about dark elves.
That might actually hinder me from doing a good job, and that worries me tremendously.
I look over at Laney, and she's just kind of pushing her sculpture around.
She's not her inspired self.
I start sculpting the face, and I'm not even into it.
Like, I love my character's sketch, but I just don't want to be doing this.
Tate has already sculpted this most beautiful cowl, and Miranda's, like, halfway done with her cowl, and it looks amazing.
I can feel, like, my passion's just not there today.
- Laura? - Yeah? More elf-like quality, big ear or smaller ear? I want to make it to the finale, and this challenge is totally out of my element.
I couldn't tell you an elf from a dwarf from anything else.
I like the smaller one.
I've seen people dress as dark elves at conventions and things like that, but I'm not really into that genre.
Yeah, I think the big one's too orc-ish.
Yeah, yeah, there's a fine line between goblin and elf.
Yeah.
I don't know what's gonna happen with this makeup, so yeah, I'm worried about this one.
Gotta line up this ear.
Tate, where's Laney? Well, I'll just check.
I walk by the bathroom and I hear crying.
_ _ _ She's breaking down.
_ _ _ It sucks.
I don't know how to help her.
She just wants to be left alone.
Just give her some time.
- Hey, everything okay? - I-I don't think so.
Worried about her.
I don't know what's going on with Laney or if she's okay, but if she doesn't come back, I don't know if she can finish this makeup, and I think she'll be through.
Coming up I have to get my head back in the game.
I am disappointed in myself.
It's a disaster on so many levels.
Why would you even go there? Today's the first day of our dark elves challenge, and I'm gettin' worried.
Laney don't seem to be doing too well.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I just decide to just, like, give it one more shot.
So Laney comes back out, and she seems collected, and she starts back on her sculpture.
_ I'm fine.
I know that she's still going through things, but I'm happy that she's come back to her work.
Hey, guys, here for a walkthrough.
- Let's take a look.
- Ready? I got occult abilities.
I'm definitely going more traditional.
Probably do some scarification runes around her collar, maybe along the helm as well.
- What do these symbolize? - In most Celtic mythologies, they worship, like, deer and stags, and so I wanted to represent all of that.
You've got so much going on here that you want to be able for those to read.
- You can't paint everything dark.
- Okay.
I picked chaos.
I wanted to do something different than the typical elven armor for my character.
- Wow.
- Mm-hmm.
- My symbol looks like this - Mm-hmm.
And when I saw it, it felt very Mayan, so I was thinking I would do a Mayan warrior.
Interesting.
I chose regeneration, which led me to the queen of these dark elves.
She's responsible for the reproduction of the hive.
- What about color? - Yeah.
The flesh is gonna be black and crackly, and the metal itself, I wanted to go with sort of an antiqued bronze of that nature.
Well, that'll be a great contrast.
- Nice.
- Oh, cool.
Yeah, because you'll definitely see the difference between what's skin and what you have created as a helmet.
- Absolutely.
- Yeah.
I have "Laguz," and it is psychic power, so I enlarged the head to show that the brain is larger and has the psychic abilities.
You've got so much contour going on here that by going to, say, black, you're gonna lose a lot of your good detail, so you need to keep that on a lighter shade in this part of the face here.
I've got "Eihwaz.
" He is the dark elf of immortality.
I like what you're doing in the forehead and the nose, but as opposed to putting a lot of human face just over human face, do something to take it away from the model.
Okay, cool.
All right, everybody, we're heading out.
- Thank you! - Keep the clay goin'.
- Have a good one.
- Bye! What you doin', Tate? Ooh, that's pretty.
Thanks, man.
Ten minutes! Holy fuck, you sculpted that fast.
Oh, cool.
Traditional.
Maybe too traditional.
Time's up, everybody! Let's go home.
At the end of day one, I'm a little nervous.
There are some people in there taking their concepts in a different direction, and I'm staying so traditional that it might not be interesting.
So I'm leaving a lot of time tomorrow to experiment.
I have all the tools I need.
Now, I just need to figure out how to utilize them.
I wake up in the morning, and there's a note on the table.
My first reaction is maybe McKenzie left it and there's a new twist to this dark elf challenge.
What's that? Unfortunately, it's not that.
She's gone.
It's a letter from Laney saying that she's quit.
She didn't expect to stay here as long as she did.
I just have this decision in my head, right when I wake up, that I'm gonna be leaving today.
I just know that I can't stay any longer.
At this point, she'd pay $100,000 just to see her family again.
Wow.
It's hard being homesick, but, you know, I mean, you know what you sign up for whenever you come and do something like this.
- What's going on? - Laney left.
- Laney left? - Yup.
I'm sad that she walked away.
It's one of those experiences in life that most people will never have.
So the question is now, what does this do about this challenge? With Laney leaving, it creates a big issue.
Everybody gonna be safe this challenge, or are they gonna go ahead and eliminate somebody? We have no idea, and, I mean, my thought is, you know, just treat it like everything was normal, 'cause honestly, she's gone, but that's not my problem.
My problem is winning this challenge.
I'm gonna get dressed, 'cause - Yeah.
- We gotta be at the lab - in a little bit.
- Got a lot of work to do.
Day two in the lab, and we have 9 1/2 hours, and today is gonna be hard after finding this note from Laney.
I think there's a lot going through all of our heads, and I miss her already, but I have so much to do today, so I just got to keep moving forward and focus on what I need to do, so I have to start on this face.
- That's really sweet.
- Thank you.
I'm still a little confused about the whole Mayan direction, but hopefully, they're gonna like it, 'cause I'm not changing it now.
I have to finish my sculpts.
I need to get those sculpts in the molding room as fast as possible so that I can get them ready for foam, 'cause I got a lot of other stuff to do.
I'm a little off my game today, to be honest.
Laney's work is still there.
It's a bit, um-- I don't know, it's like a headstone or something, but I have to get my head back in the game.
I finish up my sculpts and I go back to the molding room and start molding.
- Wow, that looks sick.
- Thanks, dude.
I really want to get the mold done so I can go ahead and run maybe, like, a poly foam copy of it so I can start trying to work my paint scheme out.
I want to make a lot of scarification prosthetics in order to imbue her with a sense of magic, so I start working on my Pros-Aide transfers.
All you have to do is sculpt something on a flat surface and then make a mold out of silicone.
Once the silicone sets, you pour Pros-Aide, which is the medical adhesive that we use, inside the compartment.
You put it in a refrigerator, and once that's sat for 24 hours, it can look like some really kickass-looking scars.
It's a little difficult to know where to go with this challenge, and I'm just fiddling with this cowl over and over again, and I know I'm taking way too long.
It's like I keep putting things on and then wiping them off, and I don't like anything I'm doing.
All of a sudden, I realize I am the only one who's not in the mold room.
This mold is gonna take quite a while, and I've never been so scared.
I don't know if I'm gonna have anything to put on the stage.
_ It's day two, and I'm just so behind.
Everyone else is in the mold room.
I need to start molding, or else I won't have anything to put on the stage.
I just start molding this faster than I've ever molded anything in my life.
Like, I am literally throwing Ultracal at the mold.
I can't run this in latex and poly foam.
This piece has to move.
Okay.
My poly foam is done and it looks great, so I can do a little, you know, paint test on it.
The judges have really been giving me a lot of crap about having rough paint jobs, and so I want to give 'em a lot of detail in this.
Down to the last minute, huh? Oh, my God.
It's only a few minutes before the end of the day and there's no way that I'm gonna get this cowl finished.
All right, guys, that's time.
Let's get out of here.
So now, I have to figure out somehow to make this cowl work with latex.
Tomorrow's gonna be the hardest application day I've ever had by far, and I don't even know if I'm gonna have a piece to show the judges, and at this point, I am pretty much sure that I'm going home.
All right, let's see what we got.
Application day, we have four hours in the lab and one hour in last looks, and I'm going to have to get that facial prosthetic and that cowl down as quickly as possible, 'cause there is a lot of painting to do.
Hello! What's up, girl? Hey, Kirk.
How you doing? So I'm extremely behind today.
And I need help opening a mold.
Thank God Vince is here, thank God he's strong, because I am so in trouble today and I physically can't lift-- even lift this mold, much less open it on my own.
Keep pulling.
Awesome.
Fuck yes.
Here, I'll show you how this power washer works.
I feel terrible to be putting him in this position, but I only have one shot at this now, because I'm doing it today, and if I mess it up, it's not gonna work at all.
You can just hang on to that.
We're just gonna carry him in.
Thank God he's such a good sport.
I notice that, you know, Miranda is running around and so is her model.
Here, you can-- Yeah, you can do that.
And as thick as possible.
Maybe could you blow-dry this one? I'm pretty sure he'll be a contestant on season eight, 'cause he's learning so much in the lab today.
Is this your first season here? Yeah.
- How do you like it? - Oh, I love it.
I'm right on schedule.
Let's do this.
Let's get it on there.
The piece, you know, goes on fairly easy, and it's almost flawless, but I don't know if it's a dark elf.
Hmm.
The Pros-Aide transfers that I had made for the arms are not as stiff as I had intended.
These didn't work out.
I'm going to have to physically paint them on when I get to last looks.
It's a good thing I have backup options for everything I do, 'cause otherwise, I would be capital "F.
" Could you start putting on your costume? Let me get you into your body texture.
In order to achieve the regenerative snake-like texture, I put down a base layer of prosthetic adhesive, and then I smear a wet layer of powder over the top of it, and then I take a hair dryer and I dry the moisture out of it, which causes it to crack and spread.
_ _ Then you can powder it with charcoal power.
It grabs in in the cracks, so you just have this really successful-looking cracked finish.
Try not to bend your arms too much until that dries, okay? - Like, my whole hand too? - Uh, you can wait on the hand, just 'cause you might need to use it.
At this point, really all I can do is laugh.
I mean, I even have Vince trying to paint his own legs.
Vince, like, has done as much of this as I have, and I feel like a failure.
Ten minutes! Ten minutes left! Help me grab 'em by the door.
That's time, everybody! I really am scared at this point.
It's not painted.
It's not even blended.
This was my idea, originally.
I'm going home tonight, but I'm not gonna just give up on the makeup, because that's not who I am.
I'm gonna do the best I can and hope for the best.
Coming up That's really messed up.
I can't find my airbrush compressor.
- Yeah, that's really good.
- It looks fantastic.
If you try to do that to a director, you won't be there tomorrow.
We're at last looks, and we got one hour left.
All that I really got to do is touch-ups.
I still have to paint all of the symbols all over my elf, and that's gonna take up the majority of my time.
Ugh, it's stressful.
I can barely pull this cowl out of the mold, and I'm trying to cut the seam off as quickly as I can.
I think I've set a record for most behind ever for last looks.
This is a disaster.
That's really messed up.
I can't find my airbrush compressor.
Now, I have to hand-paint everything, and it's definitely hurting me, but I have to make with what I have.
I'm freaking out.
That's time! Fuck.
I never thought I would ever do a makeup that was this unfinished.
I'm so embarrassed.
It's the worst makeup I have ever, ever done.
Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
Tonight, one of you will be eliminated.
Let's first say hello to our talented judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Makeup Effects Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
Good evening, guys.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Three-time Oscar-winning makeup artist Ve Neill.
Hi, everybody.
- Hey, Ve.
- Hey.
Creature and concept designer Neville Page.
- Hello.
- Hey, Neville.
This week, your spotlight challenge was to choose a Norse rune and create a dark elf warrior that embodies the symbol's attributes.
Let's see what you've come up with.
I really, really love the fact that my dark elf is a full character from top to bottom.
She looks beautiful.
She looks elegant, so I'm excited to hear what the judges have to say.
I'm really happy and impressed with the overall look, the silhouette.
I think I have one of the best ones.
This is so painful.
I don't want to look.
I just want to go to a different place in my head and pretend that this is not mine and I didn't do this.
It looks a little un-proportioned.
He's got a big head, so I'm concerned about that, but overall, I'm happy with the way that it looks.
Judges, it's time to take a closer look at our elven warriors.
Look at how beautiful that blends up around there.
Is this all one piece? Yeah, it's a face piece, and then the cowl glues down to it, so she gets all those nice blending edges.
- Man, that's really good.
- Yeah.
That foam edge there is so nice.
Look at on the nose and above her eye.
Oh, yeah, it goes down the nose.
- Can't even tell.
- Seamless.
Really solid too, she's not getting any rub on anything, - it's sealed nicely.
- Yeah, it's good.
Very clean.
Thank you.
This is beautifully weathered.
- These colors here are great.
- Yeah.
I really, really, really love the way that the color of the makeup goes into the color of the armor.
I think the armor could have more color on it - Yeah, yeah.
- But they work so well together.
Open your mouth for us.
- Can we just see that bottom? - Oh, that's cool.
- And that is you, right? - No, no.
Okay, thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
Didn't finish up the paint job.
The gold comes down-- I thought I saw that from far away-- like, onto the ear for some reason.
- Like, what the-- - Is it part of the same sculpt? - Interesting.
- Is it separated? - All over it? - I don't know.
What the hell was she doing this week? I don't know.
- Can you turn sideways? - Sideways? Yeah.
Oh, no, don't look at the back.
Oh, yeah, bizarre.
It's so bad.
I am totally, totally disgusted and disappointed in myself.
It looked bad from afar, but it is inexcusable up close, and this will be my first time on the bottom and probably my last.
Who made your favorite elven warrior tonight? Tell us on Twitter using #FaceOff.
- Yeah, bizarre.
- Yeah.
The whole thing is quite bizarre.
I don't understand the mousy shape of the nose.
Turn all the way around for us.
Okay.
Eesh.
I screwed up so badly, and there's only four of us here, so there's no scraping by.
I know I'm going home.
- Okay.
- All right.
What are we looking at? I mean, basically, it's just this head, really.
I mean, clearly, he fabricated this.
- Yeah, he did that too.
- Yeah.
It's a good silhouette.
This is a hairpiece that wasn't even laid in.
Those are all hair pieces.
I do actually like the form language, it's just the proportions.
I just hope that the judges take it for what it is.
I'm happy with it, so I guess we'll find out.
The judges would like to speak with each of you to learn more about your work.
Laura, please step up.
Laura, tell us about your character.
The rune that I was given meant occult abilities.
I translated occult ability in that I would put runes on various parts of the armor to imbue my warrior with magic.
I think it's stunning.
You understood the concept so well that it allowed you to flow right into the construction of your character, and it shows.
Tell us why you chose that color.
I wanted to get that dark elf aesthetic in there, so-- because they're underground, the skin tone is a light lavender.
- It's beautifully done.
- Thank you.
My ignorance really is enjoying your awareness, and also how you back up those choices.
Your intellect, and the way you think through why she would be that color, is spot-on.
Thank you.
One of my favorite things on this makeup is the aesthetic of that tribal tattooing you did.
I love the swirling effect of it.
It's so graceful and really subtle and really pretty.
- Beautiful makeup.
- Thank you.
Laura, please step back.
Roy, please come forward.
Tell us about your elf and your concept behind your creation, please.
The rune that I chose was "Laguz," which is psychic power, which is the reason for the enlarged head.
This, to me, doesn't really work as an elf.
It looks more like a creature as opposed to something that has more of a humanistic form.
Because you made his head so big, you didn't adapt the rest of his physique to carry that big, giant head around, so it's made his body look very small.
It's a pretty cool makeup, I just don't think it's for this challenge, honey.
Okay.
I think of the elf almost as a toy, and this is a dullsville action figure.
I appreciate the concept of the paint technique that you were trying to apply here.
I think that that was right thinking.
That's the good part.
What in the hell caused you to make a decision to go so far away from the very core of this challenge? You were asked to do an elf.
I'm not familiar with dark elves.
You know the idea of what an elf looks like, long ears, pointy nose.
If you do that to a director-- he asks for an elf and you give him this-- you won't be there tomorrow.
My apologies.
Roy, please step back.
Tate, you're next.
- Hi, guys.
- Hi, Tate.
So tell us about your elf and your rune choice.
Well, my rune symbolized regeneration, so I decided to go with my interpretation of what would be the queen of the dark elves.
It's her job to find the healthiest specimen and sire the rest of their tribes.
'Cause I know that they're master metal workers, they're constantly around heat, I really wanted to do the dry, cracked skin and to make it look like the skin regenerates.
It looks fantastic.
The helmet design that you've done, I love the fact that it's starting to almost integrate into her face, and some of the details that you have, like this flaky, dry skin, it looks authentic at a distance, even up close.
You have a very successful makeup in here.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
I absolutely adore the fact that you've taken your rune and allowed it to motivate you to go so much further with the character.
You were able to do all this cool stuff with her body.
I love what you've done with the armor.
I appreciate it.
I think the choice of that gorgeous red against all this silver is just really cool.
That a great decision that was.
She looks really dark.
She's sexy, she's strong.
She really says "dark, warrior elf" to me.
Thank you very much, Ve.
Tate, please step back.
Let's talk to Miranda.
Miranda, tell us about your character and how you integrated the rune.
Well, my symbol was chaos, and I was really initially inspired by the actual symbol itself.
It had a Mayan vibe to it.
It's obviously very incomplete.
What happened this week? Why is this such a wreck? I-I don't really have a good answer.
I feel like I just really messed up this week, and I'm really disappointed in myself.
There is what I'm going to kindly call an inadequate decision regarding the ears and their support of the headdress.
It seems to me like you've done it so that you could split the mold with a two-piece so that it's the ears and the helmet and the-- it-- Horrible decision.
The planes that the ears lie upon no longer work at all, anatomically.
This is kind of a blue-ish green makeup that I really don't like.
Why would you even go there knowing that you couldn't finish this color? I mean, you didn't even get the base color on him all the way today.
I'm just so disappointed.
You've done so many awesome makeups, and now, all of a sudden, you put this out here.
It's a disaster on so many levels that you've already addressed and accepted, but I don't want you to lose sight of the successes that actually have occurred within it.
The overall sculpt, pretty good, but it's just a sketch.
If this was due on the day as a final design, camera-ready, you're screwed.
I feel really bad about this.
I just hope that I get the chance to continue.
Miranda, please step back.
Sorry, girl.
All right, guys, the judges have heard what you have to say.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room while they deliberate.
- Thank you, guys.
- Thank you, guys.
All right, judges, let's talk about the looks you liked the most this week.
Why don't we start with Laura? I particularly like her intelligence behind her choices.
Her justification is so spot-on.
I especially liked that sort of tribal paint job she did.
Absolutely perfectly blended.
One thing I think was lacking was her ability to integrate her rune.
It was there in an incredibly just basic, rudimentary way.
Yeah, I don't think it had a real dark connotation to me.
I-- It sort of just felt sort of elfen.
All right, let's move on to Tate.
For me, that is a dark elf.
The skin was dark.
It was aged.
The fact that he used his rune to create another level of the makeup, to make it look like cracking flesh, was brilliant.
What a great way to integrate the rune.
That, to me, was a really good-looking, complete character.
All right, let's move on to the looks you liked the least this week.
Why don't we start with Roy? It was an interesting design for a completely different challenge altogether.
He did do a pretty decent job of painting that thing, and at least he finished his character.
It just doesn't matter how good the paint is on something.
When it doesn't even fit into the challenge, it's sort of the end of the conversation for me.
All right, let's move on to Miranda.
Oh, man, I don't know what happened to her this week.
- Wow.
- What was she doing? It was an atrocity.
That felt so atypical, to be so incredibly indecisive.
How is it that she mismanaged her time so badly to allow just a few minutes to paint it? It is one of, if not the, worst time management issues we've ever seen on the show.
She had a good idea, but guys, that's as far as it went.
All right, so now, with Laney's departure, it begs the question, what happens now? Since we have somebody who has left, we've essentially got a free elimination.
Do we end up allowing someone to progress even though they've done less than acceptable - with their makeup this week? - Right.
That seems unfair as well.
If you do a substandard makeup, typically, what we do is let them go.
It's a very, very, very tough decision this week.
- Mm.
- Horrible.
All right then, judges, have you made your decisions? Very difficult one, but yes, we have.
Let's bring 'em back out.
Glenn, tell us about the top looks.
Laura, we love how well-thought-out all of your creative decisions were, and we were blown away by the quality of your edge work tonight.
Thank you.
Tate, the shapes in your armor were so cool, and your character's story was both obvious and impactful - at first glance.
- Thank you.
Glenn, who is the winner of this challenge? The winner of tonight's challenge is Glenn, who is the winner of this challenge? The winner of tonight's challenge is Tate.
Wow.
We love how you incorporated the rune by adding a second level to your makeup.
- Smart decision.
- Thank you very much.
I'm really blown away.
I've won three challenges and I'm feeling pretty good.
Tate, congratulations.
You and Laura can head back to the makeup room.
Thank you, guys.
Unfortunately, that means Roy and Miranda, you are on the bottom this week.
Please step forward.
All right, Glenn, tell us about the bottom looks.
Roy, the proportions and sculpture of the head were way off, and the design decisions were wholly inappropriate for this challenge.
Miranda, you really struggled with time management this week, and it's almost impossible for us to get past the fact that it was so unfinished.
So who is going home tonight? The person going home tonight is No one is going home tonight.
Thank you, guys.
In light of Laney's departure, you will move forward this week for one reason only.
You did not give up.
We cannot express to you strongly enough how hard you both need to work next week to redeem yourselves.
- Thank you guys so much.
- Thank you.
All right, guys, that means you are both safe and can head back to the makeup room.
- Thank you very much.
- Get ready to kill it, guys.
We will.
I deserve to go home this week for that disaster that I put forward on the stage, so I'm just thankful that I have one more chance, and this one's got to count.
Well, you got us both for one more challenge.
It's a huge relief, you know, knowing that neither one of us are gonna go home tonight.
Oh, my God.
The top four is where I made it in season three and I'm not gonna be in that spot again.
It's really exciting that we're the final four.
I feel honored to be here with you guys.
Here's to second chances.
That's right.
That works for me.
The person that doesn't give up is the one that will make it through, you know, to the final three, and "Quit" is not in my vocabulary.
Congratulations to everyone.