Face Off (2011) s07e04 Episode Script
Twisted Trees
I love it.
I've never seen anything like this.
Previously on Face Off Stella's incredible alien brought her to victory.
- Thank you.
- And Gwen was sent home.
Now, 12 artists remain, and tonight, they'll face an extraordinary twist.
There is one more thing you need to know.
Oh, my God! But not everybody will thrive.
I started noticing some cracks.
This is the end of the line for me.
It's a triumphant victory if it was for an office Halloween party.
In the end, only one will win a VIP trip from Kryolan Professional Make-Up to one of their a brand-new 2014 Fiat 500, and $100,000.
Welcome to Face Off.
So what's it like to win? - It's pretty awesome.
- Yeah? Mm-hmm.
I'm not gonna lie.
I was just glad to not be in that bottom circle again.
- Yeah, it sucks.
- Finally.
I've been on the bottom a couple times.
The last makeup was safe, which is good, but I definitely want to show everyone that I can do better than this.
- Oh.
- Oh.
Ooh! We're walking into the lab, and all the models were standing up on these pillars in really elaborate costumes and capes, and we're all really, really excited.
Well, as you've probably guessed, today's foundation challenge is all about superheroes.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
Before I give you the details, I want to introduce you to one of the biggest names working in makeup and special effects today.
He's helped create some of Hollywood's biggest superhero movies, like Fantastic Four, X-Men The Last Stand, and the movie that nabbed him an Academy Award nomination, Hellboy II.
Yes.
Please give a warm welcome to Mike Elizalde.
I'm freaking out.
Like, I am a huge, huge Hellboy fan, and then, for him to walk in, I am super stoked.
Great to finally have you here on Face Off.
- It's great to be here.
- All right.
Well, some of the most classic heroes of all time are intrinsically linked to their capes and costumes.
What they wear really defines who they are as superheroes.
That brings us to today's foundation challenge.
You'll each choose one of these incredible costumes and create the superhero that wears it.
- Nice.
- Yeah.
So Mike, what are you gonna be looking for in their final makeups? I want to see integration with the costume that they're working with.
Put your best effort into telling a complete story.
All right, guys.
The winner of this foundation challenge will earn immunity.
On my "Go," I want you to choose your model and get to work.
You have two hours, and your time starts now.
Hi.
Let's go get you superhero-ed up.
Right here.
I go right to these knee-high glitter boots and hot-pink cape.
My superhero's name is Deadly Diamond.
She is hard and beautiful as diamonds.
The piece doesn't fit her face exactly, so I rip parts away from it and start creating some of that diamond-shape and that cracked pattern.
Perfect.
I look at my model, and the most prominent feature on her costume is the huge protrusion of feathers sticking out of the shoulders of her cape, and I find this really cool feathered bird mask.
And I realize that with the way that the piece is designed, doesn't look like it should be a part of her.
So it works perfectly.
It's a mask.
I want that immunity real bad.
I'm really excited because I'm a huge comic book nerd.
My character's an alien assassin who comes to Earth and falls in love with earthlings.
I'm using this skullcap and this cotton underlay to create a new head shape.
He's Intensitron.
Part man, part machine, all intensity.
I'm gonna bring the color scheme up, do some metallics and some blues.
Intense.
Just something about the purple man that appeals to me.
So my superhero is The Camo-Lord he can change his skin to any color or texture.
I use Kryolan Aqua Colors on the face as a base and then some airbrushing.
Two hours goes by really frickin' quick.
You got 30 minutes, we're at the 30-minute mark.
That's it.
Time! Brushes down.
- Hey, Doc, how are you? - How's it going? Hi, Doc.
All right, so tell us about what direction you went in with your superhero.
All right, so this is Paul Fincher.
He is zookeeper by day, birdcage by night.
It feels to me like he's wearing just a mask.
It should carry over into his skin as well.
But other than that, I think your paint job's really well done.
That means a lot.
Huge fan.
I really like what you did with the layering of color.
It looks like you took a lot of time in creating depth to a very dark makeup.
I might have done a little bit more with the lower half of the face, but I think what you've done looks very nice.
- Thank you.
- So this is Karma.
She's an assassin on her home planet.
This is really, really elegant.
I think your use of contouring is beautiful, and the lashes look great.
Thanks very much.
I was inspired by the collar to do the head shape.
Also it symbolizes cat ears.
I think it's really, really beautiful.
It's tough to do black makeup, and I like the way that you augmented the highlights by using silver, that's a really nice choice.
There are really some amazing superheroes in the room.
It would be so cool to win, but everyone's is really amazing.
It could go either way.
All right, Mike.
How do you think our artists did today? I think they did an amazing job.
Thank you.
Okay, so who created your favorite makeups? Vince, I really love the way that you used layering in your airbrushing to give your character an organic feel.
- Thank you.
- And Rachael.
Very seductive design, beautiful contouring, and good choice of colors.
Very well done.
Who is the winner of today's challenge? The winner of today's challenge is Rachael.
You've created a complete character which told me a story which I believed.
- Well done.
- Thanks very much.
Rachael, congratulations.
You have earned immunity in the next spotlight challenge.
I am really excited to win.
Mike was so nice! Just having his feedback on my piece is really great.
I will see you tomorrow for your next spotlight challenge.
- Bye.
- Thanks, guys.
- Nice to meet you.
- Thank you.
- We're back.
- Whoo! We walk into the lab, and we see McKenzie with this huge tree.
I take a lot of inspiration from nature.
So I'm pretty excited to see what's in store.
- Hey, guys.
- Hi.
Let's get to this.
Films like Lord Of The Rings, The Wizard Of Oz, and The Evil Dead portrayed trees as intelligent beings that possess humanlike traits.
This week's spotlight challenge is to create a larger-than-life tree character inspired by a unique tree species.
That's cool.
I'm absolutely freaking out.
I've been wanting to make a tree character for a really long time.
All right, so we have banyan tree, a sequoia tree, weeping willow, white birch tree, bristlecone pine tree, and silk floss tree.
For this challenge, you'll be working together in teams of two.
This time, you get to pick your own partner.
Ooh.
Go ahead and stand with your new teammate.
Yeah, sure.
_ Jason and I have both been either safe or in the bottom on every challenge, so we're gonna combine our forces of being terrible and make something awesome.
All right, time to pick the trees that will inspire your designs.
Doc and Jason? - Bristlecone pine.
- Sasha and Stella.
The white birch tree.
- Vince and Damien.
- Giant sequoia.
- Yeah.
- Dina and Rachael.
The banyan.
George and Keaghlan.
The silk floss.
There is one more thing you need to know.
Ooh.
In each of the movies that I mentioned earlier, the trees were either evil or angry.
So I want you to turn your characters into twisted trees.
- Nice.
- Yeah.
Now to help guide your dark transformations, you've each been assigned a common malady suffered by trees.
Oh, that's cool.
Doc and Jason, your malady is the lightning strike.
Cig and Drew, your tree has pests.
Nice.
Dina and Rachael, your malady is fungus.
Vince and Damien, your tree has rot.
Sasha and Stella, you've got burl.
This is so cool.
George and Keaghlan, your malady is choking vines.
- Yeah.
- Cool.
Keep in mind that the judges will be looking for both the tree and the malady to be reflected in your final makeups.
So select your models and get started on your designs.
I'll be by later on with my dad to check in on your progress.
- See you later.
- Thank you.
Bye.
- Bristlecone pine.
- Hell yeah.
Jason and I picked the bristlecone pine.
Our malady is lightning, so we've got the coolest tree.
We probably have the coolest malady, and we're gonna create something awesome.
Maybe one big knot going off to the side.
So we decided to have him be the guardian of the desert.
And he's very old and grumpy and lazy.
Whenever he's not doing his job right, the elder gods will strike him with lightning.
I definitely think-- just keep going more asymmetrical - with the profile.
- Okay.
This is, like, my dream challenge.
I love incorporating nature into my makeups.
We get the banyan, and our malady is fungus, which is amazing.
Since these are supposed to be twisted trees, maybe we include an aspect of twisting.
Oh, yeah.
The fungus will be coming out of cracked bark, kind of moving with the flow of the tree, so Yeah.
This is gonna be beautiful.
Sasha and I pick the white birch tree, and our malady is burls, which are, like, tumor growths.
So I start on the face, and Sasha starts on the cowl.
Our concept is a sacred Native American tree that is sad that the white man scared all his people away, and he starts growing all these burls because of that.
Also, birch trees have eyes and are known as the watching trees.
So we want to put eyes all over his body as if he's always watching.
I love these branches so much.
I think it's kind of sick.
All right, I'm gonna get a block of clay and start carving this out.
I don't really have a solid concept for a head or a face on this tree.
So I give Vince the go-ahead to start designing that aspect of it.
We picked the giant sequoia tree, and our malady is tree rot.
I would really love to make a zombie tree.
The top of his head is gonna have a really angry face on it, big hands with huge, you know, bent fingers, and his feet are gonna be also giant and, like, big stumps.
That's cool, man.
Hey, guys.
We're here to check on your trees.
- Hello.
- How are you? - Hi.
- Hello.
He is this twisted, broken tree who's in pain, so we are trying to show the twist of how he's grown.
You know, when I first looked at it, I thought it was vines or a fire.
It's like different directions going everywhere.
I am totally freaking out right now.
We just spent hours sculpting this thing, and I was excited about it, and now we have to start over.
I'm worried because Rachael has immunity, so if we are on bottom looks, I could be going home for this.
Coming up It's breaking.
The more we pry, the more cracks we're getting.
- Is it fixable? - Nope.
- I'm fucked.
- I actually enjoy it immensely.
It's devoid and crippling.
It's like different directions going everywhere, which isn't really what your research is.
Mr.
Westmore tells us that our design doesn't really resemble a banyan tree.
I thought it was vines or a fire.
We put a lot of work into this, but if he doesn't think it looks like a banyan tree, then the judges aren't going to.
We have to start over.
All right, so you have the silk floss.
We have the silk floss.
And the malady is choking vines.
Choking vines.
So explain the concept.
Our character was an environmentalist perched up in the top of this tree to stop it from being chopped down.
So when the tree fell, her and the tree combined and grew into this warrior of the forest.
So the face-- we wanted to incorporate the spines into her face and kind of create a brow with it.
Try to just take a little bit of the human out of it.
Maybe filling in a little under here so it doesn't have the sharp jaw sticking out.
Okay.
So you picked the weeping willow.
Yes.
And it's infested with bugs.
So our story is that it was an earth spirit, and she became infested with these bugs.
She's all draped in these leaves, and people hear someone crying, so they come up to the tree.
She snatches them up, and the bugs come out of all her holes.
And then they're eating the people.
To show the bug, are you gonna have actually little holes? 'Cause the bugs are, you know, like termites.
Yeah, I was just started to put in some divots.
- Yeah, make 'em big enough.
- Yeah.
We have a big, big sculpture that sort of resembles the sequoia, but then the face itself-- it's got the rot on the face.
When you get this out in foam, pull a little foam out of it.
It'll give the model more freedom to be able to twist their head.
Yeah.
The bristlecone pine's got these amazing trunks towards the bottom, so we've come up with these cool boots to go over top.
The bristlecone pine-- there's just so much more - Jagged edges.
- going on with it than what I'm seeing what you're doing.
Yeah.
You haven't gone far enough for your design.
All right.
He's kind of an old, craggy man.
You know, you're getting real human in this.
You don't have to show a mouth so much or even the nasolabial folds.
It's not a person in a tree.
This is the personification of a living tree.
Okay.
All right, everybody.
- Good luck with your trees.
- Good luck.
- Bye.
- Thank you.
- Bye-bye.
- Thank you.
Our malady is bug infestation, and Mr.
Westmore mentioned that we should put some of the evidence of the bug infestation on the sculpts.
So I'm gonna sculpt bug trails into the chest area while drew is sculpting the texture slab that we can use for the arms and the legs.
And then, we really need to get started fabricating the willow branches, which is really important because we've got to figure out how to distribute the weight properly.
I like 'em.
Let's look at this again.
I think Dina's very nervous about the immunity, and now, we are completely redesigning every aspect of what we've been working on.
_ _ My first face had a lot of horizontal designs, but once we got that curveball from Mr.
Westmore, I decided to change that completely and have vertical branches instead.
- This is really depressing.
- I know, I know.
I was hoping I could get it finished today, and then, tomorrow, as soon as I get here, - we can open it.
- Dude, just-- - as thick as you can make it, and then-- - That's what I'm trying to do.
At the end of the day, I'm pretty worried the leg mold is not thick enough, and I know I'm gonna have to come back to it tomorrow.
Okay, that's time.
We're now behind for day two.
I have been in the bottom every challenge.
It's just not a good spot to be in.
I'm starting to get extremely worried.
Oh, it smells like foam latex in here.
Sweet.
It's day two of our tree challenge, and we have ten hours in the lab.
Yesterday, I re-sculpted the face, so today, we're gonna have to finish sculpting the cowl and maybe do some hands, chest piece, and we'll see about a neck.
We have a lot of work to do today.
Yeah, we need to add something here.
- How's it looking? - Fine and dandy.
How's our face? Edges look really nice, - that's for sure.
- Yeah.
We have our foam latex pieces that we sculpted yesterday, and they look beautiful.
So now, we have all of day two for fabrication.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna start cutting up some flowers while the latex dries.
All right.
The tree-- it has this very, like, feminine kind of curve to it, so we were gonna fabricate this pencil skirt out of latex to do this.
I sculpt-- it's called a gang mold.
So that I have a mold of, like, 30 spikes, and I can just pass latex in that.
And within 10 minutes, I've got 30 spikes that are ready to go wherever they need to.
Can you think of anything else that's more pressing? Um, I don't know.
Maybe just dance.
Doc is finished with the leg mold, and I get the chest, back, and cowl finished.
It's the biggest sculpture I've ever done, and now, I have the biggest mold I've ever made to make.
I'm probably gonna need your help moving the mannequin.
While I'm molding the chest, Doc is molding the arms.
We're both a little bit worried about time management, but hopefully, we can get it all done.
Hey, Drew.
I think it's ready to go.
Let's do it.
The stone on the bodysuit mold has completely hardened, and it's ready to open.
Fuck.
I broke it.
We're having a lot of trouble getting the mold actually popped open.
We started noticing some cracks Shit.
And we start noticing some more cracks.
What the fuck happened? The more we pry, the more cracks we're getting.
- Oh, oh.
- What's happening? It's breaking across the chest.
I'm getting worried at this point.
If we don't get this mold open and ready for foam today, we won't have anything.
Why are you stuck? We're in a lot of trouble.
It's breaking.
It's day two of our twisted tree challenge, and me and Drew are having trouble opening our mold.
- All right.
Stop.
- It's stuck here somewhere.
I'm starting to get a little worried right now because we really need to get this mold popped and get right to fabricating willow branches.
Look at that.
Finally get the mold open, and it's definitely a relief.
But we've lost a lot of time.
All right, you go fabricate.
- I'll handle this.
- Are you sure? - Yes.
- All right.
- Very sure.
- All right.
I immediately get started on fabricating the branches of the weeping willow tree.
I'm going to make four large branches that are gonna protrude from the prosthetic in the back.
Once you see it start to kind of, like, wiggle on you, that's your best point.
Birch trees have bark that peels off like paper.
To create that look, I'm taking L200, and I cut some shapes into it, and I curled them with the heat gun.
Look, Sasha.
Oh, my God! We also have to make hands, so Sasha makes burl hands out of poly foam.
_ _ _ _ There's no way that they're gonna come off the hands without us completely tearing them apart.
This is not good.
_ I'm very frustrated, but I'm just gonna have to figure something out.
Yeah.
- Okay.
- Ooh.
See, that right there is almost just perfect for this reddish color that's in there.
_ That's why I'm mixing other colors in it, and this is why I said it was not the exact.
Damien definitely wants to go more sequoia red color with it.
Our malady is tree rot, so I want to go a little bit more grayed-out, dead zombie tree.
It just needs to get a little bit darker.
But it dries a different color than what you're looking.
We're not quite in sync, so I'm a little bit worried about it.
It could make or break us.
I decided to carve my hands out of mattress foam.
It's not looking beautiful, but burls aren't beautiful.
And at least now I feel like I'm on the right track.
I'm gonna keep going.
Hit me.
Aww.
Time is just whittling away, and I go to open the first arm.
I try and lift, and-- Oh, come on.
It's just breaking along the edges.
And there it goes.
It just completely breaks into, like, four different pieces.
We might not be getting the arms.
- Why not? - They just keep breaking.
This is just a mess.
That's time, everyone! Brushes down! - Eh? - Eh.
This is the end of the line for me.
- I'm out.
- No, it's not.
Time runs out, and at this point, I'm already packing my bags in my head.
We don't have the arms.
That was my responsibility.
I sculpted those.
I molded them.
I broke the mold.
It's my fault.
- Go on ahead.
- Go, go, go, go.
It's application day.
We have four hours in the lab and one hour at last looks.
Things are gonna be crazy.
Okay, that can be glued.
A little bit of a tear, but that looks pretty good.
Look.
Check it out.
What's that? We have a very bad second skin on our cowl.
Second skin is where the outside of your foam piece isn't attached, but it really resembles the rot texture that we sculpted into our cowl originally.
- That actually looks good.
- Yeah, like rot.
You could do the rot right there.
Oh, yeah.
So we decide to turn all of our second skinning spots into rot, which I'm hoping doesn't come back to bite us in the ass later.
- Cool.
Yeah.
Right on.
- That's awesome.
- I'm Vince.
- Cig.
So you're gonna be the silk floss tree.
George and I have to apply the skirt, apply the latex patches from her shoulder to her fingertips.
We also have to apply our face piece and head dress as well.
I look around, and everybody has very, very different makeups than ours, but I'm hoping that it makes us stand out in a great way.
If I got to go home, I want to go home on a makeup that I had fun with, and I've had a lot of fun.
Me, too.
This really looks like peeling birch.
- I love it.
- Yeah, it really does.
We used brown as our base color and then dry-brushed white all over.
Our tree is totally coming to life.
The colors in it and the eyes are popping-- like, really looking awesome.
Doc and I get the cowl and torso on our model, and I take a chip brush and just start brushing on that brown base coat and then come up with the lighter brown highlights on top of it.
And 'cause the arms did not come out, we have to find a way to cover everything.
But luckily, I have a robe that I can cut up and glue down on top of him.
The sculpt bulks out.
The arms are covered.
He looks cohesive.
I just hope it's good enough.
_ How much time? Ten.
Oh, fuck.
Time's almost up.
We have all of our prosthetics applied and painted.
So when we get over there, we're gonna attach your branches, and they're gonna come out above you.
Guys, that's time.
- Brushes down.
- Yeah.
It's a risk for us to apply at last looks, but without the branches, she won't read as a weeping willow at all.
So we have to make sure that we get 'em done and done right.
Coming up We need to focus on the paint.
It's looking very hokey.
Stay together, girl.
I don't know what happened.
It's awe-inspiring.
There are so many missed opportunities here.
Let's go.
Let's go.
We get to last looks, and we have an hour left to complete our tree.
They should come out in a two-top.
Okay.
Drew's putting on the branches while I'm touching up the paint.
I'm worried that if we don't get this tree canopy, there's nothing about the makeup that says "weeping willow.
" Perfect.
_ We notice that some of his legs were showing.
- What do you need? - The big piece of pine needles.
So we bring in some more of the green pine to make it look like it's all intentional.
And I'm just thinking, "Oh, my God.
We may have pulled it off.
" _ _ _ I'm still questioning the hands in my head, but the character looks amazing.
We need to focus around the costume, getting it all black.
We're frantically painting.
Time is running out, and it's just too bright.
It looks very hokey.
So we start darkening that dye with some blacks and some browns.
- It popped way better like that.
- Did it? So we're looking pretty good.
All right, guys.
Time, guys.
- Awesome, awesome, awesome.
- Kick ass.
At the end of last looks, I cannot believe that Cig and I have managed to create not just a tree creature, but a tree.
I think we've got a really good chance of hitting top looks with this makeup.
Please, just stay together, girl.
Yeah, right? Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
Tonight, one of you will be eliminated.
First, let's say hello to our talented judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Make-Up Effects Studio, - Glenn Hetrick.
- Good evening, guys.
- Good evening.
- Hey, Glenn.
Oscar-winning makeup artist, Lois Burwell.
Good evening, all of you.
Hi, Lois.
And creature and concept designer, - Neville Page.
- Hello.
- Hi, Neville.
- All right, guys.
This week, your spotlight challenge was to create a twisted tree character based on a unique tree species and malady.
Let's take a look at your creations while the audience at home tweets about their favorites using #FaceOff.
I'm loving how interesting he is and how he doesn't look like any other tree.
I wish there was a little more variation in the color, but the makeup is pretty complete.
He stomps onto the stage.
He looks amazing.
I'm really hoping that we get top looks.
I think he looks great.
I think he's got a strong profile and a strong silhouette.
It looks like a tree character.
Our banyan tree doesn't look good.
I'm definitely expecting to be on bottom.
There are no branches.
What the fuck? When we finished last looks, it was all put together, but now, it's not.
I don't know what happened.
Judges, it's time to have a closer look at our trees.
It's really well-rendered.
- And I like the bark here.
- Yeah.
I love this.
- Full head-to-toe coverage.
- Yeah.
Thank you.
Wow, there's a lot of work here.
The strangling vine idea seems placed on as an afterthought.
Thank you.
I don't get it.
I think it's the stump at the top.
There's a lot of things well done, but it's flawed.
The hands are really good.
Yeah.
Thank you.
This is stunning, the way that it trails off in one direction.
I love the clarity of the face.
Thank you.
This pattern here doesn't say "tree bark" at all.
It doesn't say it anywhere.
As Glenn is gesturing, I'm starting to notice all the things that we should have done.
Looks like fungus wasn't the only malady.
I have immunity, so I am gonna be really, really upset if Dina goes home.
Who made your favorite twisted tree character? Tell us on Twitter using #FaceOff.
Oh, lord.
I'm starting to notice all the things that we should have done.
Looks like fungus wasn't the only malady.
I am gonna be really upset if Dina goes home.
Thank you.
The arms seem so undone, and the colors don't even really tie together.
It feels to me as if there's something elaborate missing.
Okay, the judges have scored your creations, so let's find out what they thought.
George and Keaghlan, Dina and Rachael Congratulations, you are all safe and can head back to the makeup room.
That means the rest of you were the best and the worst this week.
The judges would like to speak with each of you to learn more about your work.
Doc and Jason, please step up.
Tell me about the tree that you selected and how it influenced your makeup.
We got the bristlecone pine.
Its malady was lightning strike.
Since the bristlecone pine is a Western tree, we made him the guardian of the desert.
I sculpted the hands, chest, back, and cowl.
Doc blocked out the face and the-- And the stumps.
The form language is exquisite.
Oh, my goodness.
You're doing highly advanced creative thinking.
The shapes actually inform the visual experience for the audience.
It's quite awe-inspiring.
Thank you so much.
I like all the small details.
I love the way you've even done the knees and the feet.
I think it's excellent work.
Thank you.
On the malady front, I don't really know if it's supposed to be on fire or it's just extinguished.
I would have chosen one way or the other.
Yeah.
But the finesse in the cheek area is so good.
Doc and Jason, please step back.
Thank you, guys.
Good job, buddy.
Good job, man.
Good job, guys.
Cig and Drew, please step up.
Tell us about your tree.
We got the weeping willow.
It has bug infestation, and the only way that she can get the bugs to not eat her is to give them something else to eat.
So she sits under the willow branches and grabs passersby.
Then, the bugs come out, and they feast on the person while she's weeping in their face.
I don't want to lead you with anything, but is there anything missing? She was draped in willow branches.
I'm not really sure, but I think our model had a last minute weight issue with them.
Even taking that into account, I feel as if there are so many missed opportunities here.
There's something about the way the color is done.
This seems to be so uniform, and the sluggy bugs don't make sense to me.
There's some really nice fine detail work up in the face, but it turns to mud rather quickly.
Who's responsible for the different aspects of the makeup? Cig sculpted the body, and I did the face and fabricated the branches.
So you're taking full responsibility for engineering whatever I'm not seeing.
That's brave of you.
I'm sad it didn't work out.
- Me, too.
- Me, too.
Cig and Drew, if you'd please step back.
- Thanks.
- Thank you, Iris.
Sasha and Stella, please step forward.
So tell us about the tree that you chose and how the malady inspired this design.
Our tree is the white birch tree, and it is sacred to the Native American people.
He is upset that his people were driven from his land, and because of that, he started growing burls all over his body.
I'm pretty well impressed.
It is so well-rendered and so clear that it is birch.
Then, I see these boxing gloves that are so wrong.
I wanted to do away with them.
Oh, you didn't like them? I said, "Can we please get rid of them?" It's a little late now.
Are those just gloves? Can you take one of them off so I can just see his form without the-- If his hand was just white, it's a gigantic leap forward, but overall, the paint job is absolutely gorgeous.
I enjoy it immensely.
- Thank you.
- I really like this makeup too.
I particularly love the crumply knees.
Just a nice touch.
It's really, really good.
Thank you.
Stella and Sasha, please step back.
Damien and Vince.
Tell me about the tree that influenced this makeup.
Our tree was the giant sequoia, and its malady was rot.
Somebody chops him down, and that's how he gets infested with the rot.
Vince sketched out a profile of him and sculpted the face.
I sculpted the hands, and we both had hands on the cowl and the feet.
I think it's a triumphant victory if it was for an office Halloween party.
It's just not sensible to have started with the trunk on his head because it's so limiting in terms of what you can do for the rest of the body.
It really is like he's rushed into the forest and pulled something over his head as a disguise.
There's something not cohesive about it.
There's some gorgeous work here.
The giant hands, well-sculpted, but his left eye-- What is that supposed to be? It's just a dead eye, just like the rot in-- that's infesting him.
Don't understand that, and conceptually, it's devoid and crippling.
Vince and Damien, please step back.
Thank you.
All right, guys.
The judges have heard what you have to say.
If you'd please head back to the make-up room while they deliberate.
All right, judges.
So why don't we start with the looks you like the most this week.
How about Doc and Jason? I thought it was gorgeous.
There's little that you can do to screw it up once you've got the forms that right-on, and I think that was mostly Jason.
The way that the expression comes through and the clever use of that red under the eye to give that haunted look.
I really loved it.
The distance read had a lot of information that was interesting, and up close, there was a lot of tight detail.
All right, let's move on to Sasha and Stella.
That thing read instantly that it was American-Indian, birch, and there was something fantastical about it.
- The coloring was superb.
- Yeah.
I don't know that you could have nailed the texture color any better.
It's just wonderful.
I loved it.
Let's move on to the looks you like the least.
Cig and Drew.
It's a shame because it's so hard when part of the makeup isn't actually there in front of you, but we can't judge something that isn't there.
The fact that they're not clever enough to have engineered something in the time that they had to carry that weight, that's a decision-making problem.
So even though Drew dropped the ball on the most important part, he was responsible for the face, which is the best part.
- Yeah.
- All right.
Let's move on to Vince and Damien.
It is devoid of a concept.
I don't think Da Vinci himself could have made anything happen with that idea of a tree mask with his eyes and mouth showing through on his head.
And what about Vince and that eye? That was one very, very specific region that had the greatest opportunity to design, sculpt, and sell character.
Yes.
A complete missed opportunity there.
All right, judges, have you made your decisions? - We have.
- Yep.
Okay.
Let's bring them back out.
All right, Glenn, tell us about tonight's top teams.
Doc and Jason, there was some elegant flowing lines in your sculptural work, and we thought that you made all the right choices in your paint job.
Stella and Sasha, your birch texture really came through, and we absolutely adored the way that your malady drove the sympathetic nature of your character.
All right.
Which team came out on top? The top team tonight is All right, Glenn.
Which team came out on top? The top team tonight is Doc and Jason.
Looking at that makeup, you would never know that the two of you guys started off the day thinking that you were in trouble.
It is a remarkably strong piece of work.
Thank you.
Jason and Doc, congratulations.
As you know, we can only have one winner.
Glenn? Our winner tonight is - Jason.
- Oh, my God.
There was true beauty in some of your detail work tonight.
What a comeback.
Congratulations.
Thank you guys so much.
I actually won a challenge, and it feels great.
No matter what happens further in this competition, I have this win, and they can't take that from me.
- Jason, congratulations.
- Thank you.
You and Doc, Sasha, and Stella are all safe and can head back to the makeup room.
Unfortunately, that means the rest of you are on the bottom this week.
One of you will be eliminated.
Please step forward.
All right, Glenn.
Tell us about tonight's bottom teams.
Cig and Drew, we thought the face was quite nice, but the missing willow canopy just left your makeup up a river without a paddle.
Vince and Damien, there were some well-done pieces of the makeup, but the crippled concept was just too prevalent in the end result.
So who's going home tonight? The person going home tonight is Vince.
Most of our major issues were the shapes of the head and cowl.
They just left no where else for the makeup to go.
Vince, I'm sorry, but you have been eliminated.
That means Damien, Cig, and Drew, you guys are safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
You've got great talent, and I hope in the future we meet up again.
Thank you.
Vince, it's been great having you here with us.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
- Good luck, Vince.
- Thank you.
I'm bummed that I didn't get a chance to compete in other challenges.
Who is it, guys? - Vince.
- Oh, Vince.
I have a lot of ideas that I wanted to show.
My only regret, I guess, would be that I didn't think more about the concept, but makeup effects, it's my first love, and I still love doing it, and being able to do that is pretty great.
I've never seen anything like this.
Previously on Face Off Stella's incredible alien brought her to victory.
- Thank you.
- And Gwen was sent home.
Now, 12 artists remain, and tonight, they'll face an extraordinary twist.
There is one more thing you need to know.
Oh, my God! But not everybody will thrive.
I started noticing some cracks.
This is the end of the line for me.
It's a triumphant victory if it was for an office Halloween party.
In the end, only one will win a VIP trip from Kryolan Professional Make-Up to one of their a brand-new 2014 Fiat 500, and $100,000.
Welcome to Face Off.
So what's it like to win? - It's pretty awesome.
- Yeah? Mm-hmm.
I'm not gonna lie.
I was just glad to not be in that bottom circle again.
- Yeah, it sucks.
- Finally.
I've been on the bottom a couple times.
The last makeup was safe, which is good, but I definitely want to show everyone that I can do better than this.
- Oh.
- Oh.
Ooh! We're walking into the lab, and all the models were standing up on these pillars in really elaborate costumes and capes, and we're all really, really excited.
Well, as you've probably guessed, today's foundation challenge is all about superheroes.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
Before I give you the details, I want to introduce you to one of the biggest names working in makeup and special effects today.
He's helped create some of Hollywood's biggest superhero movies, like Fantastic Four, X-Men The Last Stand, and the movie that nabbed him an Academy Award nomination, Hellboy II.
Yes.
Please give a warm welcome to Mike Elizalde.
I'm freaking out.
Like, I am a huge, huge Hellboy fan, and then, for him to walk in, I am super stoked.
Great to finally have you here on Face Off.
- It's great to be here.
- All right.
Well, some of the most classic heroes of all time are intrinsically linked to their capes and costumes.
What they wear really defines who they are as superheroes.
That brings us to today's foundation challenge.
You'll each choose one of these incredible costumes and create the superhero that wears it.
- Nice.
- Yeah.
So Mike, what are you gonna be looking for in their final makeups? I want to see integration with the costume that they're working with.
Put your best effort into telling a complete story.
All right, guys.
The winner of this foundation challenge will earn immunity.
On my "Go," I want you to choose your model and get to work.
You have two hours, and your time starts now.
Hi.
Let's go get you superhero-ed up.
Right here.
I go right to these knee-high glitter boots and hot-pink cape.
My superhero's name is Deadly Diamond.
She is hard and beautiful as diamonds.
The piece doesn't fit her face exactly, so I rip parts away from it and start creating some of that diamond-shape and that cracked pattern.
Perfect.
I look at my model, and the most prominent feature on her costume is the huge protrusion of feathers sticking out of the shoulders of her cape, and I find this really cool feathered bird mask.
And I realize that with the way that the piece is designed, doesn't look like it should be a part of her.
So it works perfectly.
It's a mask.
I want that immunity real bad.
I'm really excited because I'm a huge comic book nerd.
My character's an alien assassin who comes to Earth and falls in love with earthlings.
I'm using this skullcap and this cotton underlay to create a new head shape.
He's Intensitron.
Part man, part machine, all intensity.
I'm gonna bring the color scheme up, do some metallics and some blues.
Intense.
Just something about the purple man that appeals to me.
So my superhero is The Camo-Lord he can change his skin to any color or texture.
I use Kryolan Aqua Colors on the face as a base and then some airbrushing.
Two hours goes by really frickin' quick.
You got 30 minutes, we're at the 30-minute mark.
That's it.
Time! Brushes down.
- Hey, Doc, how are you? - How's it going? Hi, Doc.
All right, so tell us about what direction you went in with your superhero.
All right, so this is Paul Fincher.
He is zookeeper by day, birdcage by night.
It feels to me like he's wearing just a mask.
It should carry over into his skin as well.
But other than that, I think your paint job's really well done.
That means a lot.
Huge fan.
I really like what you did with the layering of color.
It looks like you took a lot of time in creating depth to a very dark makeup.
I might have done a little bit more with the lower half of the face, but I think what you've done looks very nice.
- Thank you.
- So this is Karma.
She's an assassin on her home planet.
This is really, really elegant.
I think your use of contouring is beautiful, and the lashes look great.
Thanks very much.
I was inspired by the collar to do the head shape.
Also it symbolizes cat ears.
I think it's really, really beautiful.
It's tough to do black makeup, and I like the way that you augmented the highlights by using silver, that's a really nice choice.
There are really some amazing superheroes in the room.
It would be so cool to win, but everyone's is really amazing.
It could go either way.
All right, Mike.
How do you think our artists did today? I think they did an amazing job.
Thank you.
Okay, so who created your favorite makeups? Vince, I really love the way that you used layering in your airbrushing to give your character an organic feel.
- Thank you.
- And Rachael.
Very seductive design, beautiful contouring, and good choice of colors.
Very well done.
Who is the winner of today's challenge? The winner of today's challenge is Rachael.
You've created a complete character which told me a story which I believed.
- Well done.
- Thanks very much.
Rachael, congratulations.
You have earned immunity in the next spotlight challenge.
I am really excited to win.
Mike was so nice! Just having his feedback on my piece is really great.
I will see you tomorrow for your next spotlight challenge.
- Bye.
- Thanks, guys.
- Nice to meet you.
- Thank you.
- We're back.
- Whoo! We walk into the lab, and we see McKenzie with this huge tree.
I take a lot of inspiration from nature.
So I'm pretty excited to see what's in store.
- Hey, guys.
- Hi.
Let's get to this.
Films like Lord Of The Rings, The Wizard Of Oz, and The Evil Dead portrayed trees as intelligent beings that possess humanlike traits.
This week's spotlight challenge is to create a larger-than-life tree character inspired by a unique tree species.
That's cool.
I'm absolutely freaking out.
I've been wanting to make a tree character for a really long time.
All right, so we have banyan tree, a sequoia tree, weeping willow, white birch tree, bristlecone pine tree, and silk floss tree.
For this challenge, you'll be working together in teams of two.
This time, you get to pick your own partner.
Ooh.
Go ahead and stand with your new teammate.
Yeah, sure.
_ Jason and I have both been either safe or in the bottom on every challenge, so we're gonna combine our forces of being terrible and make something awesome.
All right, time to pick the trees that will inspire your designs.
Doc and Jason? - Bristlecone pine.
- Sasha and Stella.
The white birch tree.
- Vince and Damien.
- Giant sequoia.
- Yeah.
- Dina and Rachael.
The banyan.
George and Keaghlan.
The silk floss.
There is one more thing you need to know.
Ooh.
In each of the movies that I mentioned earlier, the trees were either evil or angry.
So I want you to turn your characters into twisted trees.
- Nice.
- Yeah.
Now to help guide your dark transformations, you've each been assigned a common malady suffered by trees.
Oh, that's cool.
Doc and Jason, your malady is the lightning strike.
Cig and Drew, your tree has pests.
Nice.
Dina and Rachael, your malady is fungus.
Vince and Damien, your tree has rot.
Sasha and Stella, you've got burl.
This is so cool.
George and Keaghlan, your malady is choking vines.
- Yeah.
- Cool.
Keep in mind that the judges will be looking for both the tree and the malady to be reflected in your final makeups.
So select your models and get started on your designs.
I'll be by later on with my dad to check in on your progress.
- See you later.
- Thank you.
Bye.
- Bristlecone pine.
- Hell yeah.
Jason and I picked the bristlecone pine.
Our malady is lightning, so we've got the coolest tree.
We probably have the coolest malady, and we're gonna create something awesome.
Maybe one big knot going off to the side.
So we decided to have him be the guardian of the desert.
And he's very old and grumpy and lazy.
Whenever he's not doing his job right, the elder gods will strike him with lightning.
I definitely think-- just keep going more asymmetrical - with the profile.
- Okay.
This is, like, my dream challenge.
I love incorporating nature into my makeups.
We get the banyan, and our malady is fungus, which is amazing.
Since these are supposed to be twisted trees, maybe we include an aspect of twisting.
Oh, yeah.
The fungus will be coming out of cracked bark, kind of moving with the flow of the tree, so Yeah.
This is gonna be beautiful.
Sasha and I pick the white birch tree, and our malady is burls, which are, like, tumor growths.
So I start on the face, and Sasha starts on the cowl.
Our concept is a sacred Native American tree that is sad that the white man scared all his people away, and he starts growing all these burls because of that.
Also, birch trees have eyes and are known as the watching trees.
So we want to put eyes all over his body as if he's always watching.
I love these branches so much.
I think it's kind of sick.
All right, I'm gonna get a block of clay and start carving this out.
I don't really have a solid concept for a head or a face on this tree.
So I give Vince the go-ahead to start designing that aspect of it.
We picked the giant sequoia tree, and our malady is tree rot.
I would really love to make a zombie tree.
The top of his head is gonna have a really angry face on it, big hands with huge, you know, bent fingers, and his feet are gonna be also giant and, like, big stumps.
That's cool, man.
Hey, guys.
We're here to check on your trees.
- Hello.
- How are you? - Hi.
- Hello.
He is this twisted, broken tree who's in pain, so we are trying to show the twist of how he's grown.
You know, when I first looked at it, I thought it was vines or a fire.
It's like different directions going everywhere.
I am totally freaking out right now.
We just spent hours sculpting this thing, and I was excited about it, and now we have to start over.
I'm worried because Rachael has immunity, so if we are on bottom looks, I could be going home for this.
Coming up It's breaking.
The more we pry, the more cracks we're getting.
- Is it fixable? - Nope.
- I'm fucked.
- I actually enjoy it immensely.
It's devoid and crippling.
It's like different directions going everywhere, which isn't really what your research is.
Mr.
Westmore tells us that our design doesn't really resemble a banyan tree.
I thought it was vines or a fire.
We put a lot of work into this, but if he doesn't think it looks like a banyan tree, then the judges aren't going to.
We have to start over.
All right, so you have the silk floss.
We have the silk floss.
And the malady is choking vines.
Choking vines.
So explain the concept.
Our character was an environmentalist perched up in the top of this tree to stop it from being chopped down.
So when the tree fell, her and the tree combined and grew into this warrior of the forest.
So the face-- we wanted to incorporate the spines into her face and kind of create a brow with it.
Try to just take a little bit of the human out of it.
Maybe filling in a little under here so it doesn't have the sharp jaw sticking out.
Okay.
So you picked the weeping willow.
Yes.
And it's infested with bugs.
So our story is that it was an earth spirit, and she became infested with these bugs.
She's all draped in these leaves, and people hear someone crying, so they come up to the tree.
She snatches them up, and the bugs come out of all her holes.
And then they're eating the people.
To show the bug, are you gonna have actually little holes? 'Cause the bugs are, you know, like termites.
Yeah, I was just started to put in some divots.
- Yeah, make 'em big enough.
- Yeah.
We have a big, big sculpture that sort of resembles the sequoia, but then the face itself-- it's got the rot on the face.
When you get this out in foam, pull a little foam out of it.
It'll give the model more freedom to be able to twist their head.
Yeah.
The bristlecone pine's got these amazing trunks towards the bottom, so we've come up with these cool boots to go over top.
The bristlecone pine-- there's just so much more - Jagged edges.
- going on with it than what I'm seeing what you're doing.
Yeah.
You haven't gone far enough for your design.
All right.
He's kind of an old, craggy man.
You know, you're getting real human in this.
You don't have to show a mouth so much or even the nasolabial folds.
It's not a person in a tree.
This is the personification of a living tree.
Okay.
All right, everybody.
- Good luck with your trees.
- Good luck.
- Bye.
- Thank you.
- Bye-bye.
- Thank you.
Our malady is bug infestation, and Mr.
Westmore mentioned that we should put some of the evidence of the bug infestation on the sculpts.
So I'm gonna sculpt bug trails into the chest area while drew is sculpting the texture slab that we can use for the arms and the legs.
And then, we really need to get started fabricating the willow branches, which is really important because we've got to figure out how to distribute the weight properly.
I like 'em.
Let's look at this again.
I think Dina's very nervous about the immunity, and now, we are completely redesigning every aspect of what we've been working on.
_ _ My first face had a lot of horizontal designs, but once we got that curveball from Mr.
Westmore, I decided to change that completely and have vertical branches instead.
- This is really depressing.
- I know, I know.
I was hoping I could get it finished today, and then, tomorrow, as soon as I get here, - we can open it.
- Dude, just-- - as thick as you can make it, and then-- - That's what I'm trying to do.
At the end of the day, I'm pretty worried the leg mold is not thick enough, and I know I'm gonna have to come back to it tomorrow.
Okay, that's time.
We're now behind for day two.
I have been in the bottom every challenge.
It's just not a good spot to be in.
I'm starting to get extremely worried.
Oh, it smells like foam latex in here.
Sweet.
It's day two of our tree challenge, and we have ten hours in the lab.
Yesterday, I re-sculpted the face, so today, we're gonna have to finish sculpting the cowl and maybe do some hands, chest piece, and we'll see about a neck.
We have a lot of work to do today.
Yeah, we need to add something here.
- How's it looking? - Fine and dandy.
How's our face? Edges look really nice, - that's for sure.
- Yeah.
We have our foam latex pieces that we sculpted yesterday, and they look beautiful.
So now, we have all of day two for fabrication.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna start cutting up some flowers while the latex dries.
All right.
The tree-- it has this very, like, feminine kind of curve to it, so we were gonna fabricate this pencil skirt out of latex to do this.
I sculpt-- it's called a gang mold.
So that I have a mold of, like, 30 spikes, and I can just pass latex in that.
And within 10 minutes, I've got 30 spikes that are ready to go wherever they need to.
Can you think of anything else that's more pressing? Um, I don't know.
Maybe just dance.
Doc is finished with the leg mold, and I get the chest, back, and cowl finished.
It's the biggest sculpture I've ever done, and now, I have the biggest mold I've ever made to make.
I'm probably gonna need your help moving the mannequin.
While I'm molding the chest, Doc is molding the arms.
We're both a little bit worried about time management, but hopefully, we can get it all done.
Hey, Drew.
I think it's ready to go.
Let's do it.
The stone on the bodysuit mold has completely hardened, and it's ready to open.
Fuck.
I broke it.
We're having a lot of trouble getting the mold actually popped open.
We started noticing some cracks Shit.
And we start noticing some more cracks.
What the fuck happened? The more we pry, the more cracks we're getting.
- Oh, oh.
- What's happening? It's breaking across the chest.
I'm getting worried at this point.
If we don't get this mold open and ready for foam today, we won't have anything.
Why are you stuck? We're in a lot of trouble.
It's breaking.
It's day two of our twisted tree challenge, and me and Drew are having trouble opening our mold.
- All right.
Stop.
- It's stuck here somewhere.
I'm starting to get a little worried right now because we really need to get this mold popped and get right to fabricating willow branches.
Look at that.
Finally get the mold open, and it's definitely a relief.
But we've lost a lot of time.
All right, you go fabricate.
- I'll handle this.
- Are you sure? - Yes.
- All right.
- Very sure.
- All right.
I immediately get started on fabricating the branches of the weeping willow tree.
I'm going to make four large branches that are gonna protrude from the prosthetic in the back.
Once you see it start to kind of, like, wiggle on you, that's your best point.
Birch trees have bark that peels off like paper.
To create that look, I'm taking L200, and I cut some shapes into it, and I curled them with the heat gun.
Look, Sasha.
Oh, my God! We also have to make hands, so Sasha makes burl hands out of poly foam.
_ _ _ _ There's no way that they're gonna come off the hands without us completely tearing them apart.
This is not good.
_ I'm very frustrated, but I'm just gonna have to figure something out.
Yeah.
- Okay.
- Ooh.
See, that right there is almost just perfect for this reddish color that's in there.
_ That's why I'm mixing other colors in it, and this is why I said it was not the exact.
Damien definitely wants to go more sequoia red color with it.
Our malady is tree rot, so I want to go a little bit more grayed-out, dead zombie tree.
It just needs to get a little bit darker.
But it dries a different color than what you're looking.
We're not quite in sync, so I'm a little bit worried about it.
It could make or break us.
I decided to carve my hands out of mattress foam.
It's not looking beautiful, but burls aren't beautiful.
And at least now I feel like I'm on the right track.
I'm gonna keep going.
Hit me.
Aww.
Time is just whittling away, and I go to open the first arm.
I try and lift, and-- Oh, come on.
It's just breaking along the edges.
And there it goes.
It just completely breaks into, like, four different pieces.
We might not be getting the arms.
- Why not? - They just keep breaking.
This is just a mess.
That's time, everyone! Brushes down! - Eh? - Eh.
This is the end of the line for me.
- I'm out.
- No, it's not.
Time runs out, and at this point, I'm already packing my bags in my head.
We don't have the arms.
That was my responsibility.
I sculpted those.
I molded them.
I broke the mold.
It's my fault.
- Go on ahead.
- Go, go, go, go.
It's application day.
We have four hours in the lab and one hour at last looks.
Things are gonna be crazy.
Okay, that can be glued.
A little bit of a tear, but that looks pretty good.
Look.
Check it out.
What's that? We have a very bad second skin on our cowl.
Second skin is where the outside of your foam piece isn't attached, but it really resembles the rot texture that we sculpted into our cowl originally.
- That actually looks good.
- Yeah, like rot.
You could do the rot right there.
Oh, yeah.
So we decide to turn all of our second skinning spots into rot, which I'm hoping doesn't come back to bite us in the ass later.
- Cool.
Yeah.
Right on.
- That's awesome.
- I'm Vince.
- Cig.
So you're gonna be the silk floss tree.
George and I have to apply the skirt, apply the latex patches from her shoulder to her fingertips.
We also have to apply our face piece and head dress as well.
I look around, and everybody has very, very different makeups than ours, but I'm hoping that it makes us stand out in a great way.
If I got to go home, I want to go home on a makeup that I had fun with, and I've had a lot of fun.
Me, too.
This really looks like peeling birch.
- I love it.
- Yeah, it really does.
We used brown as our base color and then dry-brushed white all over.
Our tree is totally coming to life.
The colors in it and the eyes are popping-- like, really looking awesome.
Doc and I get the cowl and torso on our model, and I take a chip brush and just start brushing on that brown base coat and then come up with the lighter brown highlights on top of it.
And 'cause the arms did not come out, we have to find a way to cover everything.
But luckily, I have a robe that I can cut up and glue down on top of him.
The sculpt bulks out.
The arms are covered.
He looks cohesive.
I just hope it's good enough.
_ How much time? Ten.
Oh, fuck.
Time's almost up.
We have all of our prosthetics applied and painted.
So when we get over there, we're gonna attach your branches, and they're gonna come out above you.
Guys, that's time.
- Brushes down.
- Yeah.
It's a risk for us to apply at last looks, but without the branches, she won't read as a weeping willow at all.
So we have to make sure that we get 'em done and done right.
Coming up We need to focus on the paint.
It's looking very hokey.
Stay together, girl.
I don't know what happened.
It's awe-inspiring.
There are so many missed opportunities here.
Let's go.
Let's go.
We get to last looks, and we have an hour left to complete our tree.
They should come out in a two-top.
Okay.
Drew's putting on the branches while I'm touching up the paint.
I'm worried that if we don't get this tree canopy, there's nothing about the makeup that says "weeping willow.
" Perfect.
_ We notice that some of his legs were showing.
- What do you need? - The big piece of pine needles.
So we bring in some more of the green pine to make it look like it's all intentional.
And I'm just thinking, "Oh, my God.
We may have pulled it off.
" _ _ _ I'm still questioning the hands in my head, but the character looks amazing.
We need to focus around the costume, getting it all black.
We're frantically painting.
Time is running out, and it's just too bright.
It looks very hokey.
So we start darkening that dye with some blacks and some browns.
- It popped way better like that.
- Did it? So we're looking pretty good.
All right, guys.
Time, guys.
- Awesome, awesome, awesome.
- Kick ass.
At the end of last looks, I cannot believe that Cig and I have managed to create not just a tree creature, but a tree.
I think we've got a really good chance of hitting top looks with this makeup.
Please, just stay together, girl.
Yeah, right? Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
Tonight, one of you will be eliminated.
First, let's say hello to our talented judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Make-Up Effects Studio, - Glenn Hetrick.
- Good evening, guys.
- Good evening.
- Hey, Glenn.
Oscar-winning makeup artist, Lois Burwell.
Good evening, all of you.
Hi, Lois.
And creature and concept designer, - Neville Page.
- Hello.
- Hi, Neville.
- All right, guys.
This week, your spotlight challenge was to create a twisted tree character based on a unique tree species and malady.
Let's take a look at your creations while the audience at home tweets about their favorites using #FaceOff.
I'm loving how interesting he is and how he doesn't look like any other tree.
I wish there was a little more variation in the color, but the makeup is pretty complete.
He stomps onto the stage.
He looks amazing.
I'm really hoping that we get top looks.
I think he looks great.
I think he's got a strong profile and a strong silhouette.
It looks like a tree character.
Our banyan tree doesn't look good.
I'm definitely expecting to be on bottom.
There are no branches.
What the fuck? When we finished last looks, it was all put together, but now, it's not.
I don't know what happened.
Judges, it's time to have a closer look at our trees.
It's really well-rendered.
- And I like the bark here.
- Yeah.
I love this.
- Full head-to-toe coverage.
- Yeah.
Thank you.
Wow, there's a lot of work here.
The strangling vine idea seems placed on as an afterthought.
Thank you.
I don't get it.
I think it's the stump at the top.
There's a lot of things well done, but it's flawed.
The hands are really good.
Yeah.
Thank you.
This is stunning, the way that it trails off in one direction.
I love the clarity of the face.
Thank you.
This pattern here doesn't say "tree bark" at all.
It doesn't say it anywhere.
As Glenn is gesturing, I'm starting to notice all the things that we should have done.
Looks like fungus wasn't the only malady.
I have immunity, so I am gonna be really, really upset if Dina goes home.
Who made your favorite twisted tree character? Tell us on Twitter using #FaceOff.
Oh, lord.
I'm starting to notice all the things that we should have done.
Looks like fungus wasn't the only malady.
I am gonna be really upset if Dina goes home.
Thank you.
The arms seem so undone, and the colors don't even really tie together.
It feels to me as if there's something elaborate missing.
Okay, the judges have scored your creations, so let's find out what they thought.
George and Keaghlan, Dina and Rachael Congratulations, you are all safe and can head back to the makeup room.
That means the rest of you were the best and the worst this week.
The judges would like to speak with each of you to learn more about your work.
Doc and Jason, please step up.
Tell me about the tree that you selected and how it influenced your makeup.
We got the bristlecone pine.
Its malady was lightning strike.
Since the bristlecone pine is a Western tree, we made him the guardian of the desert.
I sculpted the hands, chest, back, and cowl.
Doc blocked out the face and the-- And the stumps.
The form language is exquisite.
Oh, my goodness.
You're doing highly advanced creative thinking.
The shapes actually inform the visual experience for the audience.
It's quite awe-inspiring.
Thank you so much.
I like all the small details.
I love the way you've even done the knees and the feet.
I think it's excellent work.
Thank you.
On the malady front, I don't really know if it's supposed to be on fire or it's just extinguished.
I would have chosen one way or the other.
Yeah.
But the finesse in the cheek area is so good.
Doc and Jason, please step back.
Thank you, guys.
Good job, buddy.
Good job, man.
Good job, guys.
Cig and Drew, please step up.
Tell us about your tree.
We got the weeping willow.
It has bug infestation, and the only way that she can get the bugs to not eat her is to give them something else to eat.
So she sits under the willow branches and grabs passersby.
Then, the bugs come out, and they feast on the person while she's weeping in their face.
I don't want to lead you with anything, but is there anything missing? She was draped in willow branches.
I'm not really sure, but I think our model had a last minute weight issue with them.
Even taking that into account, I feel as if there are so many missed opportunities here.
There's something about the way the color is done.
This seems to be so uniform, and the sluggy bugs don't make sense to me.
There's some really nice fine detail work up in the face, but it turns to mud rather quickly.
Who's responsible for the different aspects of the makeup? Cig sculpted the body, and I did the face and fabricated the branches.
So you're taking full responsibility for engineering whatever I'm not seeing.
That's brave of you.
I'm sad it didn't work out.
- Me, too.
- Me, too.
Cig and Drew, if you'd please step back.
- Thanks.
- Thank you, Iris.
Sasha and Stella, please step forward.
So tell us about the tree that you chose and how the malady inspired this design.
Our tree is the white birch tree, and it is sacred to the Native American people.
He is upset that his people were driven from his land, and because of that, he started growing burls all over his body.
I'm pretty well impressed.
It is so well-rendered and so clear that it is birch.
Then, I see these boxing gloves that are so wrong.
I wanted to do away with them.
Oh, you didn't like them? I said, "Can we please get rid of them?" It's a little late now.
Are those just gloves? Can you take one of them off so I can just see his form without the-- If his hand was just white, it's a gigantic leap forward, but overall, the paint job is absolutely gorgeous.
I enjoy it immensely.
- Thank you.
- I really like this makeup too.
I particularly love the crumply knees.
Just a nice touch.
It's really, really good.
Thank you.
Stella and Sasha, please step back.
Damien and Vince.
Tell me about the tree that influenced this makeup.
Our tree was the giant sequoia, and its malady was rot.
Somebody chops him down, and that's how he gets infested with the rot.
Vince sketched out a profile of him and sculpted the face.
I sculpted the hands, and we both had hands on the cowl and the feet.
I think it's a triumphant victory if it was for an office Halloween party.
It's just not sensible to have started with the trunk on his head because it's so limiting in terms of what you can do for the rest of the body.
It really is like he's rushed into the forest and pulled something over his head as a disguise.
There's something not cohesive about it.
There's some gorgeous work here.
The giant hands, well-sculpted, but his left eye-- What is that supposed to be? It's just a dead eye, just like the rot in-- that's infesting him.
Don't understand that, and conceptually, it's devoid and crippling.
Vince and Damien, please step back.
Thank you.
All right, guys.
The judges have heard what you have to say.
If you'd please head back to the make-up room while they deliberate.
All right, judges.
So why don't we start with the looks you like the most this week.
How about Doc and Jason? I thought it was gorgeous.
There's little that you can do to screw it up once you've got the forms that right-on, and I think that was mostly Jason.
The way that the expression comes through and the clever use of that red under the eye to give that haunted look.
I really loved it.
The distance read had a lot of information that was interesting, and up close, there was a lot of tight detail.
All right, let's move on to Sasha and Stella.
That thing read instantly that it was American-Indian, birch, and there was something fantastical about it.
- The coloring was superb.
- Yeah.
I don't know that you could have nailed the texture color any better.
It's just wonderful.
I loved it.
Let's move on to the looks you like the least.
Cig and Drew.
It's a shame because it's so hard when part of the makeup isn't actually there in front of you, but we can't judge something that isn't there.
The fact that they're not clever enough to have engineered something in the time that they had to carry that weight, that's a decision-making problem.
So even though Drew dropped the ball on the most important part, he was responsible for the face, which is the best part.
- Yeah.
- All right.
Let's move on to Vince and Damien.
It is devoid of a concept.
I don't think Da Vinci himself could have made anything happen with that idea of a tree mask with his eyes and mouth showing through on his head.
And what about Vince and that eye? That was one very, very specific region that had the greatest opportunity to design, sculpt, and sell character.
Yes.
A complete missed opportunity there.
All right, judges, have you made your decisions? - We have.
- Yep.
Okay.
Let's bring them back out.
All right, Glenn, tell us about tonight's top teams.
Doc and Jason, there was some elegant flowing lines in your sculptural work, and we thought that you made all the right choices in your paint job.
Stella and Sasha, your birch texture really came through, and we absolutely adored the way that your malady drove the sympathetic nature of your character.
All right.
Which team came out on top? The top team tonight is All right, Glenn.
Which team came out on top? The top team tonight is Doc and Jason.
Looking at that makeup, you would never know that the two of you guys started off the day thinking that you were in trouble.
It is a remarkably strong piece of work.
Thank you.
Jason and Doc, congratulations.
As you know, we can only have one winner.
Glenn? Our winner tonight is - Jason.
- Oh, my God.
There was true beauty in some of your detail work tonight.
What a comeback.
Congratulations.
Thank you guys so much.
I actually won a challenge, and it feels great.
No matter what happens further in this competition, I have this win, and they can't take that from me.
- Jason, congratulations.
- Thank you.
You and Doc, Sasha, and Stella are all safe and can head back to the makeup room.
Unfortunately, that means the rest of you are on the bottom this week.
One of you will be eliminated.
Please step forward.
All right, Glenn.
Tell us about tonight's bottom teams.
Cig and Drew, we thought the face was quite nice, but the missing willow canopy just left your makeup up a river without a paddle.
Vince and Damien, there were some well-done pieces of the makeup, but the crippled concept was just too prevalent in the end result.
So who's going home tonight? The person going home tonight is Vince.
Most of our major issues were the shapes of the head and cowl.
They just left no where else for the makeup to go.
Vince, I'm sorry, but you have been eliminated.
That means Damien, Cig, and Drew, you guys are safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
You've got great talent, and I hope in the future we meet up again.
Thank you.
Vince, it's been great having you here with us.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
- Good luck, Vince.
- Thank you.
I'm bummed that I didn't get a chance to compete in other challenges.
Who is it, guys? - Vince.
- Oh, Vince.
I have a lot of ideas that I wanted to show.
My only regret, I guess, would be that I didn't think more about the concept, but makeup effects, it's my first love, and I still love doing it, and being able to do that is pretty great.