Face Off (2011) s08e01 Episode Script

- Oh, my God.
- This is insane.
This season, Face Off has a whole new twist.
Three champions have returned to coach their own team of artists.
- So let's get moving.
- It's insane.
They'll steer their new proteges toward the finale.
Things are about to get real.
But with a season full of demanding challenges I have a big announcement to make.
I am freaking out.
It is complete pandemonium.
and a judging panel filled with the industry's - brightest stars - I think it's so cool.
coming out on top will be tougher than ever before.
What the heck is happening right now? This competition is nuts.
In the end, only one will win a VIP trip from Kryolan Professional Make-Up to one of their 85 international locations, a brand-new 2014 Fiat 500, and $100,000.
Find out how it all begins right now.
This is Face Off.
_ We're in the middle of downtown LA, and we have no idea what to expect.
All of a sudden these doors open.
Oh, my God.
Wow.
This room is huge.
- Ah, man.
- This is insane.
I can't believe this.
There's supplies everywhere, paint, airbrushes, and Kryolan makeup.
It's crazy.
So much stuff to choose from.
I can't wait to get started.
Hello, everybody.
Welcome to Face Off.
I look up, and I see McKenzie Westmore walking down the stairs, and I'm like, "Oh, my God.
This is it.
" Hey, guys.
Hi.
This season of Face Off is going to be unlike any before, because the competition has completely changed.
This season three former champions will be investing in you guys by becoming your personal coaches.
What? Please welcome your new champion coaches Oh, no way.
Season two winner Rayce Bird.
Season four winner Anthony Kosar.
And season three finalist and season five winner Laura Tyler.
This is mind-blowing.
I can't wait to work with these coaches.
Deep breath.
So how are you guys doing? - Good.
- Fantastic.
Glad to be back.
Well, this is very exciting because you guys have a lot of talent and expertise to share with this season's contestants.
Now, you guys are not the only ones competing this season.
Our returning champions are also competing but not against you.
They will be competing against each other.
- Oh, yeah.
- Sorry! - Oh, wow.
- Oh.
All right, so here's how this is going to work.
Each champion will choose five of you to join their team.
If someone from their team wins this season, that coach wins, as well, making them the first two-time Face Off champion.
That's awesome.
However, if all of the members of that team get eliminated, then the coach gets eliminated as well.
Aww.
So today's challenge is critical because it will be your only chance to prove that you have what it takes to win before the coaches handpick their teams.
So are you ready to make a great first impression? Yeah! Whoo! For your first foundation challenge, you'll each pay tribute to our returning champions by creating a companion character that complements one of their most iconic Face Off creations.
- Aw.
- Oh.
We have Rayce's cellist from our Tim Burton-inspired challenge Yeah.
Anthony's bioluminescent creature.
Lastly, we have Laura's Mother Earth creation from our Earth goddess challenge.
Now, on my go, the monitor placed at each section will display the image of one of these characters.
There can only be five companion characters for each of our champion makeups.
You better be quick to make sure that you get the one you want.
You have two hours to complete this challenge.
Good luck, 'cause your time starts now.
Aah! - I want you.
- How you doing? - I'm Gregory.
- Nice to meet you, Gregory.
Augustine.
Nice to meet you.
All right.
I wish I had, like, three hands and one fourth one to write.
This is Rayce's side, I believe? - Yeah.
- Okay.
I'm going to work on your hair first to get that out of the way.
My name is Emily Serpico.
I'm the youngest contestant ever on Face Off, which is really, really exciting.
I live with my parents, and I'm going to cosmetology school.
I may be underestimated because I'm so young, but I think people are gonna be very surprised at what I can do.
Did you see what Emily is doing with the hairdo? It's like a hat.
- Oh, that's cool.
- Yeah.
So your story is, you are a poet who's inspired by Rayce's cellist.
Sweet.
Where are the prosthetics? Ready to kick some ass.
I am so excited to be here.
I got Anthony's bioluminescent character, and I instantly run toward the prosthetics.
Everybody's digging them up like they're entrails, just flying all over the place.
I find some pointy ears and a brow piece, and I just start rocking it.
_ I'm a trained artist, but I've always loved monsters.
At 17 I started doing it professionally, and I love it.
It's the best job in the world.
All right.
- See, we've got Mother Nature.
- Yeah.
- Now we want Father Time - Oh, sweet.
So your head is gonna be like a grandfather clock - grew into a tree.
- Okay.
I have my own special effects makeup shop, and I've been working on indie films for about eight years in North Carolina.
Being on Face Off is a phenomenal opportunity for me to break into bigger films and major Hollywood blockbusters.
I like the route Greg is going.
He's thinking outside the box.
I really hope Laura picks me to be on her team.
So I went straight towards Mother Earth, and I'm fabricating this foam grandfather clock to impress her.
Yeah, that's good.
- You nervous? - It's a lot of pressure, man.
My concept is the antithesis to Rayce's cellist.
You're an angry techno DJ.
It's a risky plan, but it's not unheard of for companions to be very different from each other.
He's going to be very dark-featured with a prism laser light show coming out of his face.
- How long you been doing it? - A year and a half.
I don't actually do it professionally.
I've spent ten years in the Air National Guard in California.
I come from three generations of military fighter pilots, but I've always had a passion for the effects world, and I really feel like I need to give myself the opportunity to pursue it and get paid to do it.
This is a dream right now.
Got these, got this.
All right, cool.
I'll be right back.
I'm Stephanie, I'm 21 years old, and I work on the creative crew of a haunted house.
Eyelashes? Ooh.
When I'm there, I only have an hour to get so it's really gotten me ready to tackle this competition.
I'm making you one of Mother Nature's babies.
Whatever you need to win, do it.
_ _ I am a creative director in advertising.
_ I started to do special effects because of Face Off, but I've only been doing it for about eight months.
My concept for this character is, like, a young brother version of the character that Anthony did.
Of course I'm nervous and excited.
I'm everything in the same package.
_ Uh, well, it's matching Mother Earth, so I figure that you should be like a protector kind of thing.
I've been a makeup artist for approximately ten years, self-taught.
I'm also a prop maker and suit actor, and since I'm 6'5" I normally get asked to play the monster as well as do the special effects.
This isn't made for you so I've got to fit it to you.
There we go.
Ooh, all right.
I like that he went flesh tone.
It looks like a more human version of yours.
Right.
My name is Julian.
I'm from Fremont, California.
My character is a distant cousin of Anthony's bioluminescent creature.
Close your eyes.
I went to cinema makeup school in Los Angeles, and then I was working for about five years before I moved back to the Bay Area to help my parents care for my younger brother Brent.
He has a disease that affects his speech and motor skills.
Winning Face Off would mean being able to help out my brother.
It would also mean being able to move back to LA for another shot at my career, so I'm gonna be going for all the way.
You guys are all doing great.
You got one hour left.
You're freaking me out now.
I've never had to create a character in this short amount of time, and I'm having a hell of a time layering on these laser lines.
Damn it.
I cannot get that paint to stay down thick.
I start freaking out because I know the coaches are watching me.
This stuff's just not cooperating with me at all.
There's no stopping.
There's no asking for help, and I start thinking, "Am I gonna be the only one out there with nothing?" We're in the middle of our first foundation challenge.
Three champions from previous seasons are back to be our coaches.
We are creating a companion for one of their makeups.
And I chose Rayce's cellist, and my character is supposed to have what resembles the prism laser light show coming out of his face, but I cannot get that paint to stay down.
I start freaking out, because I know the coaches are watching me.
Dammit.
And I'm desperately trying to find something that will help.
I think it's interesting that Logan went black.
Yeah, it's pretty dark out of the gate.
Finally, I apply silver metallic paints that make the prosthetic pop, and I think that's a good attempt at making it a little bit more dynamic.
Yeah, that's better.
Who'd Jamie end up getting? Oh, Rayce's.
You're going to be a composer.
I'm a sci-fi fantasy chick.
I grew up with Star Wars on VHS and laser *** I've been working as a freelance makeup artist for about three years.
There aren't many women in the effects industry, but we can keep up with these boys, and I'm here to prove that.
Blood, sweat, and tears, I will give everything I got to be the next Face Off champion.
Oh, there's Ben.
He's got yours.
- I'm doing Anthony's water guy.
- Uh-huh.
I'm gonna turn you into his princess.
So crazy, I never thought I'd ever be here.
- Really? - Yeah.
I served in Iraq from 2006 to 2007.
I was a helicopter mechanic in the Marine Corps.
Growing up, I'd always sculpted, and I wanted to fine-tune my skills, so when I got out of the Marines I went to cinema makeup school.
A couple of my friends, kind of gave me a hard time.
They thought that I was just gonna be dressing hair and doing fingernail polish, but later when they saw that I was making monsters and creatures they were pretty blown away by it.
Open up for me.
That don't look too bad.
Whoever thought that a big burly guy could do makeup, huh? _ Regina's doing what I would have done.
Looks like she might be putting on some ears? I'm Regina.
I'm 23 from Chicago, Illinois.
I chose Laura's Mother Earth, and my character's gonna be her daughter.
I'm thinking "Woodland Nymph.
" I'm fine artist trained.
I got into effects four years ago.
One of my teachers from makeup school is Graham Schofield from season six.
When he was on the show he made it pretty far, and I'm hoping that I get to that point.
Yeah, we're gonna do other things.
We're doing the fish guy, and you're going to be a lionfish.
I'm a concept designer and art director for the theme park industry.
I worked on rides like Transformers, The Ride 3D.
Actually, I wanted to pull out of theme parks a number of years ago, and then I saw that Neville Page's first project was designing aliens on the Men In Black ride, and I was like, "Okay, I'm gonna stay on this path.
" What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make you into the wizard that actually turned him into the cello.
I'm rob.
I'm 41 years old.
I work as a collision technician at my family's collision shop in Monroe, Michigan.
Special effects has been my favorite hobby since I was nine years old, but when my daughter was born I took six years off.
She was born with two holes in her heart and down syndrome.
Today she's eight years old.
Her name's Riley.
Her holes in her heart are good.
One night when we were watching Face Off she brought me up one of my sculptures and said, "Daddy, you need to do this.
" It hit me, you know, I was like, "Wow, you know, she understands this.
" So here I am.
I'm basically making a version of Father Time - to go with Mother Nature.
- Okay.
I fell in love with makeup in ninth grade.
All throughout high school I did proms, I did weddings.
I'd create creatures around Halloween.
Now that I've been doing film and television makeup for two years, I want to win Face Off.
I'm a very competitive person, and I do not plan on going home.
So I'm turning you into a dead ballerina that dances to his music.
Love it.
Watching Face Off really inspired me.
I knew that I wanted to get into the film industry, and I knew I loved makeup, but because of Face Off I decided to go to school and learn the special effects craft.
After I finished school, I competed in three different IMATs.
I took first place twice.
Time is running out and I'm frantically blending edges, but the piece is too big and it's covering her hairline.
What am I gonna do to cover this edge? And then I see this giant pink flower, so I stick it on my model's head and I think, "This is burnin'.
" Ten minutes, guys.
You have ten minutes left.
Still time.
Time's up, brushes down.
Before I send the coaches down to check out your work, I do have another surprise for you.
Of course.
Hot off the set of The Hunger Games, Mockingjay films, please welcome three time Academy Award-winning makeup artist and Face Off series judge, Ve Neill.
- Hey, everybody! - Hey, Ve! She's the Aretha Franklin of the effects world.
I thought I was excited before, and now I'm ecstatic.
- Well, this is exciting.
- I know, isn't this great? - I am so happy to be back.
- All right, well are you ready to help these champs go see some makeups? - Yeah, let's go.
- Okay.
Hi, Rob.
Tell us about your character.
He was a dark wizard that changed the person to the cello.
Tell me about the choice of that prosthetic.
I wanted to show the brokenness of the relationship between the girl and the cello itself.
I think you did a really great job.
It really reads wizard to me.
- Very complete.
- Thank you.
This is the ballerina that is dancing to the music that is constantly playing.
Explain to me some of the coloration you chose.
I saw the skirt.
That's why I went with the pinks and the darker reds for the shading.
You did a really nice blending job on just a stock piece.
You've got it down pretty well.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
So you were going off of Anthony's character.
Yes, this is a monk lionfish.
You as an artist, how do you see yourself in this character? Conceptually this is very much me.
I like a lot of story in the character.
Those kind of apes can be risky, 'cause they can hide some of the details.
Good job on making the correct choices - and put them in the right spots.
- Great job, Adam.
Thank you.
This is my lovely sea sorceress.
I like that you put the stripes like Anthony had his blue stripes.
I like the way you painted around the eyes and the contacts that you chose, as well as the pie.
It really makes her eyes look really big.
Thank you.
So I wanted to make Mother Nature's dad, Father Time.
He basically is a grumpy old hermit.
So how many prosthetics does he have on? Four, he has a brow piece, two jowls, and then a neck piece.
Well, nice job, I think he looks like an old man.
- Good job, Anthony.
- Thank you.
This is a version of Father Time, and I wanted to do a grandfather clock up here.
We didn't really know where you were going.
It was very unpredictable, which I think was a good thing.
A good idea.
So what did you guys think the makeups? I think, overall, we were really impressed with everything you guys did, and I don't think there's one person that we don't think can take this thing all the way.
- Yeah, great job guys.
- Ve? Well, I think there were some very creative and innovative choices made today, and I'm really excited about this season.
All right, guys, it's time to pick your teams.
Now, we chose this order by random draw.
Laura, you're up first.
This was so hard.
This choice is so important.
If you don't have a good framework to work off of, then your house will fall.
My first pick is-- Laura, who is the first contestant you'd like to have join your team.
I picked this person because I thought their application was nearly flawless, I loved their color choices, and I felt like their character really fit the parameters of this challenge.
So I have to go with Darla.
I'm so excited, not only to be the first one chosen, but to be chosen by Laura.
She's been through two full seasons, and I can't wait to hear all that she has to offer.
- Good first choice.
- Rayce.
To me there's many things that define success in this competition.
Attention to detail is one of those I'd like to push so, Adam, you're on my team, man.
- Congratulations.
- Thanks, man.
Anthony.
My first pick would actually have been Adam.
There's something about his visual storytelling.
But Rayce steals him at the last second.
I really liked her application of color and the use of the depth of color.
I choose Kelly.
Laura, your next pick.
My next pick is someone who had an amazing application, so I'm gonna have to pick Julian.
- Rayce.
- Please don't pick Anthony.
Nobody pick Anthony.
I really want to pick him next.
Anthony, you did a great job.
Get over here.
Aw, man.
Welcome to the team.
- Anthony.
- Alan.
Laura.
So far Laura's picked Darla and Julian.
There's only a few spots left and I really want to be on her team.
Emily.
And there goes another person.
Rob.
Ben.
Laura.
Gregory.
Now that she's picked me, I'm definitely gonna bring it for her, because I want to show her that I deserve a place on her team.
- Logan, get over here.
- All right.
- Daniel.
- Yes! Welcome.
I'm gonna have to go with Stephanie.
Regina, welcome to the team.
Jamie, come on.
We're gonna have a lot of fun.
Yay! Congratulations, everyone, on your new teams.
I know it's been quite an exciting day, but before I send you off to move into your new house, there's just one more piece of business to attend to.
The champions weren't the only ones making picks today.
Ve has selected her own favorites and a winner for today's foundation challenge.
That means one of you will receive immunity in the first spotlight challenge, increasing not just your odds of surviving but your coach's as well.
Having immunity for the first round would especially be good, because I won't be as panicked because I know I'm not going home first.
So this is the big moment, Ve.
Who created your favorite looks? My first choice is Rob.
You did a really great job of picking some unusual components and making a very cohesive character, and I love the texture in the makeup.
Thank you so much.
Darla, you did a beautiful clean makeup.
I loved your backstory, and she was just adorable.
Thank you.
Ve, who is the winner of this challenge? The winner is Darla.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Darla, you created the best companion - for Rayce's cellist.
- Thank you so much.
Really, really wonderful story, darling.
Thank you.
I am ecstatic to win immunity.
I'm feeling sheer joy and excitement, and a little bit of shock, maybe, too.
Darla, congratulations.
As the winner of today's foundation challenge, you have earned immunity in the first spotlight challenge.
- How's that feel? - Awesome.
Darla so deserved this win.
She made all the right decisions.
Say good-bye to your new coaches for now, and I will see you soon for your first spotlight challenge.
- Goodnight.
- Welcome to Face Off! As soon as we go through the gate and I see the scale of the house, that's when it hits me.
I'm finally here, and it feels really good.
- Wow.
- Guys! I'm not believing this is happening.
This house is just incredible.
- Aw, man.
- Oh, my God.
There's these black-and-white photographs of Anthony, Rayce's, and Laura's work.
And that's another moment we're, like, "We're here.
" I have never lived in a place - this nice.
- Ow! I'm gonna call this home for as long as I can be here, and hopefully I'm here a long time.
Season eight! - It is hot.
- What is this? This is crazy.
I think they're leaving us here to die.
Today is our first spotlight challenge, and we are at Vasquez Rocks.
And this has been the place for many, many, many movies, and I don't know really what to expect.
- What is that? - Oh, my gosh.
We see all these alien crash sites and it is crazy.
- That's awesome.
- We round this corner and then I see this gorgeous flowing white ponytail.
No way.
Oh, my God.
Holy shit, it's Rick Baker.
Oh, I'm not gonna geek out.
Be cool.
- No way.
- It's Rick Baker.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh! Rick Baker is "the" makeup artist, so seeing him is just-- I'm speechless.
- That's awesome.
- No way.
- Is this real life? - Oh, my goodness.
This is, like, my biggest idol.
I start shaking.
I actually get a tear in my eye.
It gives me great pleasure to introduce someone who really needs no introduction.
Legendary makeup artist and seven time Academy Award-winner, Rick Baker.
It's an incredible honor to have you here with us, is it not? Yes! You're gonna make me blush, McKenzie.
That's my goal.
Now you have made so many memorable makeups across an incredibly diverse range of films like American Werewolf In London, Men In Black trilogy, Star Wars, Planet Of The Apes.
I mean, just small stuff we got going on here.
What are some of your personal favorites? I would say Harry from Harry And The Hendersons is one of my all-time favorites.
I'm pretty pleased with that one.
All right, guys, let's talk about where we are today.
This is Double B Ranch at Vasquez Rocks, where countless blockbuster films like Cowboys And Aliens, Iron Man, and Transformers 2 have been shot.
Filmmakers come here when they're looking for an otherworldly landscape, and that brings me to your first spotlight challenge.
You'll work with your champion-lead teams of five.
Select one of the unique extraterrestrial crash sites around you here, and use the evidence from the wreckage as inspiration for two aliens that might have emerged from that crash.
Oh, my God.
I love aliens, so I am so excited for this challenge.
Why don't you go ahead and stand with your teammates.
Winning team right here? We got this.
All right, guys.
I have a big surprise for you.
Rick will be joining us on the reveal stage, but he's also going to consult on your designs today.
I'm gonna start crying.
What are you gonna be looking for in their final makeups? The good thing about doing an alien is that you can do anything, but just because you can do anything doesn't mean that you should.
I would like to see a nice clean, well-thought out design that I'd recognize as something that's definitely alien.
You know, something like Glenn Hetrick.
You know what I mean? Oh, you went there.
Wow, okay.
All right, it's time to get started, guys.
On my go I want you to select a crash site and begin working on your concepts.
Rick will come by shortly to collaborate with you.
- Is everyone ready? - Yes.
All right, go.
- Oh, I got it.
- Get it, get it, - get it, get it.
- You want this one? Oh, my God.
I just touched it, it's gooey.
Team Laura, we got to the egg crash site.
It's organic, so we can think about natural lifelike creatures.
Very, very slimy.
There's gold right here.
What would they do with it? Team Anthony picks the crash site that has the aircraft that's all blown to pieces, and there's guns, missiles, gold.
It's just a big hodgepodge of craziness.
This is the liquid they use to be able to live in our atmosphere.
We could do an alien in another alien world.
- I like that.
- Yeah.
Team Rayce picks the crash site with the cryogenic pod and alien crystals coming out of the ground.
All right, so let's get a little powwow going for character design.
You guys want to do spines on the top of the head, on the back? It could be on the back of the arm too.
Maybe we can make it look like the big monster has four legs, but then give the little monster little-- - Hi, Rick.
- Hey! My team just barely starts sketching and I look over.
Rick Bakers sitting right next to me and I'm just-- What's your concept here? What are you thinking? Since there's a drill, they go from planet to planet and just take whatever they want to, and we're thinking there's gonna be a warrior that protects a little alien.
So the little alien is the one that controls the plane and it's gonna wear a helmet all the time, and then the larger alien is the protector.
When they get out of the aircraft, he's the one that's gonna protect her.
My only worry, and since it is Face Off and it's supposed to be about makeup, if one of them is just a helmet, I don't know.
It seems kind of like a cop out if you don't see what's inside.
- Hey, guys.
- Hello.
What's going on here? We are piecing together a story from this alien drunk driver-ing.
What do you think happened here? This is clearly not a and-alone ship, so it's a escape pod, and then we have the mutilated deer over there so-- - Who did that? - Well, this is a predatory Cro Magnon species relative to this planet.
So do you have some designs for these things yet, or-- For the Neanderthal style I thought, "We are in the desert," so the most resilient thing that popped in my head was a king scorpion.
It's arachnid, so it'll be a combination of spider, scorpion, and grasshopper with, like, a black outer shell, and the tissue inside is either pink or red.
I don't want to go purple.
I thought it was a little too hokey.
Yeah, I don't know that it's too hokey.
I like the idea of a nice contrast like that.
Okay, and then they've been working on the higher intelligence alien.
We're going with an old, aged wiser look, and it's a water-based creature that is capable of interstellar travel and that resembles more traditional aliens.
Sounds like you guys have some go ideas, and I'm really curious to see the final results.
So what are you thinking happened here? An alien transplanted three eggs onto a desert.
As they landed, two of 'em got out, and the aliens that came out of it are aquatic instead of desert creatures.
We're gonna have one more developed.
So it's going to blend into the surroundings, and the youngest one just hatched, and the female's gonna be more smooth and slimy.
We were also gonna go with claws.
Mm-hmm.
But we didn't want to be too earthy.
"Too earthy" meaning like earth-- Earth creature, yeah.
I get into this all the time with Barry Sonnenfeld when I'm doing the Men In Black movies.
He says, "You know, do something that doesn't look like it's from this planet.
" So I do something that doesn't have eyes and a mouth, and he goes, "I can't tell where he's looking and how am I gonna know when he's talking if he doesn't have eyes or a mouth?" You know, so it's a delicate balance.
Hearing Rick give us advice about our makeup, it's probably one of the greatest moments I can ever say, like, happened to me.
'Cause I mean, it is Rick Baker.
Okay, so we've got enough down.
We've got enough pictures.
Let's go to the lab and get started on this.
Sounds good.
Hey, does anyone want to go for a ride in the jeep? Hey, guys! We walk into the lab and it hits me for the first time, "Oh, my gosh, we're finally here.
" Oh, my God.
This is the lab of my dreams.
There's an entire wall of Kryolan Aqua Color, amazing wigs, and fabrication stuff that I could never afford.
It's like Christmas over here.
I'm used to working in my parents' garage-- half of a garage.
So this is just unbelievable.
So let's get moving.
Got to get some clay.
My team has a really solid concept, I think, but now we have to get sculpting as soon as possible, because we only have six and a half hours in the lab today.
The delegation is first order of business.
I am sculpting the cowl for the arachnid.
Regina's sculpting the face.
Rob volunteers for fabrication.
- So you want me to cover ears? - Yeah.
I'm gonna build it out here and then carve in more of the divots.
As I'm working on the face sculpt for our higher intelligence alien, I'm trying to do these geometrically-shaped mechanical gills over the mouth.
Do you want them to be the same size, because it's saying "repetition" and then in your mind it's saying "mechanical.
" Sculpting mechanical parts is not easy.
Pinch that in a little bit.
I know that Anthony just started, but there's some fundamental form language issues with it, and I'm really worried about that.
If you have different sizes, there's more organic language happening here.
Yeah.
So we're now calling it like "The Older" - and "The Younger.
" - Okay.
Our concept is that one of them hatched earlier than the other and has already started adapting to its environment.
The things that we would really like to accomplish today are both faces and both cowls, as well as the back piece for our older alien.
Luckily, that's five pieces and we have five people on our team.
Only concern, maybe that these are getting a bit thick and this might be a bit thick.
So this is the first time we get to see any of the artists sculpt.
And you might just want to make the back the interesting part and keep all of this smooth.
And I'm feeling like I got a pretty strong team.
I'm gonna make you a-- Gonna make you a thing.
Uh, how are you guys doing your ears? Oh, yeah.
We didn't talk about ears.
With our concept, we have the big male brute and our small female pilot.
Ooh, yeah, right there.
I'm sculpting the male face while Daniel is sculpting the cowl.
Alan is fabricating armor for the suits.
Jamie is sculpting the female face, and Ben is blocking the cowl for her.
Can you see the glimmer of sweat on my forehead? Anything that's gonna be humanoid is going to have a similar muscle structure as what our own is.
I definitely know what the judges are looking for and anatomy is always a key part of it.
- Pull that out.
- Yeah.
They'll look like it's kind of pulling in a little more.
- Yeah.
- Even though these are aliens, they have to still be based on some kind of realistic anatomy.
Hi, everybody.
Hey, Mr.
Westmore! Mr.
Westmore is a legend in the effects industry.
He's an Oscar winner, and if there's one thing I've learned from watching the show is if he gives you advice, you take it.
Let's see what you have going here.
Now what is this one supposed to be? This is the aquatic one.
What we're trying to do is basically make horizontal gills almost like a respirator to give it this fishy vibe.
Mm-hmm.
It doesn't read that way though.
You're coming down here, you've got lines here, and these are straight.
- It's all over the place.
- Okay.
It's really gonna look amateurish.
You have a big sculpting background? - Mm-hmm.
- You do? All right.
My heart drops into my stomach.
The fact that Mr.
Westmore is questioning my sculpting abilities-- that's scary.
It needs a lot more work.
It is the first challenge, and I'm losing my mind.
You see what I mean here, where you're coming down here? - It's all over the place.
- Okay.
It's really gonna look amateurish.
It's day one of our alien challenge, and Mr.
Westmore doesn't like my sculpture.
Do you have a big sculpting background? - Mm-hmm.
- You do? All right.
It needs a lot more work.
It's like, "Where do I go from here? What am I supposed to do?" I don't-- I don't know.
I'm lost.
I know there's a lot more work to do.
Yeah.
Just be careful with the angular point to it.
It can still be angular, but it needs a lot more work.
Now let's see the cowl there.
In my mind I'm going towards this ancient sea reptile.
Mm-hmm.
All these little angles, all these little things you have in here, roll them.
Not just scars in the sculpture.
Otherwise it's just gonna look like you took a tool - and scratched through it.
- Right, right.
Good, let's see the other pieces.
That's coming nice.
Just looking at it in profile here as opposed to these laying almost flat like this, if you actually raise them up a little bit you would have a more interesting profile.
- Absolutely.
- Yeah.
We're thinking something that has hatched and is now trying to camouflage itself to its new surroundings.
The skin is kind of like the desert lizard.
You might texture this a little bit more.
It's so nice and subtle, I'm afraid that once this is all painted it's not gonna read.
- Okay.
- This is the older one, so he's going to be elongated but also starting to take on more human features.
I would try to put a little - but more alien in the nose.
- Okay.
As opposed to making it too human-looking and then it makes it look like it's a person with a mask on.
Okay, let's see your last head there.
This one is the cowl for the youngest, and so it's a little bit less defined as the older.
And you're doing that spine that you have on the back continuing? - Yes.
- Good.
We've got two aliens.
There is the big muscle-bound one, and then there's the smaller pilot of the aircraft.
Wow, very nice.
And then he's gonna be covered here with a suit? Yes, actually-- Is that what you're building over there? Yeah, I actually draped the whole back end of the suit so it actually accents nicely and showoff more of that muscle structure and bone structure, so you can see the whole back of the head.
Good idea.
Good.
Let's go on to the next and see.
I wanted to kind of get this down.
- Right.
- He's gonna be the one taking the beating out there in the battlefield.
Aggressive, very nice.
You know, one thing I think would be an interesting thing is make some separate lips here, and use the same textures you have here to run right into the mouth.
Mm-hmm, awesome.
Are there any similarities in your two cowls? These were the similarities right here.
Since he's the bigger creature we went with her a softer form.
I would rethink the cowl just to try to pull a little bit more of that into this or vice versa.
That makes sense.
Good-bye, everybody.
Good-bye! All right, let's talk about this fella.
I think what I should do with this, in all honesty, is cut all of this down, do almost a flat nose with nostrils-- slits, like right here.
Mr.
Westmore's advice just completely changed my entire design.
I mean, I'm back to the drawing board.
So I'm adding eyes on either side of the face and rounded shapes in the nose.
I'm hoping it's going to make my makeup better.
Anthony's starting over right now, and I think it's the right decision.
The face is the most important part of the character, and it needs to be right.
Make the details a lot more subtle.
- Okay.
- All right, guys.
We got to head out, so good luck.
I will be back tomorrow in the beginning part of the day.
So if you can mold, crystal clear, dulling spray, and dust.
It's time for me to leave my team on day one, and I'm feeling pretty good, but I'm hoping some of the molds can get done so that tomorrow we can get these characters pre-painted.
Even though we're here to coach and guide them, ultimately they have to do things for themselves.
We're out.
Bye! We're running out of time, so as soon as Jamie's done with the face I take it into the mold room and start molding it.
It's really important to get this face out today, because we want to be able to have a foam latex piece to put up against the cowl and know exactly where that edge line is so we know if we need to bring the cowl forward or push it back any further.
You know how it goes.
I would just get this done and finished, and then we can worry about other stuff tomorrow.
Yeah.
What I'm doing today is a lot of fabrication.
I need to do a chest plate for the arachnid, and I still have to work on our invading alien.
I have to work on weapons, so I wanted to get as much done as possible.
I'm gonna go on the arm like this.
Awesome.
I just did them like little pockets and then, like, tapered them down.
My face sculpt is all blocked out.
I'm starting to go into a little bit of detail.
We should definitely add, like, the dryness-- the texture to it.
To, like, at least the outer edges - on this side I think.
- Yeah.
Darla's right next to me working on the younger alien, so I'm taking Laura's advice and I'm looking back and forth at both of them and making sure they look like they're from the same planet.
Hey, everybody, it's 30 minutes! So I have a couple more things to do tomorrow.
That's time, everybody.
Wow.
It's the end of the day, and I'm very happy with the way that the new sculpture is coming out, but we have no molds done, and Rob is still working on the fabrication.
So I'm really nervous about tomorrow because we still have a lot of work to do.
There's only two days left, and I don't know how we're gonna get it done.
Uh-oh.
Hey, guys.
Come on in and gather round.
Oh, my God.
Real monkeys! There's monkeys! It's crazy! Wait, where's my sculpture? I have another big surprise for you.
There's a huge piece of information that I didn't share with you yesterday.
Oh, no.
There's something happening, and I don't know what it is, but things are about to get real.
Even the coaches don't know what's going on.
This is completely crazy.
Your spacecraft didn't crash-land on Earth.
- Oh, no.
- Oh.
It crash-landed on a planet controlled by primates who are not happy to see your alien invaders.
So you'll each be choosing one of these simians as inspiration for a third character.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
We had a plan, and now that's out the door.
I can feel the nerves radiating off of my team.
This is already a tough challenge, and now it's gonna get a little tougher.
Everything changes, and I'm freaking out.
This competition, it's unbelievable.
We're going to be in trouble.