Face Off (2011) s10e06 Episode Script
Death's Doorstep
1 Really, really nicely done.
The whole thing is a missed opportunity.
- I think it's pretty damn good.
- Thank you.
McKenzie: Previously on Face Off Rob's alien entity brought him his second win in a row, but Katie fell short and was sent home.
And tonight, the artists face a challenge that is hot off the presses.
We'll be focusing on the obituaries.
- Oh.
- Quack, quack.
If I go home, I still made a awesome duck.
- That's gonna break.
- Ooh, shit.
It's just a massacre.
Fuck.
I literally have nothing.
[Dramatic music.]
This is very successful.
There's no read to this at all.
This is creepy.
McKenzie: 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 2016 Fiat 500, and $100,000.
This is Face Off.
[Exciting music.]
[Energetic music.]
- What the-- - Whoa.
Ooh.
Scary.
We walk into this big printing facility, and there's all these machines.
The whole place is pretty impressive.
Some place, don't you think? - Yeah, right? - I know.
This is crazy.
And there's McKenzie standing in front of newspapers, and I have no idea what to expect.
Hey, guys.
All: - Hi.
- Hi, McKenzie.
We are here today in one of the largest printing facilities in the United States, printing over 1 million newspapers and magazines per day.
Whoa.
Well, these presses print everything from worldwide breaking news to local stories, but today we'll be focusing on one section in particular-- the obituaries.
- Oh.
- [Laughs.]
McKenzie says obits, and I'm like, "Death! Ooh, that could be awesome.
" - [Laughter.]
- Ooh.
Obituaries are written to celebrate life but also to provide insight into how people met their fateful ends.
In films like "Stardust" and "Beetlejuice," characters transition to the afterlife as freshly minted ghosts whose bodies comically display the physical evidence of their deaths.
So with that in mind, your spotlight challenge is to create a whimsical ghost character whose final form reflects the way that they died.
[Laughter and indistinct chatter.]
That's exciting.
I am a huge "Beetlejuice" fan, so this challenge is going to be amazing.
[Whispers.]
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
So now the newspapers next to me feature a special section filled with numbered obituaries describing the tragic demise of the poor souls that you'll be creating this week.
So when I call your name, come take a number and a newspaper to find out which obituary you'll be working with.
- This is so cool.
- Yeah.
Robert, you're up first.
[Energetic music.]
Okay, it's time for you guys to get started on your designs.
Now, remember you'll find clues about how your characters died within your obituaries, and the judges will expect to see that reflected in your final creations.
Okay.
I'll see you guys later with my dad.
- Bye.
All: - Thank you.
My obituary is about Sally Slopes.
She was an avid fan of skiing, and the circumstances of her death are chilling.
This is something I feel like I could work with.
Sally passed away while slaloming, so I decide that she hit a wrong turn and her body twisted into an ice cream cone twirl.
Making something large like this is out of my comfort zone, but I feel like I'm in a position in the competition where I can afford to take a risk.
Who'd you get? "Thomas Watts passed away far too soon, though he lived an electrifying life.
" [Laughs.]
My concept for Thomas Watts is, he was having a bath, and he drops his hair dryer and gets electrocuted.
I gonna have a face piece and do a pale flesh tone and then a bunch of props, like some soap foam and I think for sure a rubber ducky to play with, so we'll get really ridiculous.
Okay, what's yours? Wendy Wand.
"She loved being a magician's assistant, until the trick went wrong.
" My first thought is the 1920s magician's assistant who has been cut in half, but I'm seeing it through a black-and-white television.
So my idea is to do the entire makeup in a gray scale.
Right up my alley.
I'm really excited.
If I can pull it off, it's gonna be a really awesome character.
I got Rose Mary.
"Culinary wizard and loving grandmother.
Rose always spiced up every room she entered.
She died doing what she loved.
" My mind starts going to every little old Italian woman in my family, so I instantly think pasta, and I decide that rose is cooking pasta, and there's a giant explosion in the kitchen.
And so it'll be fun but still a little scary.
Who'd you get? I got Jerry Rig.
"While doing a bit of DIY around the house, Jerry lost his life when one of his projects went horribly wrong.
" For my character, I'm incorporating a hole saw into my design 'cause I picture it twisting his face for a comical aspect to how he died.
The last time I did a whimsical theme, I ended up on bottom, so I'm feeling pretty nervous at this point.
Who do you have? I have Finn Waters.
- Nice.
- "A recreational scuba diver.
The circumstances regarding the passing of Finn Waters became a little fishy.
" Instantly I start thinking he was murdered, like somebody tampered with his scuba gear or something blew up.
Then I think, "This is a whimsical challenge, so I should create a giant fish on top of his head that he has to be stuck with for the rest of his afterlife.
" This is great.
It fits the challenge.
I think it's funny, and I'm ready to start sculpting.
Okay, everybody.
Let's go back to the lab.
[Hard rock music.]
The subject of my obituary is Sarah N.
Geti.
"While on a safari in Africa, she couldn't keep up with the hustle and bustle of the herd," so I figured that she got trampled by, you know, stampeding animals.
I'm gonna be making hoofprints to show that she was trampled by these animals.
If she was trampled, she would have one side of her face on the ground, so I'm just doing a half-face appliance.
I want to keep it subtle and add the whimsical aspect in with the paint job.
My obituary is Suzanne Stitches.
She uses sewing and quilting as stress relief and lives her life on pins and needles.
How do you die from sewing? I start thinking about this woman who's so consumed by making the perfect project that she stumbles into her sewing basket and gets impaled by all her needles.
Usually I go into a challenge like, "Yeah, I really want to win this!" But my concept isn't funny.
It's just dumb.
At this point, I'm just hoping for a safe makeup.
[Upbeat music.]
[Laughs.]
I get Seymour Sharp, who is an amateur juggler who died when it all came crashing down around him, so I figure a clown was juggling bowling balls, chain saws, swords, and knives, and they fell on him and impaled him.
And I'm going to sculpt a cowl, and I'm gonna have a bowling ball imprint on the head, but I've never restructured someone's head, so I'm pretty worried.
[Energetic music.]
I'm sculpting a torso that's been cut in half along with two arm appliances.
I'm trying not to make it too convoluted.
If I have one good idea and stick with it, I can handle this.
Hey, guys, we're here to check in on you.
- Hello.
- Hi.
Hi.
- Hello.
- How are you? - How you doing? - Good.
- I need help.
- Okay.
All right.
- We're here.
He's here.
- What's your newspaper? Tell us about your obituary.
Okay, my obituary is Suzanne Stitches.
I like the idea, you know, with all the pins in the head, but, you know, I don't think you have enough depth here.
Maybe make your forehead a little deeper so you can actually have some of the pins coming out here and maybe give her a little comical nose.
Okay.
So my obituary is Sally Slopes.
I thought it would be funny and whimsical if her body was flipped around, but I'm not, like, committed to the idea if you think this is a freaking train wreck.
- It is whimsical and cute.
- It's funny.
I'm just wondering if you ought to add a little twist to the anatomy itself.
You'd see a little bit of twist to the skin there so those judges see it right away.
But it's gonna be time consuming, so I'd say if you can, I'd try to get this done today.
I wanted more of the whimsical, so, like, a big fish on top of his head that he has to spend the rest of his afterlife with.
I thought that was kind of funny.
I think on the side there, you have it kind of like ears.
I think you ought to make it more gill-like.
Painting the inside of the gill, there'd be a little bit of pink, just like this would be around there, to also take it away from looking like a hat.
Okay.
Well, I have Jerry Rig.
He was working with a hole saw, and he ended up falling on it, and it ended up twisting up his face.
You have this side of the mouth going down.
Sad.
Go ahead and build your smile in here - Oh, okay.
- And take-- this piece here is coming around here, so you're really-- you're gonna create a little smile into it.
Okay.
My obituary is Seymour Sharp.
My idea is that he's juggling a bowling ball, a knife, and a chain saw.
He has an accident, and it all came crashing down on him.
Think simple with this.
Say just juggling knives without having to add all these things to it.
With one of 'em sticking through the head and he's carrying two, it's like, "I missed.
I didn't grab that sucker.
" I don't know if I agree with just the one knife, 'cause one little appliance-- not much of a makeup.
So the bowling ball-- not necessarily a good idea? - It isn't obvious.
- Right.
I am a little lost.
I don't know where to go from here.
This one could send me home.
Think simple with this.
Don't, don't, don't get carried away.
So the bowling ball-- not necessarily a good idea? Mr.
Westmore doesn't really like the bowling ball idea.
He tells me that I should just do one knife gag through the head.
I think it'll be more effective.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Good.
Good luck.
- Thank you very much.
- Yes, thank you very much.
- Good luck.
So I decide to completely rip the clay off and go with a much simpler nose appliance, as well as a knife through the jaw and a appliance on the forehead.
I'm still worried, but I am feeling better.
That's gonna be super cool.
[Techno music.]
I got my face sculpted, so I head to the molding room.
I'm trying to get this face molded and ready for foam so then I'll have a piece to work with tomorrow.
When I finish, I start to engineer the pins.
Suzanne Stitches fell into her pincushion, and I want the pins to literally just be sticking all out of her.
So I take armature wire, and then I make it into this little L shape, and then I glue the bottom of the L onto a styrene platform so that she'll have a nice, flat piece resting against her skin.
So I have to puncture through the appliance and then put a pin head on it so it looks like it's a pin stuck into her skin.
Yeah, I'm gonna put some prints on the face.
Oh, that'll be sweet.
Going up the neck and have, like some porcupine quills sticking out of the forehead, I think.
That'll be awesome.
- Should be whimsical.
- [Laughing.]
I think it would be funny if she has these porcupine quills sticking out of her head, like she got trampled by all of these animals that would really hurt you, and then a porcupine walked on top of her and left some quills.
I think it'll work.
How's it going, front butt? [Laughs.]
It's going.
Making something large like this is out of my comfort zone.
I also have no idea how to mold this.
This is the first very calculated risk I've taken in this competition.
It's gonna be fucking heavy.
Tomorrow I still have to sculpt the face and make this massive mold.
I'm feeling a lot of anxiety.
30 minutes.
[Techno music.]
It's time.
[Door bangs.]
[Energetic music.]
[Laughter.]
I was thinking overnight about the eyes, and I decided that I want to scrap it, because I think it's a bit too cartoony, so I take the eyes off and basically start over.
So now my plan is to quickly sculpt the forehead showing some veins and bring out the skull bones around the eyes to make him look more skeletal.
So I'm kind of behind, but I will get it done.
I want all of the hoofprints for Sarah N.
Geti to look exactly the same, so I mold the hoofprint sculptures in 1065 silicone, take that mold, and run Platsil silicone in them.
Then I use heated Monster clay to do a clay pour over the silicone, and so now what I have is a negative impression in Monster clay of the original positive hoofprints that I sculpted.
I just hope everything turns out.
If something gets dented, nobody panic.
Three, two-- I have to mold the entire lower half of the mannequin's body.
Oh, she's cracking.
Okay.
Everybody, stay calm.
It's stuck on my apron.
Fuck my life.
[All laughing.]
This front butt is tremendous.
All right, we got a nice little crack, but I feel like we can deal with that.
That, you can fix.
And I also have to sculpt and mold the face, so I'm weaving in and out of feeling like this is the worst decision of my life.
I like the dimples.
Thank you.
[Dramatic music.]
Seymour Sharp needs to die from juggling knives, so I fabricate some knives using painting sticks.
I use PVC piping for the handle, and then I just sculpt the hilt out of Chavant clay.
Then I create a box mold and pour out the silicone so I can fill it with two-part plastic, because it's gonna be heavy enough to where it seems real but at the same time very light so that I can apply it to his face.
I really want to achieve the really thin 1920s eyebrow, and my model's eyebrows are incredibly thick, so I decide to create a small forehead appliance just to cover her eyebrows so I can achieve that 1920s look.
I do think I have a lot of work to do, but I only have one big appliance.
The rest are pretty small, so I'm not too worried at this point.
[Energetic music.]
I get my cowl completely finished.
It looks exactly the way I want it to, so I decide that I'm going to do a brow sculpt so I can hide my model's eyebrows.
And once it's done, I'm ready to start molding.
I don't think anyone has ever made a duck and a soap.
I really wonder about ducky.
I think it's kosher to make it funny.
Quack, quack, quack.
So I start sculpting that, and I really have fun with that.
Here's my piece of soap with a meticulously sculpted duck.
I love it.
I don't know about my makeup, but the rubber duck's gonna be awesome.
I'm still worried that my character's too scary.
I'm really trying to focus on getting this character to a more comical effect, so I decide to make the smile a little more subtle and to lower the eyebrow.
Hopefully this is good enough.
Today I spent the whole day molding, and front butt is finally done.
Pff.
Time is running out, and I need to open front butt mold, and I'm just very nervous.
- Shit.
- Calm down.
This is the biggest thing I've ever molded.
With a mold this large, the mold can crack in half.
It could have air pockets.
There are so many things that could go wrong.
[Cracking.]
[Groans.]
The margin for failure is broadening.
The moment I crank on it, it's gonna crack.
Oh, all this is gonna come off? A good portion of it.
I'm already worried I've over-invested in this terrible idea, and if this doesn't work, I don't have much else.
Ooh, shit.
[Cracking.]
- That's gonna break.
- [Groans.]
It's time for me to open the front butt mold.
The moment I crank on it, it's gonna crack.
Oh, all this is gonna come off? A good portion of it.
If this doesn't work, I don't have much else.
Okay, we got some suction released.
It's definitely coming off.
[Laughing.]
Oh, my God.
It's a miracle.
[Grunting.]
- Hooray.
- Front butt lives! This is the highest point in the competition for me.
- [Laughing.]
Yes! - [Laughs.]
Finishing this mold is a crazy feeling, but there's no time to relax, because now I have to sculpt the face and quickly.
[Electronic music.]
- How'd it come out? - Good.
I finish the face, so I decide to start working on the wig.
So I take one half of it and stick it straight up as if an explosion had happened.
I then take the Kryolan black hair spray and spray the tips of the wig to give the burned explosion effect.
I think it looks fucking awesome.
- Really? - Yeah.
I'm incorporating a hole saw into my design, and I want to go bigger, just because I think it's more comical that way.
So I decide to sculpt it out of Styrofoam, because I need it to be light to glue onto my prosthetic.
And then I get it painted, and it looks awesome.
Sweet.
[Tense music.]
I spent all this time on the hoofprints.
Now I have a really short amount of time to finish my face piece.
I'm not happy with the sculpture, but I need to mold it, pop it, and clean it before time runs out.
30 minutes, everyone! [Energetic music.]
That's time, everyone! I get everything done, but I'm feeling uncertain about everything at this point.
But application's my strong point.
That's what I do, so I'm hoping I can save it that way.
[Bang.]
[Dramatic music.]
Right into the madness.
It's application day of our whimsical ghost challenge.
- I need to touch it.
- Oh, wow.
And front butt is waiting for me.
- How'd the foam come out? - Pretty good.
Like it's the fucking shape, which is more than I could ask for.
- Yeah! Hello.
- What up, Christoff? How you doing? You have, like, a huge butt on the front of your body.
It's beautiful.
It came out great.
And it's better than I could have hoped for.
[Laughter.]
Does that feel really heavy? 'Cause I can hollow some of it out.
Yeah.
The cowl's heavy, so I have to rip chunks of foam out.
Fuck.
But I rip a little bit too much and take a piece out of the back of my cowl.
I can fix it, but it's gonna take more time, and I need to get this thing on my model's head.
[Energetic music.]
I get the torso piece on, and it is way too big, so I cut it and fold it over, and it looks great.
All right, if you can hold it right there I am really liking how it's turning out.
I go to put in my knives as a test.
If these knives don't work, I literally have nothing.
Fuck.
I got to figure something out fast.
Yikes.
I come up with the idea to use just the tips of the blades, so I break the knives in half.
I make it look like he broke the knife off as he was dying.
I really have no other option.
That'll work.
Yeah.
[Upbeat music.]
Pull like this.
Perfect.
It's gonna suck for a minute, but For my whimsical ghost, I decide to take Kryolan Old Age Stipple and do stretch and stipple techniques around her mouth area.
After that, I go in with translucent powder.
Kaia then releases her skin, and it gives a old age effect.
Yes.
Okay.
Because it's a minimal makeup, I need to do a good paint job and make sure that everything is as clean and crisp as I can make it.
Okay, turn this arm towards me.
That's good, actually.
I'm trying not to get streaks in my application, so I'm sponging it on and dabbing, but it's taking longer than I expected, so I don't feel confident.
All right.
Just go straight up.
Ready for the first layer of paint.
Whoo-hoo.
I want to make this character more of a fun color, so I want to make him yellow, but I haven't done a lot of whimsical characters, so I'm feeling a little nervous about this.
I want to apply the brightness first, and then I can tone it down afterwards.
I'm just gonna go around the nose a little bit.
Think I'm really liking it.
Perfect.
[Rock music.]
All right.
I'm gonna base you out.
I'm planning to do a frostbite makeup, and in my brain, it's blues and yellows so it appears dead and cold, but this is a whimsical challenge, so I want it to look mildly cartoony.
Instead it's getting muddy.
It looks like a cartoon zombie.
It's supposed to look dead but not terrifying.
15 minutes, everyone! [Energetic music.]
All right.
I'm worried.
Why am I doing a clown? That's time, everyone! Shit.
Heading into last looks, I am probably the most nervous I've been in the competition.
I still have to finish painting her entire body and do a full beauty makeup.
I'm worried about how much time I have left and if I can do it well.
[Tense music.]
All right, let's get this shit going.
I have to try and save this paint job.
I have to figure out her wardrobe.
We still have to get her in the skis, and I have to put snow.
It's just a massacre.
Ooh, that's [Murmurs indistinctly.]
Rough.
[Tense music.]
I have to finish painting the face, because he just looks blue right now, so I have to break it up to make sure he doesn't look like a smurf.
What are these things exactly? Foam from the bathtub.
Okay.
Look up.
Time's winding down, and I still have to do her whole body paint.
My plan is to just cover her in this pink color, and I know that I don't have a lot of time, so it's more important to just get it done than to make it perfect.
To really get that grayscale skin effect, I'm using Kryolan's Aquacolor Plus and just sponging on layers of gray, and I'm finally seeing everything come together, and it's a really great feeling.
There's not a lot of time left, and I'm done with the face, but I'm a little afraid that he will come off a little too scary.
Ten minutes, guys! - Do your thing.
- That's time, everyone! She looks good.
She looks really good.
This is definitely not the worst paint job that has ever been on the competition, but it's certainly my worst paint job.
Would be a dream if I was safe this week.
[Suspenseful music.]
Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
You know our illustrious series judges.
Owner of Alchemy Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
- Good evening.
All: - Good evening.
Oscar and Emmy award-winning makeup artist Ve Neill.
Howdy, everybody.
- Hello.
- Howdy.
And creature and concept designer Neville Page.
- Hello.
- Hello.
All right.
Let's get to it.
This week, your spotlight challenge was to choose an obituary and use it as inspiration for a whimsical ghost character whose final form shows how he or she died.
Let's take a look at your ghostly creations.
[Creepy music.]
I am so happy.
My model's being the whimsical ghost that I wanted.
I'm digging this.
I'm not particularly happy with my makeup.
I'm just hoping to be safe at this point.
I love Finn Waters.
He's got this funky-looking fish on top of his head.
He's funny.
She looks good.
You can see each and every one of those pins.
I'm happy.
My character really does portray a whimsical ghost.
I think I did pretty good on this one.
I'm feeling so embarrassed.
I want this moment to be over.
From a distance, it's not that bad.
If I go home today, I still made a awesome duck.
I'm worried, because it looks so simple.
This could be my last makeup.
I think I hit the challenge.
She looks dead.
She looks funny.
It's perfect.
Okay, judges, it's time to take a closer look.
[Tense music.]
I like the movement of this.
It really gives you the idea that it took off when it hit him.
Yeah.
Even the approach to the hair is very Burton-esque.
I think this is right in the pocket of what they were asked to do.
She was trampled, but the trampling is more like scarification.
And where did the porcupine come in? - It's confusing, isn't it? - Yeah.
Oh, boy.
Can you turn sideways for us? It's not even a fish hat.
- It's an elf hat.
- That's a shame.
The aesthetic's not way off.
It's fun.
It's goofy.
It's cartoony.
It could have been cool.
Well, you sure are cool-looking.
There's some really nice stippling and mottling for a black-and-gray style makeup.
I love the way he, like, removed her brow so he could do, like, a, you know, '20s chrome on her.
- Mm-hmm.
- Thanks.
The attempt at this twisted body gag is just-- it's not working.
It wasn't thought out properly.
I don't feel good about this at all.
It looks like a zombie makeup with the blue nose.
The paint job on here is so clearly toothbrush spatter.
The few small elements of this that are successful cannot save me from all the things about this that are failing.
All right, guys, it's time to get on Twitter and tell us who made your favorite whimsical ghost using #FaceOff The attempt at this twisted body gag is just it's just not working.
It doesn't look like a frostbite makeup.
It looks like a zombie makeup.
I don't feel good about this at all.
It's so bizarre to me.
Why isn't he wet? He was electrocuted in the tub.
This would be a good opportunity to give it a nice gloss coat.
I think the best moment out here is that.
This hair just feels so painted on her.
It's a solid attempt at this type of makeup, but it lacks so much in terms of color or story.
Mm.
All right, the judges have scored your creations, so let's find out what they thought.
Melissa, Anna, Robert, Walter, congratulations, because you guys are safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
[Indistinct chatter.]
That means the rest of you were the best and the worst this week, and the judges would like to speak with each of you before making their decisions.
Mel, please step forward.
[Suspenseful music.]
Tell us about the concept behind your ghostly creation.
She died skiing, so I thought it'd be funny if, because she was slaloming, her lower half just completely turned around.
How successful do you think that was? I think I overstepped my bounds a little.
I agree completely.
You dumped an inordinate amount of time trying to make the whole body look twisted, and that left you lacking in time that you had to work on the face.
Yeah.
The blue nose makes her look like you were trying to do like a kitten or a dog makeup.
This is a flop this week, darling.
Tell me how you fabricated the bottom half.
The whole thing down to the ankles is sculpted.
It's such a shame.
There's almost no payoff for it.
It's such a substantial effort.
Just the tiniest bit of it is visible.
Okay.
Thank you.
Mel, please step back.
Johnny, please step forward.
Would you please tell us about your ghost gone safari? This is Sarah N.
Geti.
While on a safari in Africa, she got trampled.
What kind of a beast was she trampled by? There was several zebras in there, some antelope, and a porcupine came along at the end.
Where did her eyebrow go? Maybe the porcupine took it off in exchange for the quills that it left.
Okay.
[Laughs.]
From a distance, there's no read to this at all.
You missed an opportunity to tear her up in some really funny ways, and all you did was put footprints on her.
Understood.
The quills aren't working, because it throws us off what seems to be potentially a punch line.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing here.
It's a stampede, and then a porcupine shows up? It's just weird.
You got to have a singular exclamatory moment that makes us understand, "Oh, there it is.
" It doesn't feel like she's a ghost.
It doesn't feel whimsical.
It's just a lot of misses for you this week.
I agree.
Johnny, you can head back.
[Whispers.]
Sorry.
[Whispers.]
It's okay.
Yvonne, you're up.
[Whispers.]
Hi.
Tell us about your character.
This is Jerry Rig, and while he was doing a bit of DIY around the house, he fell on his drill.
It twisted up his whole face there.
This is creepy, but it is funny as well, so a success.
The thing I like about it the most is this captured moment in time, and it possesses a sense of movement, which is critical to conveying your gag.
[Laughs.]
Good.
I love the fact that you pick a single color.
I love the way that you embedded the bit into his face.
You really thought about what fits in the world that we're asking you to create.
Thank you.
He could be sitting in that "Beetlejuice" waiting room, and you would know what's going on with him.
For me, this is a win-win.
Thank you.
Yvonne, please step back.
[Whispers.]
Good job.
Nice.
Rob, please step forward.
Tell me the story of Wendy Wand.
Wendy Wand was a magician's assistant.
At the last big show, she screwed up the big trick, so the magician kind of got back at her.
I like that backstory, and I think that this is successful within the challenge.
Overall I'm happy with it, but I really wish that the splits were more of a gaping maw, like fun, family-sized guts and gore.
- Okay.
- I especially like the fact that you chose to do her in shades of black and white.
It's a really beautiful, clean makeup.
- Thank you.
- Well done.
Go bigger.
You could have done a really massive offset of upper body to lower body, and the thinness of her torso would not have made her look disproportionate.
Excellent job.
Just a bit too subtle.
Thank you.
Rob, you can head back.
Kaleb, please step to the center.
Tell us about your ghost.
I had Finn Waters.
He's a recreational scuba diver, and the circumstances of his death are fishy, so he's stuck with the creature that took his life for the rest of his afterlife.
It really looks like he's wearing an orange elf's hat with feathers in it.
The fact that you've painted his face to solid blue, it looks like blue man group gone elfish.
What kind of fish is this? My main reference was an anglerfish.
- But where's the angler? - Right.
Where's that funny thing that could be hanging out there, and he's constantly going, "Fff, fff, fff"? - Yeah.
- That's funny.
[Laughing.]
If you would have slowed yourself and worked your concept a little bit further, this would have been the best makeup out there tonight, because it's predicated upon such a solid idea, but then it technically fell apart as you progressed.
Kaleb, thank you very much.
Please step back.
All right, guys, if you'd please head back to the makeup room while the judges deliberate.
Thank you.
All right, judges, so before we talk about tonight's looks, I'd just like to remind you that you do still have that one-time special immunity available.
Why don't we start with your favorites tonight? - How about Yvonne? - I dug that makeup.
You can tell exactly what happened to that guy.
It was whimsical.
It was over-the-top.
It was graphic.
She did a great job.
It fits better into that world than I think any of the other makeups.
I'm excited about what she did this week and what's coming next.
All right, let's move on to Rob.
This was such a beautiful character.
The choices he made were really spot-on.
I love it, and I think that technically it's executed very well, particularly in the paint application.
And the fact that he did it all in black and white, I think that was really a cool idea.
All right, judges, why don't we move on to the looks that didn't work for you this week? Let's start with Mel.
Oh, I'm really disappointed.
She wasted so much time sculpting an entire body that we don't get to see.
There are all of these super easy ways to tell her story, like snow, icicles, a stick sticking out of her face, and she didn't arrive at them because she was so hung up on twisting the body.
All right, let's move on to Johnny.
It's one of the most minimal attempts at fulfilling a challenge I've ever seen.
Yeah, they were just, like, little flat pieces, and he hardly put a paint job on her.
She was just all pink.
In addition to not doing a good makeup, he didn't satisfy the challenge.
There was nothing whimsical about this.
All right, let's move on to Kaleb.
It's just a fish chomped onto his head.
And just some random brown thing which is useless.
If it just wasn't a hat, like if it was biting onto his jaw or if it was a sea monster and there was tentacles wrapped around, it would have been a prosthetic on his face, and this could have been the winner.
Judges, have you made your decisions? - Yeah, we have.
- Yeah.
Okay, let's bring 'em back out.
All right, Glenn, tell us about the top looks.
Yvonne, your concept was spot-on for this challenge, and we love the way that you captured the essence of motion in your sculpture.
And, Rob, we really appreciated your excellent design work, and the black-and-white paint scheme serves your makeup so well.
So who's the winner of this challenge? The winner of tonight's challenge is [Suspenseful music.]
So who's the winner of this challenge? The winner of tonight's challenge is [Suspenseful music.]
Yvonne.
[Laughing.]
Yeah! You gave us such a clean makeup tonight, and it was one of the few that singularly embraced the theme this week.
- Great work.
- Thank you so much.
I'm so excited.
[Laughs.]
I'm so happy right now, especially since I was on bottom for the last whimsical challenge.
This is the confidence that I need to be able to push forward to win the entire competition.
- Yvonne, congratulations.
- Thank you.
You and Rob can head back to the makeup room.
[Upbeat music.]
All right, guys, that means the rest of you are in the bottom this week, and one of you will be going home.
Please step forward.
[Suspenseful music.]
So, Glenn, tell us about the bottom looks.
Mel, thinking big is typically a good thing, but in this case, your artistry took a backseat to your ambition, and that's a problem.
Johnny, though you tried to embrace the spirit of your obituary, the end result was way too subtle, and it seemed unfinished.
Kaleb, your concept was actually pretty strong, but you had some technical issues, and the character's various parts didn't quite gel together.
So who is going home tonight? The person going home tonight is Johnny.
Your makeup did not tell the story that you intended, and the whole thing felt uninspired.
Johnny, I'm sorry, but you have been eliminated.
That means, Kaleb and Mel, you're both safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
[Melancholy music.]
Thank you.
Johnny, it's been great having you here with us, but if you'd please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
Thank you.
- Good luck, hey.
- Good luck.
I just got eliminated, and it's okay.
I don't consider this a loss.
No! I've gained way more for being in here than I could've lost in this moment.
Yey! I did work that I didn't think I was capable of.
So I've proved a lot to myself in the process.
Going on from here I'll just be better.
I'll go on to do more stuff You will see more of me, I promise you that.
The whole thing is a missed opportunity.
- I think it's pretty damn good.
- Thank you.
McKenzie: Previously on Face Off Rob's alien entity brought him his second win in a row, but Katie fell short and was sent home.
And tonight, the artists face a challenge that is hot off the presses.
We'll be focusing on the obituaries.
- Oh.
- Quack, quack.
If I go home, I still made a awesome duck.
- That's gonna break.
- Ooh, shit.
It's just a massacre.
Fuck.
I literally have nothing.
[Dramatic music.]
This is very successful.
There's no read to this at all.
This is creepy.
McKenzie: 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 2016 Fiat 500, and $100,000.
This is Face Off.
[Exciting music.]
[Energetic music.]
- What the-- - Whoa.
Ooh.
Scary.
We walk into this big printing facility, and there's all these machines.
The whole place is pretty impressive.
Some place, don't you think? - Yeah, right? - I know.
This is crazy.
And there's McKenzie standing in front of newspapers, and I have no idea what to expect.
Hey, guys.
All: - Hi.
- Hi, McKenzie.
We are here today in one of the largest printing facilities in the United States, printing over 1 million newspapers and magazines per day.
Whoa.
Well, these presses print everything from worldwide breaking news to local stories, but today we'll be focusing on one section in particular-- the obituaries.
- Oh.
- [Laughs.]
McKenzie says obits, and I'm like, "Death! Ooh, that could be awesome.
" - [Laughter.]
- Ooh.
Obituaries are written to celebrate life but also to provide insight into how people met their fateful ends.
In films like "Stardust" and "Beetlejuice," characters transition to the afterlife as freshly minted ghosts whose bodies comically display the physical evidence of their deaths.
So with that in mind, your spotlight challenge is to create a whimsical ghost character whose final form reflects the way that they died.
[Laughter and indistinct chatter.]
That's exciting.
I am a huge "Beetlejuice" fan, so this challenge is going to be amazing.
[Whispers.]
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
So now the newspapers next to me feature a special section filled with numbered obituaries describing the tragic demise of the poor souls that you'll be creating this week.
So when I call your name, come take a number and a newspaper to find out which obituary you'll be working with.
- This is so cool.
- Yeah.
Robert, you're up first.
[Energetic music.]
Okay, it's time for you guys to get started on your designs.
Now, remember you'll find clues about how your characters died within your obituaries, and the judges will expect to see that reflected in your final creations.
Okay.
I'll see you guys later with my dad.
- Bye.
All: - Thank you.
My obituary is about Sally Slopes.
She was an avid fan of skiing, and the circumstances of her death are chilling.
This is something I feel like I could work with.
Sally passed away while slaloming, so I decide that she hit a wrong turn and her body twisted into an ice cream cone twirl.
Making something large like this is out of my comfort zone, but I feel like I'm in a position in the competition where I can afford to take a risk.
Who'd you get? "Thomas Watts passed away far too soon, though he lived an electrifying life.
" [Laughs.]
My concept for Thomas Watts is, he was having a bath, and he drops his hair dryer and gets electrocuted.
I gonna have a face piece and do a pale flesh tone and then a bunch of props, like some soap foam and I think for sure a rubber ducky to play with, so we'll get really ridiculous.
Okay, what's yours? Wendy Wand.
"She loved being a magician's assistant, until the trick went wrong.
" My first thought is the 1920s magician's assistant who has been cut in half, but I'm seeing it through a black-and-white television.
So my idea is to do the entire makeup in a gray scale.
Right up my alley.
I'm really excited.
If I can pull it off, it's gonna be a really awesome character.
I got Rose Mary.
"Culinary wizard and loving grandmother.
Rose always spiced up every room she entered.
She died doing what she loved.
" My mind starts going to every little old Italian woman in my family, so I instantly think pasta, and I decide that rose is cooking pasta, and there's a giant explosion in the kitchen.
And so it'll be fun but still a little scary.
Who'd you get? I got Jerry Rig.
"While doing a bit of DIY around the house, Jerry lost his life when one of his projects went horribly wrong.
" For my character, I'm incorporating a hole saw into my design 'cause I picture it twisting his face for a comical aspect to how he died.
The last time I did a whimsical theme, I ended up on bottom, so I'm feeling pretty nervous at this point.
Who do you have? I have Finn Waters.
- Nice.
- "A recreational scuba diver.
The circumstances regarding the passing of Finn Waters became a little fishy.
" Instantly I start thinking he was murdered, like somebody tampered with his scuba gear or something blew up.
Then I think, "This is a whimsical challenge, so I should create a giant fish on top of his head that he has to be stuck with for the rest of his afterlife.
" This is great.
It fits the challenge.
I think it's funny, and I'm ready to start sculpting.
Okay, everybody.
Let's go back to the lab.
[Hard rock music.]
The subject of my obituary is Sarah N.
Geti.
"While on a safari in Africa, she couldn't keep up with the hustle and bustle of the herd," so I figured that she got trampled by, you know, stampeding animals.
I'm gonna be making hoofprints to show that she was trampled by these animals.
If she was trampled, she would have one side of her face on the ground, so I'm just doing a half-face appliance.
I want to keep it subtle and add the whimsical aspect in with the paint job.
My obituary is Suzanne Stitches.
She uses sewing and quilting as stress relief and lives her life on pins and needles.
How do you die from sewing? I start thinking about this woman who's so consumed by making the perfect project that she stumbles into her sewing basket and gets impaled by all her needles.
Usually I go into a challenge like, "Yeah, I really want to win this!" But my concept isn't funny.
It's just dumb.
At this point, I'm just hoping for a safe makeup.
[Upbeat music.]
[Laughs.]
I get Seymour Sharp, who is an amateur juggler who died when it all came crashing down around him, so I figure a clown was juggling bowling balls, chain saws, swords, and knives, and they fell on him and impaled him.
And I'm going to sculpt a cowl, and I'm gonna have a bowling ball imprint on the head, but I've never restructured someone's head, so I'm pretty worried.
[Energetic music.]
I'm sculpting a torso that's been cut in half along with two arm appliances.
I'm trying not to make it too convoluted.
If I have one good idea and stick with it, I can handle this.
Hey, guys, we're here to check in on you.
- Hello.
- Hi.
Hi.
- Hello.
- How are you? - How you doing? - Good.
- I need help.
- Okay.
All right.
- We're here.
He's here.
- What's your newspaper? Tell us about your obituary.
Okay, my obituary is Suzanne Stitches.
I like the idea, you know, with all the pins in the head, but, you know, I don't think you have enough depth here.
Maybe make your forehead a little deeper so you can actually have some of the pins coming out here and maybe give her a little comical nose.
Okay.
So my obituary is Sally Slopes.
I thought it would be funny and whimsical if her body was flipped around, but I'm not, like, committed to the idea if you think this is a freaking train wreck.
- It is whimsical and cute.
- It's funny.
I'm just wondering if you ought to add a little twist to the anatomy itself.
You'd see a little bit of twist to the skin there so those judges see it right away.
But it's gonna be time consuming, so I'd say if you can, I'd try to get this done today.
I wanted more of the whimsical, so, like, a big fish on top of his head that he has to spend the rest of his afterlife with.
I thought that was kind of funny.
I think on the side there, you have it kind of like ears.
I think you ought to make it more gill-like.
Painting the inside of the gill, there'd be a little bit of pink, just like this would be around there, to also take it away from looking like a hat.
Okay.
Well, I have Jerry Rig.
He was working with a hole saw, and he ended up falling on it, and it ended up twisting up his face.
You have this side of the mouth going down.
Sad.
Go ahead and build your smile in here - Oh, okay.
- And take-- this piece here is coming around here, so you're really-- you're gonna create a little smile into it.
Okay.
My obituary is Seymour Sharp.
My idea is that he's juggling a bowling ball, a knife, and a chain saw.
He has an accident, and it all came crashing down on him.
Think simple with this.
Say just juggling knives without having to add all these things to it.
With one of 'em sticking through the head and he's carrying two, it's like, "I missed.
I didn't grab that sucker.
" I don't know if I agree with just the one knife, 'cause one little appliance-- not much of a makeup.
So the bowling ball-- not necessarily a good idea? - It isn't obvious.
- Right.
I am a little lost.
I don't know where to go from here.
This one could send me home.
Think simple with this.
Don't, don't, don't get carried away.
So the bowling ball-- not necessarily a good idea? Mr.
Westmore doesn't really like the bowling ball idea.
He tells me that I should just do one knife gag through the head.
I think it'll be more effective.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Good.
Good luck.
- Thank you very much.
- Yes, thank you very much.
- Good luck.
So I decide to completely rip the clay off and go with a much simpler nose appliance, as well as a knife through the jaw and a appliance on the forehead.
I'm still worried, but I am feeling better.
That's gonna be super cool.
[Techno music.]
I got my face sculpted, so I head to the molding room.
I'm trying to get this face molded and ready for foam so then I'll have a piece to work with tomorrow.
When I finish, I start to engineer the pins.
Suzanne Stitches fell into her pincushion, and I want the pins to literally just be sticking all out of her.
So I take armature wire, and then I make it into this little L shape, and then I glue the bottom of the L onto a styrene platform so that she'll have a nice, flat piece resting against her skin.
So I have to puncture through the appliance and then put a pin head on it so it looks like it's a pin stuck into her skin.
Yeah, I'm gonna put some prints on the face.
Oh, that'll be sweet.
Going up the neck and have, like some porcupine quills sticking out of the forehead, I think.
That'll be awesome.
- Should be whimsical.
- [Laughing.]
I think it would be funny if she has these porcupine quills sticking out of her head, like she got trampled by all of these animals that would really hurt you, and then a porcupine walked on top of her and left some quills.
I think it'll work.
How's it going, front butt? [Laughs.]
It's going.
Making something large like this is out of my comfort zone.
I also have no idea how to mold this.
This is the first very calculated risk I've taken in this competition.
It's gonna be fucking heavy.
Tomorrow I still have to sculpt the face and make this massive mold.
I'm feeling a lot of anxiety.
30 minutes.
[Techno music.]
It's time.
[Door bangs.]
[Energetic music.]
[Laughter.]
I was thinking overnight about the eyes, and I decided that I want to scrap it, because I think it's a bit too cartoony, so I take the eyes off and basically start over.
So now my plan is to quickly sculpt the forehead showing some veins and bring out the skull bones around the eyes to make him look more skeletal.
So I'm kind of behind, but I will get it done.
I want all of the hoofprints for Sarah N.
Geti to look exactly the same, so I mold the hoofprint sculptures in 1065 silicone, take that mold, and run Platsil silicone in them.
Then I use heated Monster clay to do a clay pour over the silicone, and so now what I have is a negative impression in Monster clay of the original positive hoofprints that I sculpted.
I just hope everything turns out.
If something gets dented, nobody panic.
Three, two-- I have to mold the entire lower half of the mannequin's body.
Oh, she's cracking.
Okay.
Everybody, stay calm.
It's stuck on my apron.
Fuck my life.
[All laughing.]
This front butt is tremendous.
All right, we got a nice little crack, but I feel like we can deal with that.
That, you can fix.
And I also have to sculpt and mold the face, so I'm weaving in and out of feeling like this is the worst decision of my life.
I like the dimples.
Thank you.
[Dramatic music.]
Seymour Sharp needs to die from juggling knives, so I fabricate some knives using painting sticks.
I use PVC piping for the handle, and then I just sculpt the hilt out of Chavant clay.
Then I create a box mold and pour out the silicone so I can fill it with two-part plastic, because it's gonna be heavy enough to where it seems real but at the same time very light so that I can apply it to his face.
I really want to achieve the really thin 1920s eyebrow, and my model's eyebrows are incredibly thick, so I decide to create a small forehead appliance just to cover her eyebrows so I can achieve that 1920s look.
I do think I have a lot of work to do, but I only have one big appliance.
The rest are pretty small, so I'm not too worried at this point.
[Energetic music.]
I get my cowl completely finished.
It looks exactly the way I want it to, so I decide that I'm going to do a brow sculpt so I can hide my model's eyebrows.
And once it's done, I'm ready to start molding.
I don't think anyone has ever made a duck and a soap.
I really wonder about ducky.
I think it's kosher to make it funny.
Quack, quack, quack.
So I start sculpting that, and I really have fun with that.
Here's my piece of soap with a meticulously sculpted duck.
I love it.
I don't know about my makeup, but the rubber duck's gonna be awesome.
I'm still worried that my character's too scary.
I'm really trying to focus on getting this character to a more comical effect, so I decide to make the smile a little more subtle and to lower the eyebrow.
Hopefully this is good enough.
Today I spent the whole day molding, and front butt is finally done.
Pff.
Time is running out, and I need to open front butt mold, and I'm just very nervous.
- Shit.
- Calm down.
This is the biggest thing I've ever molded.
With a mold this large, the mold can crack in half.
It could have air pockets.
There are so many things that could go wrong.
[Cracking.]
[Groans.]
The margin for failure is broadening.
The moment I crank on it, it's gonna crack.
Oh, all this is gonna come off? A good portion of it.
I'm already worried I've over-invested in this terrible idea, and if this doesn't work, I don't have much else.
Ooh, shit.
[Cracking.]
- That's gonna break.
- [Groans.]
It's time for me to open the front butt mold.
The moment I crank on it, it's gonna crack.
Oh, all this is gonna come off? A good portion of it.
If this doesn't work, I don't have much else.
Okay, we got some suction released.
It's definitely coming off.
[Laughing.]
Oh, my God.
It's a miracle.
[Grunting.]
- Hooray.
- Front butt lives! This is the highest point in the competition for me.
- [Laughing.]
Yes! - [Laughs.]
Finishing this mold is a crazy feeling, but there's no time to relax, because now I have to sculpt the face and quickly.
[Electronic music.]
- How'd it come out? - Good.
I finish the face, so I decide to start working on the wig.
So I take one half of it and stick it straight up as if an explosion had happened.
I then take the Kryolan black hair spray and spray the tips of the wig to give the burned explosion effect.
I think it looks fucking awesome.
- Really? - Yeah.
I'm incorporating a hole saw into my design, and I want to go bigger, just because I think it's more comical that way.
So I decide to sculpt it out of Styrofoam, because I need it to be light to glue onto my prosthetic.
And then I get it painted, and it looks awesome.
Sweet.
[Tense music.]
I spent all this time on the hoofprints.
Now I have a really short amount of time to finish my face piece.
I'm not happy with the sculpture, but I need to mold it, pop it, and clean it before time runs out.
30 minutes, everyone! [Energetic music.]
That's time, everyone! I get everything done, but I'm feeling uncertain about everything at this point.
But application's my strong point.
That's what I do, so I'm hoping I can save it that way.
[Bang.]
[Dramatic music.]
Right into the madness.
It's application day of our whimsical ghost challenge.
- I need to touch it.
- Oh, wow.
And front butt is waiting for me.
- How'd the foam come out? - Pretty good.
Like it's the fucking shape, which is more than I could ask for.
- Yeah! Hello.
- What up, Christoff? How you doing? You have, like, a huge butt on the front of your body.
It's beautiful.
It came out great.
And it's better than I could have hoped for.
[Laughter.]
Does that feel really heavy? 'Cause I can hollow some of it out.
Yeah.
The cowl's heavy, so I have to rip chunks of foam out.
Fuck.
But I rip a little bit too much and take a piece out of the back of my cowl.
I can fix it, but it's gonna take more time, and I need to get this thing on my model's head.
[Energetic music.]
I get the torso piece on, and it is way too big, so I cut it and fold it over, and it looks great.
All right, if you can hold it right there I am really liking how it's turning out.
I go to put in my knives as a test.
If these knives don't work, I literally have nothing.
Fuck.
I got to figure something out fast.
Yikes.
I come up with the idea to use just the tips of the blades, so I break the knives in half.
I make it look like he broke the knife off as he was dying.
I really have no other option.
That'll work.
Yeah.
[Upbeat music.]
Pull like this.
Perfect.
It's gonna suck for a minute, but For my whimsical ghost, I decide to take Kryolan Old Age Stipple and do stretch and stipple techniques around her mouth area.
After that, I go in with translucent powder.
Kaia then releases her skin, and it gives a old age effect.
Yes.
Okay.
Because it's a minimal makeup, I need to do a good paint job and make sure that everything is as clean and crisp as I can make it.
Okay, turn this arm towards me.
That's good, actually.
I'm trying not to get streaks in my application, so I'm sponging it on and dabbing, but it's taking longer than I expected, so I don't feel confident.
All right.
Just go straight up.
Ready for the first layer of paint.
Whoo-hoo.
I want to make this character more of a fun color, so I want to make him yellow, but I haven't done a lot of whimsical characters, so I'm feeling a little nervous about this.
I want to apply the brightness first, and then I can tone it down afterwards.
I'm just gonna go around the nose a little bit.
Think I'm really liking it.
Perfect.
[Rock music.]
All right.
I'm gonna base you out.
I'm planning to do a frostbite makeup, and in my brain, it's blues and yellows so it appears dead and cold, but this is a whimsical challenge, so I want it to look mildly cartoony.
Instead it's getting muddy.
It looks like a cartoon zombie.
It's supposed to look dead but not terrifying.
15 minutes, everyone! [Energetic music.]
All right.
I'm worried.
Why am I doing a clown? That's time, everyone! Shit.
Heading into last looks, I am probably the most nervous I've been in the competition.
I still have to finish painting her entire body and do a full beauty makeup.
I'm worried about how much time I have left and if I can do it well.
[Tense music.]
All right, let's get this shit going.
I have to try and save this paint job.
I have to figure out her wardrobe.
We still have to get her in the skis, and I have to put snow.
It's just a massacre.
Ooh, that's [Murmurs indistinctly.]
Rough.
[Tense music.]
I have to finish painting the face, because he just looks blue right now, so I have to break it up to make sure he doesn't look like a smurf.
What are these things exactly? Foam from the bathtub.
Okay.
Look up.
Time's winding down, and I still have to do her whole body paint.
My plan is to just cover her in this pink color, and I know that I don't have a lot of time, so it's more important to just get it done than to make it perfect.
To really get that grayscale skin effect, I'm using Kryolan's Aquacolor Plus and just sponging on layers of gray, and I'm finally seeing everything come together, and it's a really great feeling.
There's not a lot of time left, and I'm done with the face, but I'm a little afraid that he will come off a little too scary.
Ten minutes, guys! - Do your thing.
- That's time, everyone! She looks good.
She looks really good.
This is definitely not the worst paint job that has ever been on the competition, but it's certainly my worst paint job.
Would be a dream if I was safe this week.
[Suspenseful music.]
Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
You know our illustrious series judges.
Owner of Alchemy Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
- Good evening.
All: - Good evening.
Oscar and Emmy award-winning makeup artist Ve Neill.
Howdy, everybody.
- Hello.
- Howdy.
And creature and concept designer Neville Page.
- Hello.
- Hello.
All right.
Let's get to it.
This week, your spotlight challenge was to choose an obituary and use it as inspiration for a whimsical ghost character whose final form shows how he or she died.
Let's take a look at your ghostly creations.
[Creepy music.]
I am so happy.
My model's being the whimsical ghost that I wanted.
I'm digging this.
I'm not particularly happy with my makeup.
I'm just hoping to be safe at this point.
I love Finn Waters.
He's got this funky-looking fish on top of his head.
He's funny.
She looks good.
You can see each and every one of those pins.
I'm happy.
My character really does portray a whimsical ghost.
I think I did pretty good on this one.
I'm feeling so embarrassed.
I want this moment to be over.
From a distance, it's not that bad.
If I go home today, I still made a awesome duck.
I'm worried, because it looks so simple.
This could be my last makeup.
I think I hit the challenge.
She looks dead.
She looks funny.
It's perfect.
Okay, judges, it's time to take a closer look.
[Tense music.]
I like the movement of this.
It really gives you the idea that it took off when it hit him.
Yeah.
Even the approach to the hair is very Burton-esque.
I think this is right in the pocket of what they were asked to do.
She was trampled, but the trampling is more like scarification.
And where did the porcupine come in? - It's confusing, isn't it? - Yeah.
Oh, boy.
Can you turn sideways for us? It's not even a fish hat.
- It's an elf hat.
- That's a shame.
The aesthetic's not way off.
It's fun.
It's goofy.
It's cartoony.
It could have been cool.
Well, you sure are cool-looking.
There's some really nice stippling and mottling for a black-and-gray style makeup.
I love the way he, like, removed her brow so he could do, like, a, you know, '20s chrome on her.
- Mm-hmm.
- Thanks.
The attempt at this twisted body gag is just-- it's not working.
It wasn't thought out properly.
I don't feel good about this at all.
It looks like a zombie makeup with the blue nose.
The paint job on here is so clearly toothbrush spatter.
The few small elements of this that are successful cannot save me from all the things about this that are failing.
All right, guys, it's time to get on Twitter and tell us who made your favorite whimsical ghost using #FaceOff The attempt at this twisted body gag is just it's just not working.
It doesn't look like a frostbite makeup.
It looks like a zombie makeup.
I don't feel good about this at all.
It's so bizarre to me.
Why isn't he wet? He was electrocuted in the tub.
This would be a good opportunity to give it a nice gloss coat.
I think the best moment out here is that.
This hair just feels so painted on her.
It's a solid attempt at this type of makeup, but it lacks so much in terms of color or story.
Mm.
All right, the judges have scored your creations, so let's find out what they thought.
Melissa, Anna, Robert, Walter, congratulations, because you guys are safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
[Indistinct chatter.]
That means the rest of you were the best and the worst this week, and the judges would like to speak with each of you before making their decisions.
Mel, please step forward.
[Suspenseful music.]
Tell us about the concept behind your ghostly creation.
She died skiing, so I thought it'd be funny if, because she was slaloming, her lower half just completely turned around.
How successful do you think that was? I think I overstepped my bounds a little.
I agree completely.
You dumped an inordinate amount of time trying to make the whole body look twisted, and that left you lacking in time that you had to work on the face.
Yeah.
The blue nose makes her look like you were trying to do like a kitten or a dog makeup.
This is a flop this week, darling.
Tell me how you fabricated the bottom half.
The whole thing down to the ankles is sculpted.
It's such a shame.
There's almost no payoff for it.
It's such a substantial effort.
Just the tiniest bit of it is visible.
Okay.
Thank you.
Mel, please step back.
Johnny, please step forward.
Would you please tell us about your ghost gone safari? This is Sarah N.
Geti.
While on a safari in Africa, she got trampled.
What kind of a beast was she trampled by? There was several zebras in there, some antelope, and a porcupine came along at the end.
Where did her eyebrow go? Maybe the porcupine took it off in exchange for the quills that it left.
Okay.
[Laughs.]
From a distance, there's no read to this at all.
You missed an opportunity to tear her up in some really funny ways, and all you did was put footprints on her.
Understood.
The quills aren't working, because it throws us off what seems to be potentially a punch line.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing here.
It's a stampede, and then a porcupine shows up? It's just weird.
You got to have a singular exclamatory moment that makes us understand, "Oh, there it is.
" It doesn't feel like she's a ghost.
It doesn't feel whimsical.
It's just a lot of misses for you this week.
I agree.
Johnny, you can head back.
[Whispers.]
Sorry.
[Whispers.]
It's okay.
Yvonne, you're up.
[Whispers.]
Hi.
Tell us about your character.
This is Jerry Rig, and while he was doing a bit of DIY around the house, he fell on his drill.
It twisted up his whole face there.
This is creepy, but it is funny as well, so a success.
The thing I like about it the most is this captured moment in time, and it possesses a sense of movement, which is critical to conveying your gag.
[Laughs.]
Good.
I love the fact that you pick a single color.
I love the way that you embedded the bit into his face.
You really thought about what fits in the world that we're asking you to create.
Thank you.
He could be sitting in that "Beetlejuice" waiting room, and you would know what's going on with him.
For me, this is a win-win.
Thank you.
Yvonne, please step back.
[Whispers.]
Good job.
Nice.
Rob, please step forward.
Tell me the story of Wendy Wand.
Wendy Wand was a magician's assistant.
At the last big show, she screwed up the big trick, so the magician kind of got back at her.
I like that backstory, and I think that this is successful within the challenge.
Overall I'm happy with it, but I really wish that the splits were more of a gaping maw, like fun, family-sized guts and gore.
- Okay.
- I especially like the fact that you chose to do her in shades of black and white.
It's a really beautiful, clean makeup.
- Thank you.
- Well done.
Go bigger.
You could have done a really massive offset of upper body to lower body, and the thinness of her torso would not have made her look disproportionate.
Excellent job.
Just a bit too subtle.
Thank you.
Rob, you can head back.
Kaleb, please step to the center.
Tell us about your ghost.
I had Finn Waters.
He's a recreational scuba diver, and the circumstances of his death are fishy, so he's stuck with the creature that took his life for the rest of his afterlife.
It really looks like he's wearing an orange elf's hat with feathers in it.
The fact that you've painted his face to solid blue, it looks like blue man group gone elfish.
What kind of fish is this? My main reference was an anglerfish.
- But where's the angler? - Right.
Where's that funny thing that could be hanging out there, and he's constantly going, "Fff, fff, fff"? - Yeah.
- That's funny.
[Laughing.]
If you would have slowed yourself and worked your concept a little bit further, this would have been the best makeup out there tonight, because it's predicated upon such a solid idea, but then it technically fell apart as you progressed.
Kaleb, thank you very much.
Please step back.
All right, guys, if you'd please head back to the makeup room while the judges deliberate.
Thank you.
All right, judges, so before we talk about tonight's looks, I'd just like to remind you that you do still have that one-time special immunity available.
Why don't we start with your favorites tonight? - How about Yvonne? - I dug that makeup.
You can tell exactly what happened to that guy.
It was whimsical.
It was over-the-top.
It was graphic.
She did a great job.
It fits better into that world than I think any of the other makeups.
I'm excited about what she did this week and what's coming next.
All right, let's move on to Rob.
This was such a beautiful character.
The choices he made were really spot-on.
I love it, and I think that technically it's executed very well, particularly in the paint application.
And the fact that he did it all in black and white, I think that was really a cool idea.
All right, judges, why don't we move on to the looks that didn't work for you this week? Let's start with Mel.
Oh, I'm really disappointed.
She wasted so much time sculpting an entire body that we don't get to see.
There are all of these super easy ways to tell her story, like snow, icicles, a stick sticking out of her face, and she didn't arrive at them because she was so hung up on twisting the body.
All right, let's move on to Johnny.
It's one of the most minimal attempts at fulfilling a challenge I've ever seen.
Yeah, they were just, like, little flat pieces, and he hardly put a paint job on her.
She was just all pink.
In addition to not doing a good makeup, he didn't satisfy the challenge.
There was nothing whimsical about this.
All right, let's move on to Kaleb.
It's just a fish chomped onto his head.
And just some random brown thing which is useless.
If it just wasn't a hat, like if it was biting onto his jaw or if it was a sea monster and there was tentacles wrapped around, it would have been a prosthetic on his face, and this could have been the winner.
Judges, have you made your decisions? - Yeah, we have.
- Yeah.
Okay, let's bring 'em back out.
All right, Glenn, tell us about the top looks.
Yvonne, your concept was spot-on for this challenge, and we love the way that you captured the essence of motion in your sculpture.
And, Rob, we really appreciated your excellent design work, and the black-and-white paint scheme serves your makeup so well.
So who's the winner of this challenge? The winner of tonight's challenge is [Suspenseful music.]
So who's the winner of this challenge? The winner of tonight's challenge is [Suspenseful music.]
Yvonne.
[Laughing.]
Yeah! You gave us such a clean makeup tonight, and it was one of the few that singularly embraced the theme this week.
- Great work.
- Thank you so much.
I'm so excited.
[Laughs.]
I'm so happy right now, especially since I was on bottom for the last whimsical challenge.
This is the confidence that I need to be able to push forward to win the entire competition.
- Yvonne, congratulations.
- Thank you.
You and Rob can head back to the makeup room.
[Upbeat music.]
All right, guys, that means the rest of you are in the bottom this week, and one of you will be going home.
Please step forward.
[Suspenseful music.]
So, Glenn, tell us about the bottom looks.
Mel, thinking big is typically a good thing, but in this case, your artistry took a backseat to your ambition, and that's a problem.
Johnny, though you tried to embrace the spirit of your obituary, the end result was way too subtle, and it seemed unfinished.
Kaleb, your concept was actually pretty strong, but you had some technical issues, and the character's various parts didn't quite gel together.
So who is going home tonight? The person going home tonight is Johnny.
Your makeup did not tell the story that you intended, and the whole thing felt uninspired.
Johnny, I'm sorry, but you have been eliminated.
That means, Kaleb and Mel, you're both safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
[Melancholy music.]
Thank you.
Johnny, it's been great having you here with us, but if you'd please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
Thank you.
- Good luck, hey.
- Good luck.
I just got eliminated, and it's okay.
I don't consider this a loss.
No! I've gained way more for being in here than I could've lost in this moment.
Yey! I did work that I didn't think I was capable of.
So I've proved a lot to myself in the process.
Going on from here I'll just be better.
I'll go on to do more stuff You will see more of me, I promise you that.