Face Off (2011) s11e08 Episode Script

1 McKenzie: Previously on "Face Off: All-Stars" Choose one of these trades and use it as inspiration for a marionette character.
- Whoa.
- Oh, nice.
Awesome.
McKenzie: Emily and Tyler's beautiful ballerina brought them their third win.
And tonight the artists embark on an epic journey.
You up for a little adventure? Yeah.
- Let's do it.
- Yeah.
Guys, come on out! - Oh, my God! - [laughs.]
Yes! Hey, you all right? No.
I'm over it.
The sculpt's reading as rock.
It doesn't look good in our favor.
This is impossible.
Application's becoming a nightmare.
McKenzie: Find out what happens next.
This is "Face Off: All-Stars"! [all cheer.]
[exciting music.]
[lively rock music.]
[upbeat music.]
This is gorgeous.
So is anybody worried about getting eliminated soon? 'Cause I am.
- Yes, I'm a little concerned.
- Yeah, definitely.
I'm really excited to get started.
We have had a few bottom looks, but the last challenge the judges received our marionette character well, and so I'm really going into this challenge with a refreshed enthusiasm.
So what do we think the challenge is gonna be? Something in the woods maybe? I mean, we could be going to the observatory.
I'm pretty familiar with Griffith Park.
There's the observatory.
There's the abandoned zoo.
Maybe we're going to one of those.
I don't know.
Hey, guys.
All: Hi.
- You up for a little adventure? - Yeah.
- Let's do it.
- Yes.
Good, because that's what we have in store for you this week.
In fantasy films, the best teams are often made up of the most unlikely of companions.
Memorable characters like Shrek and Donkey from the "Shrek" films and Legolas and Gimli from "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy find themselves working together, despite their different appearances and personalities, to accomplish incredible things.
So, with that in mind, your next Spotlight Challenge is to create a comedic fantasy duo fit to star in an epic adventure film.
That's cool.
- Comedy.
- Awesome.
Okay.
This is a fantasy challenge.
So it's stuff that's really fun to make.
And then it's gonna be funny too, which I always like putting a little humor into our makeup.
Now, I have a little something to help ensure true diversity for this challenge.
Guys, come on out! Oh, my God! Yes! [Laughter.]
[playful music.]
All of the models come out, and they're wearing ridiculously shaped suits.
I am getting so excited.
I love this.
This is awesome.
Oh, my God.
Quit rubbing it.
It's gross.
As you can see, each of our lovely models is wearing a unique bodysuit.
But what you can't see is that they've also been preassigned a fantasy race.
Oh.
- Oh, cool.
- Oh, my gosh.
All right, each team will choose one male and one female character.
George and Cig go ahead and choose your first character.
One, two, three All right, dwarf.
Emily and Tyler, you're next.
A goblin.
- Orc.
- Wood elf.
The fairy.
Ogre.
The faun.
The naiad.
The Minotaur, please.
The troll.
- Come on.
- Come on over.
[laughter.]
- Yay.
- Aww.
All right, guys, remember, another team will be eliminated this week, so please make sure to wow the judges.
All right, I'm gonna leave you here with your models to work on your designs.
When you're done, head back to the lab and get to work.
Good luck, guys.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
Bye.
[lively music.]
[indistinct chatter.]
You're, like, an old married couple.
- But he's young.
- Yeah.
- You're old.
- Yeah, yeah.
You guys are trying to go on a Middle-earth vacation.
Our wood elf character is gonna be sort of the older, fun-loving new-lease-on-life character.
And then she'll also have a beehive hairdo, which will be an actual beehive.
And the Minotaur will be her beefcake trophy companion.
I want the beehive thing to look realistic, but not, like, super cheesy.
And we really love comedy.
So we just feel like this is right up our alley.
I think we're over our slump, and we're back to fresh Ben and Evan.
Funky fresh.
Funky fresh.
[Laughter.]
- You guys feeling it? - Yes.
I think it sounds great.
Why are they together? What brought them together? Maybe their races are becoming extinct, so they're negotiating their territory.
Yeah, that works.
These two characters meet on a quest.
And our goblin is just this sneaky cave dweller.
And our faun is this very gentle, kind character that is being manipulated by the goblin to lead her towards the castle.
So she's, like, the greedy And then he's more like Eeyore.
Yes.
Very Eeyore-ish.
I think the proportions that look good are the tapering top of the head, big traps, big forehead, and shrunken face.
I think Adam and I are having a tough time rebounding from our critiques from last challenge.
So it's a rough start, but it's really nice to have the models there in the suits because we can get an idea of what the end product's gonna look like.
The orc is kind of dumb and brutish.
And she can be full of knowledge, but not as physically capable, so they make a good pair.
So our orc is sort of like a dopey, construction-worker-trope character.
And the naiad is aquatic, so we want to make her fun-loving, book-smart, merfolk character.
We don't want to go a direct fish route with her, but we do want to incorporate some water and fin-like features.
And I thought if they find a baby dragon egg and they want to return it She stops him from cooking the egg.
She's a little spitfire, and he's just - Uh-huh? - Lennie from "Mice and Men.
" - Yeah.
- [chuckles.]
There's gonna be a stark contrast, so, yeah, she needs to be fiery.
We have Grizzlemaw, the dwarf, and she's just this lonely old lady that never had any kids.
- "I don't need nobody!" - Yeah.
But in her old age, she just wants to see the world.
Maybe, like, she was traveling, and he was getting picked on by other ogres, and she saw it, and she defended him, and then they then he just kind of follows her around like a lost puppy.
That's fun.
Our dwarf character, Grizzlemaw, meets Mutton, who's our ogre.
And he's just big and fat and stupid.
But, like, you can't help but love him.
I definitely want to incorporate a heavy, wrinkly, textured skin on her.
We were thinking, like, a married couple.
- [chuckles.]
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I'm thinking that you're going on a vacation and you kind of stumble into an adventure.
Our characters are a married couple that are going on their 800th wedding anniversary in the human world.
And we want to play that up.
So she's the one that makes the itinerary.
And he's the one that's like, "I'll get the check.
" She was, you know, a beautiful fairy at one point, and then she kind of let herself go.
Keaghlan really wants to work on the fairy.
She's really into bright colors and that sort of whimsy thing.
And I'm like, "That'll work perfect.
" I really want to do ugly and grotesque, so I'll take the troll.
So we're happy campers.
[chuckles.]
All right, guys, let's get to work! Let's head to the lab.
[upbeat music.]
[rock music.]
Another day in the lab's like another day on the farm.
How do you feel about throwing silicone on these? Cig is gonna take point on the ogre.
And I'm gonna take point on the dwarf.
I love doing realistic silicone makeups.
So I'm gonna use this opportunity to showcase something that I think I'm halfway decent at.
I'm liking this already.
[chuckles.]
As I'm sculpting the face, I'm making it thin in certain areas so that it moves better and thick in other areas so we really get that dwarf look.
"Not beans, I like mutton.
" "You know what I like? You shutting your mouth!" I like that schnoz.
How you feeling about yours? I want to, like, keep her pretty but then old.
Yeah.
I'm designing the fairy character.
And the body's already been addressed by the bodysuit.
Since I have this opportunity, I'm gonna take my time and do beautiful old-age makeup.
I'm working on the nose, and initially I sculpt it in a pixie form.
But I'm not necessarily sure that's gonna work for me because we also want to make them look realistic.
I would make the nose a little bit more pointed.
'Cause I think that right now it's reading as dwarfish.
Since she's excited about the idea, then it cements my decision to go full fantasy and do a pixie nose.
Yeah, I like that much better.
Are you molding both of these today? - Yeah.
- Yes.
So we're gonna be fabricating on top.
There's hair on them and everything.
And veining and all this stuff.
Cool.
We have to get two cowls out today.
We have to lay hair on the one cowl, and we have to pre-paint the other one.
So it's a lot of work, but we got to get it done.
I'm gonna try to sculpt his face today - Okay.
- So I can add hair to it.
Because the faun's cowl doesn't have to be too intricate because we're covering it with hair, we want to incorporate very simple forms Having the ears turned down to give the sense that this character is sad.
And we really want to keep the horns short and stubby because it just looks more cute that way.
[electronic music.]
Make the face fatter to go with this.
Like, do a rounded face.
The orc sculpture is really consistent with the bodysuit that we have.
Because the bodysuit has such a tremendous belly, he'll have this gigantic head and set of shoulders with a really tiny face and a big jaw, which means we have a lot of clay to put down today.
I would try to incorporate some pond foliage form here.
Adam and I are still working on exactly how the cowl for the naiad's gonna work out.
Now, it's more important that Adam's cowl gets molded by the end of the day because it needs to be actually fabricated on tomorrow.
So there's a tremendous amount of work in a short period of time.
For the wood elf character's beehive hairdo, I'm sculpting a beehive into the cowl, but it's taking too long, and I don't like it.
Why are we making this a cowl? I'm having a hard time justifying all this work.
I already wasted a lot of time trying to make the cowl.
So now I'm not sure how to make it work.
I think this is gonna end up just looking real silly and, like, not in, like, in the way we want? - Not an organic kind of thing? - Yeah.
- I agree.
- Yeah.
I am kind of frustrated.
We can't get a win.
We've had bottom looks.
And if we don't have a clear vision of what we want to do and we are not able to pull it off, our chances of getting eliminated are very high.
[dramatic music.]
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For the wood elf character's beehive hairdo, I'm sculpting the beehive into the cowl, but it's taking too long, and I don't like it.
I feel like this is gonna end up just looking real silly and, like, not in, like, in the way we want? - Not an organic kind of thing? - Yeah.
- I agree.
- Yeah.
It's too much work for how simple it is.
So it's more important for Ben to focus on sculpting a really good old-age makeup.
And we can do this beehive tomorrow.
[electronic music.]
- Tyler, this one's done.
- All right.
We get into the mold room, and we have to mold these two cowls as fast as we can.
Tyler, where would you do this? - Hmm? - Can we swap? Why? I feel like you're a better mold-maker than me.
So Tyler helps me with the division wall, 'cause he knows that if I do it, it's gonna lock or, like, something will happen.
And Tyler will never let me mold again.
If we double-team, like, one person gets one side, the other one gets the other - Yeah.
- We can do it.
The struggle is real.
We can get these done.
I know we can.
Mm-hmm.
- Hi, everybody.
- Hi! - Hello.
- Hey.
This is our dwarf woman.
And she's a crotchety, old grandma.
And she happened upon this guy, who now follows her around like a lost puppy.
I really like the way it's coming around.
I just think you need to push it little bit more for an ogre.
- Mm-hmm.
- Maybe a little bit more in the cheekbone area here.
Mmhmm.
Now, let's take a look at your woman.
The little eyelids you have going on there, I'd do a little stretch and stipple on them.
- Stretch and stipple? - Yeah.
We were talking about maybe giving her a bit of a receding hairline.
It would be nice to be able to take it back beyond where you think you're gonna put your wig - Yeah.
- So you don't have to put a bald cap on and you wind up with a little gnarly seam across there.
Now, it looks like you have the Minotaur and - Minotaur.
- Wood elf.
- Wood elf, yeah.
- To me, the back of the head, it looks pretty human.
I don't think it would hurt if you made a ridge that's maybe only that big.
Mmhmm.
And what are you gonna do with the face? In the realm of a cow? - More bovine.
- Yeah, more bovine.
Okay.
No, I think it's a good idea.
And then with our old lady I know elves have more of a human look to 'em, but I kind of want to add some pointy features.
I think you could even go a little bit more A little more? 'Cause if you do that, it might start turning witchy.
You got a great nose going on.
Thank you.
How are you approaching this now? - With speed.
- "With speed.
" I think you can even push it further.
There's a lot of human in there, between cheekbones and this coming out.
I would advise not being afraid of really going for more orc, because it's gonna play really well with the softness and the beauty of your sea nymph.
Let's see your naiad.
Now, what are you gonna do here? So, for the cowl, doing this fin work.
She'll have hair over it.
So, if you really wanted to sell the idea, this could be a larger gill that comes out and down and around there.
Our fairy and troll are married.
They go out to the human world for a vacation.
I like the little round chin.
And you might, with the upper lip here, do a little more cracking, because right now it has a very youthful type of a look to it.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
And you want Everything you want going - Mm-hmm.
Exactly.
- Kind of this way.
And the reverse over here.
- Exactly.
- Everything's - Going down.
- Going down, yeah.
And what you've done here, too, is you've taken the basic skull shape away, which is nice.
You've given a little Neanderthal in here to balance out your big nose coming down.
It looks good.
- Bye, everybody.
- See you.
- Thank you.
- Bye.
[electronic music.]
She's a golden girl.
[Laughs.]
I want it to be, like, the characters go out onstage, and it's immediately understandable that it's a comedy.
Traditionally, trolls turn to stone when they're exposed to sunlight.
So I start adding some rocklike texture on the nose, because our husband and wife team are taking a vacation in Hawaii of all places, so The places where you would sunburn are starting to turn to rock.
[chuckles.]
I feel like the sculpt's reading as rock.
Either way, it reads as a really fun texture.
30 minutes! [tool whirring.]
No, it's still hot.
We're running out of time before the end of the day, and Adam and I have already spent a great deal of time in the mold room just trying to get these things done so we can focus on the fabrication tomorrow.
But, unfortunately, we both won't get our molds done, and Adam's pretty frustrated at that fact.
- Hey.
You all right? - No.
I don't have any, like No.
Now, having not put that much detail into that cowl sculpture, he feels like it was a waste of his time.
Moving as fast as we could.
We'll run it in foam, anyway, tomorrow night.
All right, guys, it's time! It's frustrating that our game plan didn't go accordingly.
That means I have to do a slip cast, fabricate all the pieces separate, and then assemble an application.
So, in order to fabricate on this, I'm gonna have to run poly foam and latex.
The only problem is, that's eating into the time that I wanted to fabricate.
So we're behind more than we're ahead.
While Keaghlan's working on the face sculpture for the fairy, the first thing I want to do is mold the face for the troll, 'cause I need to mold both the face and the cowl today, and I want the face mold cooking while I can work on the cowl.
I should be in the mold room, but I decide to spend more time finessing the sculpture.
Since I'm doing an old-age makeup and the judges have been very critical on those, I really want to make sure that it's as good as it can be.
While Ben is molding, I'm sculpting the Minotaur's face.
You know, I've never really sculpted animal faces like this.
And the focal point of this makeup is gonna be the snout and the eyes, but the snout I just feel like it needs the most detail.
So I just want to keep the forms a lot softer.
- Looks pretty good.
- Yeah.
Just fill out that edge right in that crease.
Okay, okay, cool.
Our model has a really good bottom lip, and I don't want to cover that up.
So what I do is I just leave it exposed, and the way the snout looks, it matches up with his natural lip, so I don't want to waste any time, so I'm just not gonna do the chin stuff.
Look at that stud.
Moo-ve over.
[laughs.]
I go to crack open my naiad cowl mold and check out the latex brushups.
And that's how you waste a couple hours.
Problem is, when I open it, it hasn't become one piece.
It is still in two separate pieces.
Hey, it's [bleep.]
, dude.
I thought so.
There's been one hurdle after another.
Instead of getting a head start, we're now behind.
And it's not gonna be the product that I want.
I'm upset.
I'm frustrated.
[pounding, ceramic breaks.]
I'm just over it.
[bleep.]
.
.
- It's [bleep.]
, dude.
- I thought so.
This cowl is still in two separate pieces.
We're now behind, and it's frustrating, because this is a challenge that's not going to rely on the quality of one character.
It's both characters.
And it's not gonna be the product that I want it to be.
It's looking good, though.
So there's that.
[Chuckles.]
I do understand the frustration very much, but we have to finish these things.
If we can do a smaller thing tomorrow maybe? Logan suggests fabricating something to attach to the cowl and eventually cover it with some sort of fabric in order to make it look like a fin.
It's not exactly what I want to put out there, but hopefully we can make it work.
[upbeat rock music.]
- Check it out.
- [chuckles.]
Oh, yes.
George comes up with the idea to actually brush silicone on the exposed belly piece of the fat suit.
It's way more fun to wear it.
It has a really nice translucency, and it makes smooth skin texture.
Once that's done, George hands it off to me to start pre-painting.
I don't really have an exact color scheme in mind.
So I just grab a couple colors and start to spatter.
And it's looking great.
It's really gross.
- You like it? - Yeah.
[electronic music.]
Are you nervous? - About what? - Her hair.
- Let's do it! - All right.
There's so much hair involved in both of the characters.
So Tyler is going to make the goblin wig.
I'm excited.
I get to learn from Emily's school of hair craft.
Time to hairspray it.
Separate it, spray it.
Let the hairspray dry a little bit.
Hit it with the blow-dryer.
That should be good.
Stick it up.
Grab it by the ends.
Vary up the length.
Grab the razor.
You want it to look super stringy.
Do that all over.
He's gonna be my first graduate.
Looks good.
It's 30 minutes, guys.
[intense electronic music.]
That's time, everyone! [groans.]
[downbeat electronic music.]
[chuckles.]
[indistinct chatter.]
[lively rock music.]
- Oh, they're already there.
- Oh, cool.
Hey, guys! - This is your cowl.
- And I do this.
I'll trim it after I glue it down.
I put my model in a bald cap.
While I'm doing this, Logan is applying the cowl for our orc.
And then on our naiad, we have to apply shoulder pieces and hand pieces, not to mention the cheek, neck, face pieces, and a head piece with a wig.
Even though hitting what I originally envisioned is out the window, hopefully we can come close and create a character that looks good next to the orc.
[electronic music.]
Here we go.
This is gonna look great on you.
Our pieces look really great.
But the silicone for the dwarf's face is kind of tricky to apply because it's so heavy.
So I have to meticulously glue it down exactly where I sculpted it.
If we don't win this challenge, it's gonna be entirely your fault.
[laughs.]
But I kind of have to pick up the speed a little bit because I won't have enough time with paint.
Go eyebrows way up.
Now way down, angry.
Yeah.
Oh, that's a good one.
Yeah.
It doesn't reach.
There's a giant space where the goblin face does not meet the cowl.
I didn't bring the forehead back enough.
- Okay.
- So I'm putting this down as a gap because it doesn't reach.
So I grab a forehead appliance that we can use to seal the foam.
It's taking a lot of time and repair.
So application's becoming a nightmare.
Just so you know, this is impossible.
There's so much hair to lay on the faun.
And I don't know if I'm gonna have time for it.
Do you want to apply Megan? Yep.
I'm so afraid it's gonna become a train wreck.
So, for our color palette for these characters, Melissa's going to be painting the troll in nature tones, and I'm going very whimsical with the fairy.
I'm gonna do a lot of lavenders, pinks, and some purples.
But I'm starting to get stressed out about my paint job.
It's got to read like old-age, but still live in a fantasy realm.
So I want to give myself enough time to do it justice.
How's everything going over there, Evan? Great.
How about for you? Doing all right.
So my plan for painting is to mix up a flesh tone, base the whole thing out in it.
Then I stipple the eyelines a color to make it look more natural because I don't want to paint him like a cow.
From there, I darken areas and shade and then spatter.
I'm surprised at how good it looks.
Check it out.
Looks good.
- Do your sad face.
- [moans.]
[laughter.]
The ogre's looking so cool.
And for the dwarf, I've got the base tones in place.
So now this makeup is gonna be painted 90% with a spatter technique because that gives a more organic pattern than anything else.
So I just build from the color that the silicone started all the way up to what our model's skin tone is.
And I think it's looking great.
- Dude, that is so good.
- Thanks, man.
What's the time, please? 24 minutes.
[intense electronic music.]
That's time, guys! - Whew.
- Whew.
- And the latex works.
- Yeah.
Looking around the lab and noticing everyone else's characters and how grounded in Middle-earth they are, I'm nervous that we might have gone a little too goofy with it.
Melissa and I have had enough bottom looks that if we don't knock this one out of the park, it won't look good in our favor.
[dramatic music.]
.
[dramatic music.]
What are you gonna do on the lower lip? Nothing.
I'm painting it now.
It's Last Looks, and Evan starts working on the Minotaur, and I have to do the makeup on the wood elf.
We run a risk of it just looking like an older lady.
But the contacts give it a fantasy element, and I think it looks pretty cool.
What are you looking for, Adam? Any kind of hairspray.
Are you almost done with that airbrush? So we have the base coat laid down, but I want to bring out her contours and forms of her face using airbrush paint.
I also want to do a spatter over her to break up the character graphically.
This is an All-Star season, so I'm not worried about just completing the character.
It's making it look good.
[airbrush hissing.]
Okay, look at me.
Once I get the wig glued on, I notice the pieces for her jowls are way too big.
So I scrap a braided piece and cut it into thirds, and I use a third for each side.
I think it's a smart decision because I'm not taking up a lot of her face and they're just little hair accents.
[canisters spraying.]
Okay, so what happened to her mouth? Let me see.
I have no idea what that is and why that happened.
Our goblin's entire mouth has lifted up.
So Emily and I decide on a color to put on the mouth to make it look discolored and diseased.
We're making it work.
- How you doing? - Okay.
There are a lot of final details.
I need to get her lips on, get her some lashes, get her eyebrows on.
I'm trying to make it read that it's a lavender old-age makeup, if that makes any sense at all.
Ten minutes! [dramatic music.]
- That's time! - Whoo.
[tense music.]
I think Melissa and I are a little worried about going too far, but we took a risk, so hopefully that pays off.
This might be the stupidest thing I've ever made.
[laughs.]
[tense music.]
Good evening, everyone.
Welcome to the "Face Off" reveal stage.
Tonight, unfortunately, we will be sending home another team.
But before we get down to business, let's say hello to our series judges Owner of Alchemy Studios, Glenn Hetrick Good evening.
- Hello.
- Hey, Glenn.
Oscar and Emmy award-winning makeup artist Ve Neill - Hi, guys.
- Hey.
- Hello.
- Hi, Ve.
And, of course, creature and concept designer Neville Page.
- Hello.
- Hi, Neville.
Okay, guys, let's get to it.
For this week's Spotlight Challenge, we asked you to select two models and use them to create a comedic fantasy duo fit for an epic adventure film.
So let's take a look at your comical duos.
[lighthearted music.]
The fairy looks really, really purply.
But it does sell the point.
I'm looking over at the judges.
I see a little smiling, so they at least get it's humor.
I'm really happy with our characters.
They're fun, but they're not as clean as I would like, so I just hope we're in a good spot.
They're very contrasting, which is risky.
But these characters do work well together, so I think we've pulled it off.
I am slightly worried about the paint job 'cause it still does look a little flat.
But I'm feeling like we really nailed these two characters.
I'm really happy with the balance that we've struck between funny and serious.
And I feel like that reads visually.
So hopefully the judges will pick up on that.
[tense music.]
All right, judges, why don't you go ahead and take a closer look? What do you suppose this is? I think they're just starting to petrify, which I love.
Yeah, 'cause, look, he's even got a little sunburn around his nose.
I wish the sculpture was just a little bit more accurate.
It's very flat.
Could have been a lot better with a little sheen.
There's nothing that says "fairy" to me.
They glued some wings on, but it's missing all of the cool sculptural things you could have done to make it feel like a fairy.
I don't get this character at all.
The hair is awesome.
I like the colors.
I love the palette.
From a distance, this has a really great read.
Oh, yeah.
These guys are not afraid of hair.
I love it.
It's really cool.
- Yeah.
- I love this character.
There's so much play with the proportions.
It's very successful.
It's beautiful.
I don't like the glasses.
I wish that the design came down around her eyes and on to her nose a little bit more so that it gave us more of a makeup.
But I like the fin, but that's about it.
I'm very nervous, especially since this is an elimination challenge and I know that the makeup is a problem.
So I'm not sure where Logan and I are gonna stand.
All right, guys, it's time to get on Twitter and tell us who made your favorite comedic fantasy duo, using FaceOff.
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It feels like they're working against themselves.
The colors that are there are garishly applied.
Our makeups aren't obviously funny.
So I'm not sure where Logan and I are gonna stand.
This is completely embracing the exact proportions of the bodysuit and bringing it to the forefront.
I love this little bit right here.
It just gives his mouth that extra little bit of grossness.
Mm-hmm.
Is this part of her head up here? - Looks like a beehive.
- Mm-hmm.
- A literal beehive.
- Oh.
I really do like the shapes.
It's just the texturing and wrinkling is where it falls apart.
He's pretty fantastic up close.
Yeah, beautiful transitions.
But then there's really nice little stippling between the two colors.
[dramatic music.]
This is one of the best uses of silicone I've seen on the show.
- Oh, yeah.
- It's really well done.
This is really great, all this up in here.
It doesn't feel like there's a bodysuit that they had to try to figure out how to work with.
It looks like they created a character that the bodysuit goes with.
That's right.
And that's the core of the challenge.
Thank you.
Okay, the judges would like to speak with each of you before making their decisions.
Ben and Evan, you're up first.
Tell me about how you used the bodysuits to drive the creation of these characters.
The body on this informed me that she was probably very much older.
And then for the Minotaur, there wasn't much with the suit except just kind of a muscle structure, so it made him look a little bigger.
This is a top-notch, class A Minotaur makeup.
Thank you.
The comedy element is very present.
And beautiful paint job on the Minotaur.
Thank you.
I didn't even realize that was a beehive on her head until I got really close.
Unfortunately, from a distance, none of it reads like that, which is kind of a shame.
But I think the Minotaur is fantastic.
I especially like the little addition of where his horn broke off and you stuck that back on there with that bracket.
- Good job, guys.
- Thanks.
One of the things I love about the bull, in particular, is it doesn't feel like it's a sculpture around an actor's eyes.
It feels integrated.
And all the design ideas are really great.
Ben and Evan, please step back.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, guys.
Good job.
Good job.
George and Cig, please step forward.
Oof.
Please tell us how you used your bodysuits in the creation of your fantasy couple.
The bodysuit for our dwarf was really, like, saggy.
There was a lot of weight.
So we wanted to do more of like an age makeup.
And our ogre was about the same.
We had this big belly, so we had to do something with it.
I got to say that the old-age on your dwarf is pretty darn special, guys.
Thanks.
I think it's probably one of the best use of silicone we've ever seen on the show.
Yeah! As far as your ogre goes, I noticed that you even used silicone on his stomach Mmhmm.
Which is kind of cool because it looks really great.
Your dwarf is just the most sublime embodiment of a fantasy dwarf.
You've done such a good job of making it feel organic and gave me a laugh.
Magnificent.
- Thank you so much.
- Thank you.
Appreciate it.
The biggest success you could have in this particular challenge is all about working with the proportions of the bodysuits that you were given.
You could not have done that better.
Both: Thank you.
George and Cig, please step back.
Great work, guys.
Keaghlan and Melissa, please step forward.
- Keaghlan, Melissa - Hi.
Tell us about your undersuit-inspired characters.
The usual fairy you see is, you know, slender and beautiful and pristine.
But I wanted to make her look older, and then Well, our troll has a big belly, and so we also went the old-age route, like things are starting to sag.
But also, it really suited his troll-ness.
The fairy feels very chalky and flat and one-dimensional.
The troll There's a healthy jawline connected to a fat body.
And that part feels a little bit inconsistent with the weight and the fleshiness that surrounds it.
On the fairy, you failed to capitalize on the canvas.
And her weird skin tone and colored eyebrows do not a fairy make.
I understand what you were going for, but it would have been a lot simpler to just make her look a little pudgy and not make her look old.
And then you tried to paint her purple on top of it, which was a big boo-boo.
Keaghlan and Melissa, please head back.
It's okay.
Emily and Tyler, please step up.
Tell us about your concept.
She's this cave-dwelling goblin.
And she's out to steal the king's crown.
She meets this faun.
And so they're on this journey, and because he's half-goat, he eats part of the map, and that's where they're at.
The faun is absolutely stunning.
Yes.
[Giggles.]
His face is so compelling.
And the goblin character I really like the colors, and there's a lot of detailed breakup.
And that's why it's successful this week.
Great work, guys.
Both: Thank you.
I think your faun, by far, is my favorite character out here tonight.
He's so big, and he's so fabulous.
I want to take him home.
I need a pet.
[laughs.]
They are harmonious in your choice of costuming, the palette, the weathering.
They work together.
Both: Thank you.
Emily and Tyler, please step back.
Thank you, guys.
Let's talk to Logan and Adam.
Good evening, guys.
Both: Hi.
Tell us how your bodysuits influenced your character design.
The orc character, we went more towards the animated route.
And for the naiad, she had enhanced breasts and enhanced buttocks, so that immediately read a bustle to me.
Your aquatic character could have been really gorgeous, but she's a little too silly.
She didn't even have to be all that kind of kooky.
And why would she be wearing glasses anyway? You know, she lives in a pond.
I do think the orc is pretty fantastic.
The forms on your naiad feel superfluous and arbitrary.
And the orc I would consider having the lips not be so pink, but solid character.
It's just they're not of the same production design world.
The naiad feels very underdeveloped to me.
I think there's a really cool idea here, but so wish you would have gotten rid of the goofy glasses and then did a makeup around her eyes.
The orc, on the other hand, is one of the most successful in taking the proportions of the bodysuit that you were given so that it looks like one unified element.
Thank you.
Logan and Adam, please step back.
All right, guys, if you'll please head back to the makeup room while the judges deliberate.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thanks, guys.
- Thanks.
All right, judges, so let's talk about tonight's makeups.
Why don't we start with Ben and Evan? I thought the Minotaur was fantastic, but the wood elf just didn't feel like it met the challenge.
It's not elf-y in any way, shape, or form other than pointed ears.
But the Minotaur was superb.
It really was, sculpturally, conceptually, paint-wise.
Right down to the moistness around the nose, the broken tip on the horn, which was a really clever idea.
All right, let's move on to Cig and George.
This is the best silicone appliance we've seen on the show.
But more important than any of that, the proportions themselves created the comedy.
And then they focused on just creating really great makeups that were a little bit more serious.
It was a perfect balance.
These guys are known to do things that are comedic.
And to be given the latitude to do comedy and show restraint, that, to me, was their greatest choice.
All right, let's move on to Emily and Tyler.
I love the faun.
It was fantastic.
I loved the paint job and the hair work and everything on that character.
The compassionate, emotive nature makes it so stunning.
What they did was harmonize the buddy characters.
Both of them work so well together as a team.
Okay, let's move on to Keaghlan and Melissa.
The fairy, for me, just failed miserably to take into consideration the proportions of the bodysuit and do anything interesting with it.
If you're gonna paint it lavender, don't do it all one color lavender.
It was flat, and she looked like a lavender mummy, and that is not funny.
Although I did like elements of the blacksmith from last week, they have not been moving forward creatively and successfully.
And lastly, Logan and Adam.
I'm not real happy with Adam's naiad.
He could have made her look a lot more whimsical by doing a beautiful makeup.
And she still could have been fun, especially working opposite him.
Even though I'm not thrilled with naiad, it's a big step up from where they were last week, with the stone mason.
These haven't been their greatest weeks, but they're getting better and better as we go.
All right, then, judges, have you made your decisions? - Yes, we have.
- Yep.
Let's bring 'em back out.
Okay, Glenn, who is our winning team? The winning team tonight is McKenzie: The winner of "Face Off: All-Stars" will receive a VIP trip from Kryolan Professional Make-up to one of their 85 international locations, a brand-new Hyundai Veloster, and $100,000.
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Okay, Glenn, who is our winning team? The winning team tonight is [dramatic music.]
George and Cig.
[laughs.]
[applause.]
[upbeat rock music.]
You guys nailed everything about this challenge Comedic storytelling, character design, beautiful makeups.
Crazy good job, guys.
Both: Thanks.
This is our third win, and it feels great.
Yeah, it really does.
I think we did some really top-notch work, and I'm glad that the judges saw that.
Congratulations, George and Cig.
Great job this week.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
All right, Glenn, who's going home tonight? The team going home tonight is [pensive rock music.]
Keaghlan and Melissa.
Ultimately, we couldn't overlook how rough certain aspects of your characters were tonight.
Keaghlan and Melissa, I'm so sorry, but you have been eliminated.
That means the rest of you are safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
Thank you.
I'm very proud of having had the opportunity to witness your talents again.
And I feel pretty confident in saying that I'm gonna get to witness them in the future.
[sniffles, crying.]
I'm just so grateful to be back, and every day that I got to be here was another dream come true.
Keaghlan and Melissa, it's been so great having you back with us again this season.
But if you'll please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kits.
- Good luck, guys.
- [sniffles.]
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
I'm proud of everything we accomplished.
- [laughs.]
We did do a lot.
- Yeah, we did.
My mom is the reason that I do what I do today.
She inspired me to be a creative person.
So that makeup was for her.
It's really great to have a second chance to show my work.
And I think it's wonderful that I was considered an All-Star.
And I know that my family will be very proud.