Sorry I’m so late everyone, and by everyone I mean the
people that drift in and out, I’m finally getting a chance to sit down and get
this review out. So I, like all small
children had a dream, my dream was to make monsters. I wanted, with every little beat of my heart
to design those little things that seem to go bump in the night so loudly that
you hide under your blanket and pray for day light. Naturally, I became a book keeping mom. That’s close right?! So when Syfi put forth the series Face Off I was giddy, and then I watched
it… To date it has been a total hit and miss for me, there are nights where I
want to cry, it’s so beautiful, but most night I want to scream “What the fuck
are you thinking?!” Tuesday night was no
exception.
We open with the prospect of the season’s first
individual challenge. I’m actually
really excited that we are moving out of team challenges; it allows each person’s
work to flourish or fail. This week we
are doing dragons. Normally the “ren
faire” geek in me would squeal with unbridled passion; however I have never
truly been too much of a dragon fan.
True, they are huge scaled beasts of perpetual scaled, and fiery awesome
in theory, that theory does not translate well as a monster makeup. As a CGI or maybe an animation you don’t
worry about things like weight or physics, in a limitless world everything is
possible in the makeup game, you just have to make it look like anything is
possible (without ya know, breaking the laws of gravity, physics, nature in
general). The twist on these dragons is
that they breathe other things besides fire like Ice, slime, acid, sand blah
blah blah the explanation of the challenge never really thrills me. What I did like however is that they used “Point
Doom” to give out the challenge. Now
this is a famous spot for a few movie shots but the one that made my heart go
pitter-pat is that it is the scene backdrop of the last scene of the original Planet of the Apes film. Here are my props to you Face Off for your
use of epic location!
So off we go with our inspirations of crazy scaled
goodness, most of the creatures looking like human lizard hybrids on paper (muy
disappointing). This crop of monster
masters really seem to not be getting that the first day needs to be a firm step
into the molding room. It’s only week
three right?
So right away there is a major blunder/sin/boo boo what
have you, with Tess brilliantly sculpting only half the face for her quilled
disaster. Now she gets to play catch up
with the other side and try to make it seamless, good lick with that. Chloe seems to be very unconfident this
week, where is my sculptor from the first week?
This week she has a mold debacle and only has a head. Nicko’s chest breaks apart as he attempts to
remove it, safe to say everyone’s got molding issues this week. Everyone Tyler who as he puts last touches out
decides “hey I’ve got time, I’ll just sculpt the best wing profile ever in the
history of this show… no biggie.” The
models enter to be dressed and Chloe is scrambling to paint as Tess freaks out
about her broken leg pieces. These two
should never work together unless it’s being filmed for biggest whiners.
Chloe decides to cover half her makeup in rags and doesn’t
paint any of the back then drapes fabric all over the model. It’s a sea horse in a dress really. I have never been so disappointed in someone
with beautiful hair in my life. Let’s just
entitle the whole episode “How Chloe fails”, or even better “Sand Blasted Sea Horses
Caught in a Net of Ugly Green Chiffon…” the first on is probably best…
Tyler’s looks amazing, if you define amazing as a frozen
turkey buzzard. Literally, it looks like
a lizard mated with a buzzard on a glacier and the baby spits ice. The wing span and construct was pretty cool
though. I think he looked to the skessis
for inspiration.
Tess turned in a purple, quilled Halloween project from a
high school larper. You can see where the
face was applied, there is no caul, the model’s hair is sticking out of the
back of this oddly built feather headband.
I don’t even want to begin to understand where it was going.
Tanner turned in an angry red frog, with big chunks of
rock coming out of odd angles. What got
to me was that the bright yellow eyes were lop sided. It was a cool build, decently painted, and
presented effectively, but that run away eye killed it.
Rashad’s tarred beast seems to take up the stage. No really, shits big. I was impressed that he built up the
individual scales. I think that it shows
his versatility to work in differing mediums and gives him a chance to display
all his skills. He makes up for his lack
of experience with his ability to learn and utilize many differing
processes. Then he goes and gives it the
worst under-bite in history… Good job
bud… *Face palm*
Niko is a no go, picture a naked mole rat screwed a
porcupine and they had a terracotta pot colored baby. That’s all you can really say. There was effort in the sculpt, but for the
over work the rest just resisted coming together at all.
Matt, I have no words.
It was a cone head with scales. That’s
all.
Grahm I was completely against, I can admit that. In my defense he presented the idea that he
was going to build a slime-dog-lizard-bull-blegh, whatever that meant. I kept yelling “Man bear pig!” What he presented was horrifyingly
awesome. The slime, the puss sacks, the
green sick color… oh look it’s lunch time J.
George, who should have gone home last week! Dear, sweet George gave us a red and black
view of hell this week. He wanted to
embrace a hell, and fire, but I don’t know if it’s just me but all it did was
ring in as demon. Awesome looking demon,
and in some cultures they may be the same, but a dragon that was not.
Daran’s acid spitting thing shall be filed under reasons
to never wear fur pants. The concept was
there but the execution clearly was lacking.
I would have gone more into bone details, the bottom jaw just looks
unfinished. Try better next week man!
Daniel’s slime sea creature, because nothing about that
had anything to do with a dragon, just made life un-comfy with too much bright
yellow and time spent on sculpting what looked like fur-feather scales. To clash completely he dressed her in a tacky
floral kimono with no base in any realm of dragon. This saddened me because the drawings had
huge fins added to the face that would totally help.
Corinne’s monster/ dragon disaster looked like it was a
punk rock character from the show Dinosaurs,
and if you don’t know that show look into it on Net Flicks. The Mohawk of spiked weirdness sitting atop
an oddly shaped head just hurts…
Cat had my vote this week; I’m a sucker for ice and
sex. She brought forth a beautifully ice
sickled dragon slice of sex appeal. Then
I looked closer, the blending will bleed your eyes. So wrong… The coat was amazing though, so you
know there’s that.
Gallery of the dragon flops
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