Last night was the first look at “Foxy and Co.” a show
featuring 4 past contestants of Face off who have come together in order to
achieve special effects greatness, and have a few good times along the
way. The stars of the shows include Eric
Fox, Nicole Chilelli, Rj Haddy, and Roy Wooley from various seasons of Face Off
who all come to the table with a various assortment of skills and trades. Just based on watching these 4 interact I
already am pushing for this show to be a real thing! They start the show by testing a melting
face! I mean seriously how do you top
having your face melted off as an opening act?!
Well after a brief welcome to the effects studio the team
goes through a checklist of projects that they have to get through for a Zombie
project about Zach: The Zombie
Exterminator which includes a zombie dog, a gigantic fat zombie suit, a
pool skimmer zombie decapitation device and a blood spray system that leaks
green ooze. Yeah comparatively speaking,
my job blows. In addition to the Zombie
order, Nicole is presenting an idea for a breast cancer superhero for the Susan
G. Komen foundation.
This was very heart wrenching for me after my scare last
year, and I know it’s unfair but Foxy would have gotten my vote for that
alone. Her sketches include a dress made
from the survivor ribbon as well as beautiful red boots and a beauty makeup to
kick cancers ass! Needless to say, she
gets the job and the excitement in me swells.
In preparation for the design of the superhero Nicole
meets with a cancer survivor who explains that she has just finished another
round of chemo after finding cancer a second time. By this time in my house, I’m getting way too
emotional… I’m a chick, it’s what we do.
Nicole decides to honor the young woman by making the wig of the
superhero removable which I believe was daring but, totally necessary. All women are beautiful, despite what life
throws at you!
Nothing however could have prepped me for the
reveal. After a wardrobe malfunction
they get it together in a flash and the photographer clicks away at a beautiful
superhero that is ready to fight this evil.
That would have been, and trust me was enough, to make my eyes serge
tears of joy if it hadn’t been for the wig coming off. I lost my cool completely. What she did with that character needs to be
everywhere. It was strong and inspiring,
proving that any woman is more than the looks on the outside but is the sum of
her strength, grace and poise! Well done
Nicole! Well Done!
Back in the studio RJ and Roy make me wish I had followed
my dreams into makeup as they test out various ways to make gooey, runny zombie
blood. Life is so unfair isn’t it?! More important however, is how this concoction
is to be sprayed when the Zombies are being killed. After several hilarious and I’m guessing
delicious by watching RJ’s sampling, attempts they settle on a fire extinguisher. Now what do you do with a fire extinguisher
full of green goop? Spray it all over
your friends… duh. As Foxy soon finds
out, See why I’m jealous?
The next item on the list requires the whole three man
team as they prep a bod casting of the actor who with play a junk yard Zombie
of considerable size and wrinkle. What I
loved about this is that they really took you through what it takes to make a
mold and why this business can get so complicated so quickly. The mold itself seems to be the enemy in all
things special-effectsy, from the trouble in trying to get the full body mold
to the trouble of trying to free the mold, and after watching so many episodes
of face off… it just seems like molds suck.
I could be wrong now, but that always seemed to be the biggest obstacle.
At a preview of the effects the team shows off the pool
skimmer decapitation device. This thing
is wicked. Roy truly went to the quirky
killer place with this one. The trigger
activated saw uses the ring of the skimmer itself to slice through the zombies
head. Brilliant! Next we have the dog and RJ is all too eager
to please the client when he agrees to combine the dog with the Junk yard
zombie owner. What comes out is a zombie
choking on a zombie dog that is trying to escape his owners gut.
Altogether a great show that I hope gets picked
up. Go to the voting page and let’s keep
Foxy and Co. going because I think we all need a little laugh and more amazing
art in our lives! Go here, vote for Foxy!
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