We made it to the finale!
Last night was the season finale of Face Off and in the spirit of the
competition, it promised to be daunting and grandiose. In reality, however I was quite underwhelmed,
not unhappy, just disappointed. The
spotlight challenge was written in the stars, quite literally as the final
three were asked to create two rival alien species that inhabit a constellation. In addition to displaying a full newly
discovered race, the artists are asked to incorporate lights into the design
and make sure they are prepped to do a full athletic dance routine. The finished products will be preforming an ensemble
piece to “Lift me up” by DJ Ruskco.
With such “simple” demands, it seems only fair that they
get some help for our three remaining hopeful as they bring back some of the
more popular members of this season’s Face Off family. In teams of three, each dives head first into
sculpting their two dancing celestials.
It seems that the biggest lynch pin is going to be in the lights
themselves and how to integrate them into the design. My opinion, I would think it would be easiest
to figure out the light plan and then building the creature around it, still
the question is how much to use and where.
Tyler and his team of Graham and Chloe set to work in his
tradition of trying to get the faces run in the first day of Lab work. Unfortunately, due to the light placements,
they run out of time and Tyler seems crushed.
He has never, not run a mold in day one, and I can say that his ability
to do so up to this point was a huge advantage.
Still, the creations themselves show promise. Tyler decided to go with differing color palettes
from male to female, making his male a deep red color with sharp angular
features. The biggest success however,
is his treatment of the male’s body which looks organically hollow and shows
great with the strings of red dreads.
His female had a beautiful color treatment of blues and lavenders but,
as for the overall shape I found her to be lacking a real sense of complete
thought. They made her more feline, and
with the constellation Leo it made sense but she seemed so much smaller than
the male and therefore drowned out by him.
George decided to go with a coruscation theme with his aliens
from the whale constellation, and with his team of Corrine and Niko set to work
on building the two races based on a lighted center. Now the idea shows promise, however the
problem George ran into is twofold. First, the two aliens looked the same; there
was nothing to distinguish differing races such as shape or color of skin. The lights were different colors; however the
second problem lay with heavy chest paint so you could barely see the lights
let alone the color. The face sculpts
were beautiful, in fact on the close up I really enjoyed their face features
but there wasn’t enough variation to really set one a part from the other.
Rashaad, however had the short straw of the lab
experience this week. With his team of
Daren and Cat he set to work on his two Ursa Major dwellers only to have a
major production melt down when his females face mold didn’t have time to set,
therefore making it impossible to run foam and forcing him to use poly
foam. With the dance requirement, poly foam
is a huge set back because it doesn’t move as freely but, he has come too far
to give up now and decides to give it his all.
What comes of the gamble is a happy accident as a melted mold yields a
scar looking face, I love unplanned details!
As for the duo in final looks, these two are amazing! The male has a blue and purple paint that
accented a beautiful sharp and aggressive sculpt. He read every bit the imposing figure and the
body was a beautiful muscular sculpt that the pervious werewolf had lacked. The female, however outshined all of that,
quite literally as she was the only one that had a light effect with a bioluminescent
cranial structure. Yes, she had a glowy
head. She was practically angelic with a
sharp yellow paint that made her really pop into life.
After the display it was time for the dace, in which they
turned the light off. Sa all the TV viewer
got to see was poorly lit shadowy figures that really didn’t display
anything. Talk about a
disappointment. I really dislike
dubstep, so being forced to listen to it and knowing that I’m missing out on an
amazing performance really ticked me off.
In the end it was Rashaad’s beautiful female that really
took the prize home. His reaction, I don’t
think there could have possibly been a more genuine display of happiness and I
couldn’t help but feel it for him too.
Here’s proof that if you want it and push hard enough, anything is
possible! The real beauty of the moment
was the excitement that Tyler and George had for him. I have never seen such gracious runner ups
and slowly my faith in humanity was a bit restored. Great job Rashaad and we hope to see more and
more of you in the future!
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