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Sep. 11th, 2014 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leia131This week the contestants each picked a fake movie poster, with a fake picture, title, and tag line. Then they had to create the villain/monster from their movie, with the winning makeup being featured at Universal's Nights of Horror, or whatever that thing they do for Halloween is called.
The top looks were Cig, Rachael, and George.
Cig, The Second Chumming:
Cig's concept was a sea captain who had been killed by his crew and stuffed in a chum bucket, at which point he fused with the chum and became this thing. The judges loved the colors, the massive amount of work he must have done sculpting it, and how he made a new chin for the face, and used the model's chin as the thing's tongue.
You can kind of see the tongue/chin thing better here. The effect was pretty cool, and the judges said they'd never seen it before, but I keep getting distracted by how the eyes aren't integrated into the makeup. That's one of my Face Off pet peeves, and even though this is a guy fused with chum, so the human eyes under the mask may have been purposeful, it bugs me.
Rachael, Bone Appetit:
Rachael's idea was a baronness who invites guests to fancy dinner parties, and then eats them with her stomach mouth. Not the most original concept ever, but the execution is amazing. The flaps around the mouth actually opened and flexed, because they were attached to the model's fingers with fishing line (or something equally thin and invisible). They moved when she wiggled her fingers, and it was pretty awesome.
Not gonna lie, the face is also pretty terrifying. I would not go to a dinner party hosted by this chick.
George, Axe Girlfriend:
This was the winning look, and when you see the close-up you;ll understand why. George's concept was a girlfriend who's lover had tried to kill her by shooting her in the head, and now she has an axe and is back for revenge! Again, not the most original idea, but that wasn't the challenge. I also don't know why she's dressed as a French maid, but whatever.
Absolutely horrifying. This thing is going to scare the shit out of people at Universal.
Oh, well if you look at George's poster, I guess that's where he got the French maid thing from:
The bottom looks were Dina, Keaghlan, and Sasha. This was hard for me, because Dina and Sasha are two of my favs.
Dina, The Cloven:
Dina's poster was just a hoof shooting up out of the ground, with a tagline about it being too hot in hell, and I don't know why she went with reindeer. My first thought was goat, but she fixated on the 'too hot' part I guess? Anyway, this is a reindeer who likes to kill elves. I don't know why. It didn't come out very well at ALL, and the judges were especially displeased with the hooves, which should have been the focus of the creature in a move called The Cloven.
Dina had a lot of trouble with this sculpt, and you can tell. The ear neckalce is a nice touch though.
Here's Dina's poster:
I still don't know why she went with a reindeer. Even just a regular deer would have been better.
Keaghlan, The Homecoming Scream:
Keaghlan was too ambitious with this challenge. Her idea was a girl who was the victim of a prank gone wrong, who somehow ended up with her head twisted around backwards. This didn't work, because there's no way to convey that with a human model unless you build her fake feet and hands, or a mask on the back of her head. As it is, it looks like she just has her dress on backwards. The sculpting of the spine on her front and breasts on her back didn't come out very well, AND Keaghlan accidentally put the sash on the wrong side.
The judges didn't get it, and I just think it was too big of an idea to do properly in the short time. Like, that lump on her sternum is supposed to be her spine showing through, but it just looks like a glob of poop stuck to her chest.
Sasha, Bonnie and Cyanide:
This one could have been so much more interesting based on the poster, but Sasha just went with (what was actually a disturbingly common theme) a murdered woman. Bonnie here has been poisoned (I presume with cyanide) and then built some kind of apparatus on her arms to then be able to inject others with the poison she was pulling from her blood. The concept is... off, but I didn't actually think this makeup was all that bad. Well, apart from the random neon colors in the poison blood, which just make no damn sense at all.
Here's Sasha's poster:
I think this had so much more potential than 'murdered woman'. Like, the tagline is 'A Toxic Romance', and someone is proposing, and then Sasha just went with 'dead wife killing people'. The poster's idea would have been better served by some kind of murderous couple or stockholm syndrome thing.
The judges hated the way she did the veins, and I guess they weren't anatomically accurate, but the face is extremely evocative to me. I thought Dina's was way worse, but it was Sasha who got eliminated... For about five seconds. Then the judges used their special save to give her a second chance, so YAY! No one had to go home, and I was pleased. I think this was the right decision, because both Sasha and Dina have done waaaay better than this, and were just having an off week. Plus, I love them, so I'm biased.
Next week they're making GI Joes. I am intrigued by this.
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Date: 2014-09-11 09:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-11 11:11 pm (UTC)I look forward to discussing the Castle season premiere with you after that weekend. :D
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Date: 2014-09-11 11:47 pm (UTC)