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KIT HAGS
Jun 5, 2007
Stay sweet
You guys, I think about this at night. I just don't understand.

http://www.syfy.com/faceoff/photos/face_off_s06_e0608_spotlight_challenge?id=2

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Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost





Reminds me of those guys who wear latex "lady suits" and dance around on Youtube a la Buffalo Bill.

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Maera Sior posted:

With the nose and chin prosthetics on, he had a striking resemblance to Bill Murray.

Count me as one of the people who were disappointed by this episode. I hate animegao and think it's the stuff of nightmares, so why did both girls (and some of the boys) think it was a good idea? Daran actually hit fairly close to some of the more surreal and symbolic stuff out there (Paprika and Mononoke come to mind) and I thought his makeup was clearly the best of the lot.

Yeah. It reminded me of Miyazaki's work, too. I was thinking more spirited away, probably because of the fish and because I just like spirited away better. At least he didn't go for Ponyo. That character is the thing of nightmares. There's some line in it where an old lady is scared of Ponyo because she's a fish with a human face. I'm like, "NO! The creepy part is the hair! It's a fish with loving hair!"

Edit: Too bad they didn't have any assistants who could actually tie obi. That seems like something they really should have thought of.

Bored fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Mar 7, 2014

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Coconut Indian posted:

How the poo poo is Chloe safe?

I absolutely believe the conversation went like this:

Suits: We can't get rid of one of the last girls in the competition already!
Judges: But that poo poo is horrendous, what the gently caress? How can we kick off someone over this poo poo?
Suits: Make it happen.

And thus, the "Make her safe but special immunity the person who clearly was not the worst out there so at least that people don't get annoyed with this bullshit" happened. I'd bet money on it. The second I saw it I actually called both the fact they wouldn't kick her for it, and that they might avoid kicking anyone instead.

I'm convinced if it had been anyone else that churned out that thing, they'd been gone with ridicule.

EDIT: There's no way they'd put her in bottom looks and then revived her instead, because that'd been wayyyyy too obvious.

Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Mar 7, 2014

Caitlin
Aug 18, 2006

When I die, if there is a heaven, I will spend eternity rolling around with a pile of kittens.
It's also almost like this poo poo is subjective. :aaaaa:

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Caitlin posted:

It's also almost like this poo poo is subjective. :aaaaa:

And it's almost as if we're expressing our own subjective opinions in response! As if that was the entire point of this thread!! :aaaaa: :aaaaa:


Chloe's work was awful in terms of technique and craftsmanship so it was also bad on an objective level.

Caitlin
Aug 18, 2006

When I die, if there is a heaven, I will spend eternity rolling around with a pile of kittens.
And on an objective level that armor was made of craft foam and had drippy sloppy streaks over it. Like, it was nearly construction paper armor. Laughably terrible and zero effort. At the very least Chloe put in the effort to make a COMPLETE makeup, atrocious as it may have been, that was on subject. That pseudo armor sloppy outfit thing with the off-theme face sculpt was just ugh.

Fejsze
May 13, 2013

Only you are the fish of my dreams

Caitlin posted:

And on an objective level that armor was made of craft foam and had drippy sloppy streaks over it. Like, it was nearly construction paper armor. Laughably terrible and zero effort. At the very least Chloe put in the effort to make a COMPLETE makeup, atrocious as it may have been, that was on subject. That pseudo armor sloppy outfit thing with the off-theme face sculpt was just ugh.

Oh I don't think anyone is trying to defend the "armor"

I think we're all just trying to get our heads around how Chloe's wasn't right next to him. It's one thing to have a sloppy unfinished mess, another to have an unholy abomination against God.

chapstickie
Apr 30, 2011
I know the judges probably would have had a fit but I would have loved to see someone vaccuuform an entire face. It would have been the only way to get those smooth anime girl faces to not look horrifying. Sculpted like they were, they looked like they both had faces full of cystic acne covered in concealer. A vaccuuform face would have been smooth and symmetrical. Those big plastic eyes jammed unevenly into that lumpy skin were nightmare inducing.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
Episode 9: "Mad Science"
Airdate: March 11, 2014
Spotlight Challenge: The artists must play the role of a scientist to create an experiment gone wrong.


Judging from the last episode I'm pretty certain that the contestants can fulfill the make something that looks like it went wrong requirement for this challenge. :v:

KIT HAGS
Jun 5, 2007
Stay sweet
Glen is still sporting the anime hair.

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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Corinne's model looks like poop is coming out of everywhere.

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.
I didn't catch the beginning. Did Chloe get cat poop for her subject?

General Ironicus
Aug 21, 2008

Something about this feels kinda hinky
Tyler is really not getting his due. His was the superior double-face. And a rough week for Rashaad, my poor boys.

General Ironicus fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Mar 12, 2014

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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General Ironicus posted:

Tyler is really not getting his due. His was the superior double-face. And a rough week for Rashaad, my poor boys.

Totally agree, Tyler is awesome and has been kicking out killer stuff all season. Luckily for Rashaad, though, Corinne made Mr. Shitslave so he's safe.

She did kinda get screwed with having a loving worm while everyone else had these brutal hacksaws and giant syringes and poo poo, but yeah, she hosed up bad.

I dunno how Nico keeps skating by, his paintjob consistently looks like it's been sandblasted or something.

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




This is the second time Nico should have been eliminated, and he wasn't even in the bottom! gently caress Nico!

Kloaked00
Jun 21, 2005

I was sitting in my office on that drizzly afternoon listening to the monotonous staccato of rain on my desk and reading my name on the glass of my office door: regnaD kciN

Not sure what Ve was talking about with saying Corinne did a good job with the appliances. Especially with the nose, there were really obvious creases that looked baaad. Not that it matters I guess

Captain Equinox
Sep 15, 2005

By day a mild-mannered college professor, by night Kiki, go-go dancer at the Pussycat Club. But twice a year, he's... CAPTAIN EQUINOX!

LabyaMynora posted:

Nico should have been eliminated

Although Niko's concept was terrible ("I'm worried some people might be offended." Really? You're concerned that your abortion-ific monstrosity might be offensive?) and the face sculpt was horrendous, there is no way Corinne's booger-monster was getting a pass this week.

Dr Zaius
Jan 2, 2001

Smells Like Team Spirit
I still really don't get why the judges love Darren's work so much every week. Something about his concepts always look dumb to me. Thought Tyler's was the best this week.

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug
Thought the best one was actually Corinne's sculpt. That dude just looked tortured, and the others came off as generic with no sense of pain or suffering for what was done to them.

chapstickie
Apr 30, 2011

Philthy posted:

Thought the best one was actually Corinne's sculpt. That dude just looked tortured, and the others came off as generic with no sense of pain or suffering for what was done to them.

That was Corrine's model, not her scupt. He was selling it and that always makes a huge difference.

KIT HAGS
Jun 5, 2007
Stay sweet
She should've turned the guy into a leech and given him a lamprey looking mouth.

iastudent
Apr 22, 2008

Did anyone happen to watch what was on after Face Off last night?

I tuned in to the last 15 minutes and there's not a :stare: big enough.

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Seems to me the best way to do leeches is a mummy-looking guy with no blood left. Better than just a dude with some lil boogers stuck on him.

Cristatus
Apr 23, 2010

Mons Hubris posted:

Seems to me the best way to do leeches is a mummy-looking guy with no blood left. Better than just a dude with some lil boogers stuck on him.

I thought she was going to do a mutant man-leech, like the Flukeman from X-Files. The challenge was pretty loose -- McKenzie just said that their makeups had to be "inspired by" the medical devices. She never said "these devices have to be used on your patients." So I have no idea why Corrine chose a concept that would have next to no visual impact on the stage.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
I'm a little surprised that Michael Westmore didn't tell Corinne that she needed a bigger concept. But I had to laugh that she used most of her sculpting time to turn a nose into a slightly different nose and a chin into a slightly different chin. :bravo:

hamsystem
Nov 11, 2010

Fuzzy pickles!
Corrine has been skating by on a bare minimum of work with a good paint job, I don't think she could've handled anything more laborious than what she gave us. I'm just glad Rashaad is still in and hope he does something amazing soon .

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008

hamsystem posted:

Corrine has been skating by on a bare minimum of work with a good paint job, I don't think she could've handled anything more laborious than what she gave us. I'm just glad Rashaad is still in and hope he does something amazing soon .

I'm hoping he is more comfortable in the next one, hopefully Niko fucks up again and is gone finally.

Cavenagh
Oct 9, 2007

Grrrrrrrrr.

iastudent posted:

Did anyone happen to watch what was on after Face Off last night?

I tuned in to the last 15 minutes and there's not a :stare: big enough.

My Big Fat Geek Wedding?

Yeah, that was very mediocre. It looked like they had the wedding they wanted and had fun with it, but as a TV program it was so drat poor. Arranging a Geek themed wedding isn't going to be fundamentally different to arranging a standard wedding, only instead of going to Men's Wearhouse for a dreary tux get up, they go to a costume store. Find a dress, pick a location, choose decor, get in some entertainment etc etc. It's the same as most other weddings. And they treated it as such.

They had the televisual fake drama of will they find a dress in the one store they've gone to???? Of course they will and it'll be the third one as there's not really time with commercials to show them deciding between a dozen or more. So the first couple have to be utterly wrong and nothing like the brief the designer was given. Is the venue going to be able seat everyone, is the whole thing going to be delayed, is the dress going to be ready on time, will the father of the bride finally join in the festivities, can we stick in more of those obnoxious talking head moments where people pretend to be reacting to something that happened a while back as if it had just occurred. Wedding TV Ad nauseum.

Where they could have made it worth watching would have been to actually focus on the stuff like rehearsing the weak sword fight, finding or building the animatronic dragon, and there might have been another thing but it was all so bleak I've forgotten. Maybe they could have not pretended that it was all brought together by super wedding planner in just a few days. Just felt like schedule filler to fill the background. Very much TV by the numbers and dully insulting for it.

Ariza
Feb 8, 2006

hamsystem posted:

Corrine has been skating by on a bare minimum of work with a good paint job, I don't think she could've handled anything more laborious than what she gave us. I'm just glad Rashaad is still in and hope he does something amazing soon .

Is she on barbiturates of some sort? The Suicide Girl last season was always off in her interviews (though she just sounded learning disabled), but Corrine always sounded like she had just pounded a bottle of cough syrup and was recounting something that happened when she was a kid.



















Has anyone that has lasted this long had such a small range? She's the anti-Roy.

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry
I am so glad to see Corrine gone. She never showed any visible passion for her work.

Ariza
Feb 8, 2006

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

I am so glad to see Corrine gone. She never showed any visible passion for her work.

It's especially bad this season with Tyler, who seems to love every challenge so much and everything that's happening around him. No matter what happens with the show I'm sure he's guaranteed steady work for the rest of his life due to how positive and gung-ho he is about every challenge. I don't know much about their world, but I imagine being on Face/Off is about as famous as most makeup people get. I couldn't name more than 2 make-up artists that have ever worked (Rick Baker & Tom Savini), but I can think of a dozen that have been on this show over the years. I don't think I'm on the fringe with that lack of knowledge either.

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry
All the artists left this season (even Chloe) look like they really want to be there and that they are busting their asses. Chloe and Nico are the weakest, but even they have come up with great stuff.

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008
Is that Zorg/Fox make up show on for next week after Face Off before the Jim Henson Muppet Factory starts?

angerbot
Mar 23, 2004

plob

Kloaked00 posted:

Not sure what Ve was talking about with saying Corinne did a good job with the appliances. Especially with the nose, there were really obvious creases that looked baaad. Not that it matters I guess

I assume she meant the straps? They seemed well done. It's always weird to me that some models emote and some don't. Leech boy and Ribcage guy were both acting while electricity girl who asked in last looks what she should be doing just stood there. Editing I guess.

I question the idea of poor taste in regards to Nico's fetus (although that face was poor taste.) It's a mad scientist horror show, not the Easter parade. No one is batting an eye at exposed ribcages and electro torture.

Ariza
Feb 8, 2006

angerbeet posted:

I assume she meant the straps? They seemed well done. It's always weird to me that some models emote and some don't. Leech boy and Ribcage guy were both acting while electricity girl who asked in last looks what she should be doing just stood there. Editing I guess.

I question the idea of poor taste in regards to Nico's fetus (although that face was poor taste.) It's a mad scientist horror show, not the Easter parade. No one is batting an eye at exposed ribcages and electro torture.

If he had just said she was supposed to have a creepy doll face for whatever reason, it would have been so much better. If that was his attempt at a human woman in anguish he really doesn't deserve to be on this show. The baby looked really good before he painted it, but he loving ruined it. Was that a premade prop?

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008

angerbeet posted:

I assume she meant the straps? They seemed well done. It's always weird to me that some models emote and some don't. Leech boy and Ribcage guy were both acting while electricity girl who asked in last looks what she should be doing just stood there. Editing I guess.

I question the idea of poor taste in regards to Nico's fetus (although that face was poor taste.) It's a mad scientist horror show, not the Easter parade. No one is batting an eye at exposed ribcages and electro torture.

I thought it was very double standards because they loved the hell out of Tate's bloody fetus thing last season.

chapstickie
Apr 30, 2011
I think if there had been less slippery red blood and umbilical cord twisted in her hands it wouldn't have come off so badly to the judges. Or if the baby had been a monster. Despite it being a torture challenge I could see why a mother holding her dead baby with all that blood might seem a little offensive. Proximity, ya know? The fetus eating troll didn't have the mother right there. Also, a monster baby would have been so much better and made more sense in a mad scientist challenge, like if it were a mermaid or a werewolf or had wings or something.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

KungFu Grip posted:

Is that Zorg/Fox make up show on for next week after Face Off before the Jim Henson Muppet Factory starts?

Yep, it screens Tuesday March 18 on Syfy (10-9 p.m. ET)

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KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Yep, it screens Tuesday March 18 on Syfy (10-9 p.m. ET)

Good, I think Syfy is basically testing with these past few shows as pilots to see which do well. I'm hoping Zorg's show gets picked up if they do actually plan on doing it full time.

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