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Derringer
Mar 17, 2008

yeah, what does that mean?

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Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Notgothic posted:

The first warning sign for me was when he said that their idea was that "gravity is expanding".

Exactly. And then from the drooping face I thought they meant it was increasing so her face was getting dragged down or something. But then there's weights which I would think would be for the opposite situation so... :shrug:

iastudent
Apr 22, 2008

Notgothic posted:

edit: ah, the face off timer, brought to you by KRYOLAN.

They did the same thing when it was Makeup Forever a couple seasons ago.

lifts cats over head
Jan 17, 2003

Antagonist: A bad man who drops things from the windows.
I think my current least favorite is Corrine. She just...talks...so...slow...

Notgothic
May 24, 2003

Thanks for the input, Jeff!

Regy Rusty posted:

Exactly. And then from the drooping face I thought they meant it was increasing so her face was getting dragged down or something. But then there's weights which I would think would be for the opposite situation so... :shrug:

And it's a willowy body, which implies light gravity to begin with. For someone who says he loves science fiction, I'm a little skeptical that this guy knows what he's talking about. Also, a little worried that Chloe was a flash in the pan.

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008
Gravity aliens hands are terrible.

edit: I like mushroom head.

Derringer
Mar 17, 2008

I don't like any of these :(

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.
I love the gelatin star-nose.


It's a poo poo demon!
Matt and what'sername's alien.

Bored fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Jan 22, 2014

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008

Bored posted:

I love the gelatin star-nose.


It's a poo poo demon!
Matt and what'sername's alien.

"Swamp Thing's nose works on Swamp Thing only."

Notgothic
May 24, 2003

Thanks for the input, Jeff!
Pretty sure Matt is toast.

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008

Notgothic posted:

Pretty sure Matt is toast.

Matt is hosed if he's in bottom again next week.

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

lifts cats over head posted:

I think my current least favorite is Corrine. She just...talks...so...slow...

That doesn't bother me so much. It seems like she's just so used to having to calm people down, that that's her default speed. She also looked really uncomfortable whenever Niko touched her.

KungFu Grip posted:

Matt is hosed if he's in bottom again next week.

We can hope.

Wow, all of these people on whatever this new show is called sound like assholes.

Bored fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jan 22, 2014

Magnus Condomus
Apr 23, 2010

Actually got my mother to sit and watch it with me tonight. We both agreed that the drought alien looked the best over all.

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

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

Actually got my mother to sit and watch it with me tonight. We both agreed that the drought alien looked the best over all.

Yeah, the drought alien was awesome. The back of his head was gorgeous. I loved those huge fleshy gland things on the icecap alien, though. I love alien challenges.


lifts cats over head posted:

I think my current least favorite is Corrine. She just...talks...so...slow...

She's the embodiment of :geno:.

"Yeah. umm. I was... really excited because..."

Dr Zaius
Jan 2, 2001

Smells Like Team Spirit

lifts cats over head posted:

I think my current least favorite is Corrine. She just...talks...so...slow...

You mean Lorraine Bracco?

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Derringer posted:

I don't like any of these :(

Nothing was really hilariously terrible and most of them would have worked fine as background characters in a scifi TV series but none of them really stood out either. The quality was fairly good overall but nothing really grabbed me. Daran and Tanner's alien with the silicone bits on top if the latex mask had a great face but needed more to push it into the next level and Rashaad and Tyler's gluttonous Toader seemed promising right up until final looks and then it turned into this:

Hmmm. Nope. The cowl and the armour are actually really nice but that face just isn't doing them any favours.


iastudent posted:

Hey OP, where's the goddamn memorial? :colbert:

I cribbed most of my OP from your old OP but I didn't want to swipe the entire thing wholesale so I left a few things out. :smithcloud:

Ariza
Feb 8, 2006

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Nothing was really hilariously terrible and most of them would have worked fine as background characters in a scifi TV series but none of them really stood out either. The quality was fairly good overall but nothing really grabbed me. Daran and Tanner's alien with the silicone bits on top if the latex mask had a great face but needed more to push it into the next level and Rashaad and Tyler's gluttonous Toader seemed promising right up until final looks and then it turned into this:

Hmmm. Nope. The cowl and the armour are actually really nice but that face just isn't doing them any favours.


I cribbed most of my OP from your old OP but I didn't want to swipe the entire thing wholesale so I left a few things out. :smithcloud:

Did they show who painted that face and added the stupid loving blood coming from its mouth? I sorta missed the last looks part, but their sculpture looked pretty good and then that horrible abomination stepped out.

iastudent
Apr 22, 2008

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I cribbed most of my OP from your old OP but I didn't want to swipe the entire thing wholesale so I left a few things out. :smithcloud:

No worries. She had her time, someday someone worthy will step up on the pedestal. :unsmith:

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug
I don't know how anyone didn't just crack up at the penishead the entire time.

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008

Philthy posted:

I don't know how anyone didn't just crack up at the penishead the entire time.

poo poo we have had a monster with tits on his head and one that had a penis for a head didn't we. Lets hope we get a butt head and and vagina head too.

Notgothic
May 24, 2003

Thanks for the input, Jeff!

KungFu Grip posted:

poo poo we have had a monster with tits on his head and one that had a penis for a head didn't we. Lets hope we get a butt head and and vagina head too.

Well, that dry alien had a crack anyway. :downsrim:

One thing that kind of bugged me last night, sort of like the "why do these Beasts look like where they live?" last week: why do the aliens on this show always look like they got their clothes where Tusken Raiders shop? They're supposed to be advanced enough to come to Earth and leave crop circles, or shoot a crop-circle beam from wherever they live, or whatever, so why are they hanging around in (often tattered) robes, and otherwise looking like they're barely out of the Stone Age? That Toader turned out kinda bad at the last second, but he at least had sort of a 70s-era alien foot soldier look going for him.

I suspect it's one of those shortcuts that you take when it's early in the season and you're getting used to the whole "you have three days to build something" situation, but it comes off kind of cheaty to me.

anotherone
Feb 8, 2001
Username taken, please choose another one
Can this also be the thread for Opposite Worlds? If you haven't watched it a guy broke his leg yesterday and a woman basically got hypothermia tonight. Someone is literally going to die.

anotherone fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Jan 23, 2014

Notgothic
May 24, 2003

Thanks for the input, Jeff!

anotherone posted:

Can this also be the thread for Opposite Worlds? If you haven't watched it a guy broke his leg yesterday and a woman basically got hypothermia tonight. Someone is literally going to die.

We've had a couple of posts in the general SyFy thread about it; it's pretty good, as these things go. I missed tonight's episode though, didn't realize anything huge went down on Wednesdays each week other than someone getting sent home. Was there more stun-stick gladiatorial combat?

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Notgothic posted:

One thing that kind of bugged me last night, sort of like the "why do these Beasts look like where they live?" last week: why do the aliens on this show always look like they got their clothes where Tusken Raiders shop? They're supposed to be advanced enough to come to Earth and leave crop circles, or shoot a crop-circle beam from wherever they live, or whatever, so why are they hanging around in (often tattered) robes, and otherwise looking like they're barely out of the Stone Age? That Toader turned out kinda bad at the last second, but he at least had sort of a 70s-era alien foot soldier look going for him.

I suspect it's one of those shortcuts that you take when it's early in the season and you're getting used to the whole "you have three days to build something" situation, but it comes off kind of cheaty to me.

Yeah totally. The costume is often just a frame for their sculptural/painting work and sometimes it's even used to try and hide their gently caress ups. When the creatures are from Earth they can at least get the wardrobe people to get them some interesting clothes but when the contest is off planet they either need to manufacture something themselves or just cover the unpainted areas with generic material with some sort of texture to it as best they can, which often ends up being a ratty cloak or a bundle of rags. Sometimes they'll put some generic human clothing on their aliens (one had a lycra bodysuit this episode, I've seen some in fancy formal dresses), sometimes the costume is just a complete afterthought and they just put the bare minimum on there and then sometimes you'll get contestants like Roy who'll construct a complete suit of battle armour seemingly out of nowhere.

Notgothic
May 24, 2003

Thanks for the input, Jeff!
Yeah, on the alien who won the robe was obviously there because they thought it was the easiest way that the judges could see the sculpting job on the chest. Which, it was a good sculpting job and I wouldn't want them to cover it up, it just kind of took me out of it that no one, not even the winner, was wearing a space suit.

Actually, I'd really like to see someone do an extraterrestrial robot for one of the alien challenges, some time. It would've worked pretty well for a few of the crop circle "messages" on this one, and maybe gotten some points for imagination. "Running out of water" and the robot shows signs of a runaway uncooled power source, like a glowing chest (or wherever you want the reactor to be), plating beginning to distort with the heat. Or "our sun is dying" and the robot is covered in solar panels, with one arm as some sort of device for siphoning power out of unsuspecting helpful humans. Or "gravity is changing" and the robot is all accordioned and/or built-up in places, which would be kind of neat for implying a formerly very non-human shape that got squashed together.

That might be a little too Roy/Zorg for anyone else to pull it off in time. Maybe one of these days, though.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

The aliens were on dying planets (except for the toad), why would they have nice clothes? When you're struggling to find resources or battling disease, chemicals, or the laws of physics to stay alive, jaunting down the block to the alien gap so you look your best for a photo shoot isn't high on your priority list.

Magnus Condomus
Apr 23, 2010

IcePhoenix posted:

The aliens were on dying planets (except for the toad), why would they have nice clothes? When you're struggling to find resources or battling disease, chemicals, or the laws of physics to stay alive, jaunting down the block to the alien gap so you look your best for a photo shoot isn't high on your priority list.
Season 1 had that backwards quadrupedal pregnant alien with no clothes.

Cristatus
Apr 23, 2010

Magnus Condomus posted:

Season 1 had that backwards quadrupedal pregnant alien with no clothes.

Sometimes, I really miss Tate.

And I think the reason why very few people attempt robots is because rigid, man-made forms are harder for most people to sculpt than organic forms. Look how much trouble everyone had with the Tin Man back in the season 2 premier. It's also easier to hide imperfections on organic-looking prosthetics when you're quickly sculpting by hand (and we know how much Glenn hates unintentional asymmetry).

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Cristatus posted:

Sometimes, I really miss Tate.

That one time in season 1 where he won the spotlight challenge and he ran around hugging and high-fiving everyone in the room is still one of the most :3: things I've ever seen on TV.

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

That one time in season 1 where he won the spotlight challenge and he ran around hugging and high-fiving everyone in the room is still one of the most :3: things I've ever seen on TV.

He really is just a massive sweetheart, though. At least from everything they showed on tv.

angerbot
Mar 23, 2004

plob

IcePhoenix posted:

The aliens were on dying planets (except for the toad), why would they have nice clothes? When you're struggling to find resources or battling disease, chemicals, or the laws of physics to stay alive, jaunting down the block to the alien gap so you look your best for a photo shoot isn't high on your priority list.

I liked the mushroom-sickness guy's robes because they looked kind of medical to me for some reason, probably a star-trek based one.

Icecap-melting lady wearing really really long robes to hide her human feet was stupid though, because you know that hem is going to be constantly soaking.

Wasn't one of them in what was essentially a bathrobe? I guess they don't have a lot of control over the wardrobe, and don't really get judged on it unless it's specifically part of the challenge.

Factor Mystic
Mar 20, 2006

Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
I loved seeing how they made those mushrooms. The season's off to a good start.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
Episode 3: "Dragon's Breath"
Airdate: January 28, 2014
Spotlight Challenge: In the artists' first individual challenge, they must create an original dragon.

iastudent
Apr 22, 2008

This could be really cool, as long as they don't pull the same card they did with the werewolves challenge. :v:

Notgothic
May 24, 2003

Thanks for the input, Jeff!

iastudent posted:

This could be really cool, as long as they don't pull the same card they did with the werewolves challenge. :v:

Although the specific twist from the werewolves challenge would've worked better for this, since the creatures in question are generally known for flying.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

iastudent posted:

This could be really cool, as long as they don't pull the same card they did with the werewolves challenge. :v:

Hmm, let's see what FX-laden films are coming out soon that they might try to shill .... The Lego Movie, Vampire Academy, Robocop ... ah, there we go. Contestants will have to create a dragon inspired by iconic 80s movies. Can't wait for the Breakfast Club dragon.
Guest judge is a drunk Paul Verhoeven.

Magnus Condomus
Apr 23, 2010

Now I want Wes Anderson as a judge.

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

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I want to see them make life size Lego dragon characters.

Tree Dude
May 26, 2012

AND MY SONG IS...
Sexy Lego Dragon characters.

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Magnus Condomus
Apr 23, 2010

Timett posted:

Sexy Lego Dragon characters.

Could you kiss those lips?

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