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The good time fun time show for best pals singing songs and helping each other clean out molds is back! Face Off Face Off is an unscripted competition show where both established and up & coming makeup effects artists complete production assigned challenges to test their skills. It's about design, molding/casting, painting, artistry, and so forth. Many rise to the challenge while some crash and burn. There's talk of a cash prize, a product placement from Fiat, and a product placement from Kryolan at the beginning and end of every episode. This show is dope because unlike a lot of bad reality shows where there's lots of "house" time and people are rude and catty and generally terrible, most people in most seasons are quite talented and are generally nice & good human beings. There's sharp critiques and occasional tears, but in this show contestants are more likely to help each other out than chew each other out. This is probably because they cast a lot of people with industry experience who are looking to show off their portfolio in front of the extremely (industry) famous & award winning judges (who occasionally hire former contestants). ...which brings me to the next section of the OP, where I largely copy/paste from last season's OP. Host & Judges & Mentor & Season 8 Coaches  McKenzie Westmore (Host) Actress/Scion of America's Greatest FX Family Wiki | IMDb  Glenn Hetrick Owner/CEO – Optic Nerve Studios Past Work: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI: NY, Lady Gaga (personal designer) Wiki | IMDb  Ve Neill Oscar-Winning Freelance Makeup Artist Past Work: Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman, Every Tim Burton Movie Ever Wiki | IMDb  Neville Page Concept Designer Past Work: Avatar, The Amazing Spider-Man, Prometheus Wiki | IMDb  Michael Westmore (Mentor) Oscar & Emmy-Winning Legendary Makeup Artist Past work: The Munsters, Rocky, Star Trek, covert CIA disguises  Wiki | IMDb  This season, three former winners are coming back to coach a group of contestants Five contestants each to start. The coaches will coach while the contestants will actually make the creations. When all of a coach's contestants are out, the coach is out. Last coach standing wins a special prize??  Rayce Bird (@RayceBird) Season 2 Champion Coach of #TeamRayce  Anthony Kosar (@KOSARTeffects) Season 4 Champion Coach of #TeamAnthony  Laura Tyler (@laurartist84) Season 5 Champion (& champion of my heart  )Coach of #TeamLaura Season 8 Contestants  Julian Bonfiglio Age: 25 Hometown: Fremont, CA  Alan Carnes Age: 32 Hometown: Weaverville, CA  Darla Edin Age: 28 Hometown: St. Louis Park, MN  Kelly Harris Age: 24 Hometown: Columbus, OH  Gregory Hewett Age: 36 Hometown: Supply, NC  Regina Jiganti Age: 24 Hometown: Hinsdale, IL  Jamie Leodones Age: 30 Hometown: Alberta, Canada  Logan Long Age: 29 Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT  Stephanie Masco Age: 21 Hometown: Plainfield, IL  Adam Milicevic Age: 30 Hometown: Merrillville, IN  Rob Miller Age: 41 Hometown: Monroe, MI  Ben Peter Age: 32 Hometown: Centerville, OH  Daniel Prado Age: 38 Hometown: Sao Paulo, Brazil  Anthony Reyes Age: 20 Hometown: Shohola, PA  Emily Serpico Age: 18 Hometown: West Palm Beach, FL Who will be the next great name in movie magic? Welcome to Face Off swoosh
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Jan 23, 2015 02:57
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I appreciate them trying something different since we're on season 8, but the judging segment in the last episode was really confusing.
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Jan 23, 2015 12:50
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Johnny Longtorso posted:I appreciate them trying something different since we're on season 8, but the judging segment in the last episode was really confusing. Hopefully they go to individual challenges for a while or at least judge the teamwork as a whole going forward. I wasn't very impressed with any of the makeups this time. Hopefully they pull something better off next week. I hope Ben Peter is gone next because his face upsets me on a visceral level.
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Jan 23, 2015 16:01
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Johnny Longtorso posted:I appreciate them trying something different since we're on season 8, but the judging segment in the last episode was really confusing. Gotta agree. The judging just seemed to go on for so long...after awhile I just zoned out. Wasn't super impressed with any of the makeups, but it's still early so I'm sure they will improve. Also not really caring much about the team captains. It's nice to see old winners return, but honestly I don't see the point. Mr. Westmore's advice was much more helpful than anything they had to say.
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Jan 23, 2015 16:11
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I completely agree about the judging and general blandness of the work. My wife was doing something else while we were watching & thought I rewound it when she saw the same guy, who had been called up twice. On the plus side, that style did make it seem like the team captains played a role in telling the judges who was involved in what, so they seem more accountable than team challenges on other seasons.
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Jan 23, 2015 16:13
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I think it felt weird because team projects feel weird and there were 3 creations per team to judge which is a lot. When they get to individual challenges again it'll probably be back to normal.
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Jan 23, 2015 19:10
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Team challenges are always kind of bland, because a bunch of people have to agree on a plan. You can't get Tate-like crazy ideas off the ground when everyone's trying to put their own spin on a project. That being said, they really do need to sort out the judging. That was super confusing.
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Jan 24, 2015 02:01
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Ariza posted:I hope  Judging by his work in ep 2 he won't last long. Also Rob has a John Candy's Sad Younger Brother vibe Dude always looks like he's expecting people to tell him to yell at him for something he didn't realise he'd done. Cheer up Rob. 
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Jan 24, 2015 06:30
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Dude always looks like he's expecting people to tell him to yell at him for something he didn't realise he'd done. Cheer up Rob. Also sweating profusely.
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Jan 26, 2015 21:41
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Tonight, we learned a very important lesson: don't make a textureless lizard, your makeup will be called out by Glenn for looking too anime.
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Jan 28, 2015 04:23
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I didn't really see how Ben and Darla's ram incorporated the cactus elements beyond sticking random needles into the horns. Everything else about it was admittedly pretty awesome.
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Jan 28, 2015 07:05
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I was surprised by the ones on top this week, the ram looked great in concept but the colors were just so dull and boring in the end, and the cactus elements were poorly done. Together with the thing that looked nothing like a hyena, where they tried to hide that they didn't get anything done.
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Jan 28, 2015 15:20
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Ah ha ha the proposal, jesus christ Edit: but I will admit that Ben stepped up and had one of the strongest comebacks I've seen on the show
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Jan 28, 2015 18:00
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Oasx posted:Together with the thing that looked nothing like a hyena, where they tried to hide that they didn't get anything done. I thought it actually looked awesome, I was hoping it would win. I liked it a lot more than the ram with the tacked on needles.
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Jan 28, 2015 18:58
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I thought a lot of the pieces looked good except for textureless lizard. Much better than the first challenge where it seemed like people were stepping all over each other and messing up.
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Jan 29, 2015 15:17
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Anime Lizard seemed like a classic case of "not enough time for painting". Oops. Also, Regina and Emily seemed weirdly quiet during judging, I wonder if there was some criticisms there that we didn't see. I did think that Emily's "hair" was kind of risky, but I guess it sort of works in a plant-oriented challenge.
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Jan 29, 2015 15:42
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That fish one would've been great if not for those awful, awful eyes.
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Jan 29, 2015 17:42
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Ariza posted:That fish one would've been great if not for those awful, awful eyes. Even just jet black eyes would have been better: 
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Jan 30, 2015 10:02
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I always wonder how the model choices work. This is like the 3rd time I've seen someone's idea thrown out because of this. All of these kind of look too dark and moody and not "whimsical" at all. A hand full of them are pretty rough. KungFu Grip fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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Feb 4, 2015 03:17
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Emily's Queen of Hearts feels like a copout. It seems exactly like the Burton Queen of Hearts.
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Feb 4, 2015 03:48
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Is anyone else like me and feels like at this point (every season) you can't help but think that they could've found better people? I am pretty umimpressed so far but I'm also not an expert on any of this. And these people need to look up the word "whimsical"
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Feb 4, 2015 04:05
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Lipumira posted:Is anyone else like me and feels like at this point (every season) you can't help but think that they could've found better people? I feel like they're running out of potential contestants. The team coach concept is just an attempt to mitigate a relatively shallow talent pool. How many really great undiscovered make-up/effects artists are out there in, say, Ohio or Wisconsin or whatever. Tonight's eliminated guy even said, "I've only been at this for 8 months," and I know there was a contestant in a previous season who also said something like that on his way out. Seriously, it's getting to the point of - Step 1) take a class at Anthony's school of make up in Chicago, step 2) go on Face Off. It's not like Top Chef where there's literally a million chefs just in the US alone. How many people can do make up/effects, and out of that pool, how many can actually do it well?
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Feb 4, 2015 05:15
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KungFu Grip posted:I always wonder how the model choices work. This is like the 3rd time I've seen someone's idea thrown out because of this. It was especially weird this episode, the producers set it up so there'd be a certain number of characters of specific genders (except the Joker, I guess, which could have been either) but it looks like they didn't supply enough male models to fulfill all the male roles. Anthony deliberately chose a female model for his King of Hearts character but Jamie had no choice but to take a female model for her King of Spades.
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Feb 4, 2015 11:39
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Does the Burger King count as whimsical? Because that what Jamie's King of Spades reminded me of.
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Feb 4, 2015 16:07
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LabyaMynora posted:I feel like they're running out of potential contestants. The team coach concept is just an attempt to mitigate a relatively shallow talent pool. How many really great undiscovered make-up/effects artists are out there in, say, Ohio or Wisconsin or whatever. Tonight's eliminated guy even said, "I've only been at this for 8 months," and I know there was a contestant in a previous season who also said something like that on his way out. Good point. Maybe they need to slow down the production cycle a bit or maybe they need to give people a little extra time to do their makeups to get better results. If I'm them, I'm starting to think about my brand and wondering if i'm hurting it. It's still fun to watch... but it's starting to be background noise while i'm doing something else.
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Feb 4, 2015 16:16
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These 'Tim Burton' challenges never go well. The only one I thought was slightly interesting was the Joker makeup, but that's because whoever did the wardrobe was smart and used patterns and colors to trick your eyes to take focus away from the fake face. They didn't bother to even show it close up, so that was all they probably liked about it.
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Feb 4, 2015 16:51
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KungFu Grip posted:Emily's Queen of Hearts feels like a copout. It seems exactly like the Burton Queen of Hearts. It was the only one that was competent all around though. The concept may have been lame, but the execution of the sculpt, the hair, and the makeup were all fantastic.
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Feb 5, 2015 01:43
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Ariza posted:It was the only one that was competent all around though. The concept may have been lame, but the execution of the sculpt, the hair, and the makeup were all fantastic. I actually also hate these whimsy challenges since the concepts never seem to be that good. So if I'm judging them purely on execution, Emily walks away with it. In fact it's hard to figure out why some of the contestants seem paralyzed over "original concept" especially at this early stage. Time and again we've seen that solid sculpts and stellar paint will put you ahead.
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Feb 5, 2015 03:32
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Queen of Hearts was the best by far. I wonder what the Joker looked like up close, because it looked pretty cool on reveal, but they didn't even show any of the judges comment on it. I'm also surprised the Jack of Spades didn't end up on the bottom, it looked like a thrown-together combination of Jack Sparrow and a Guy Fawkes mask. The Jack of Hearts was pretty good but I thought the head looked distractingly like a brain poking out behind the face.Sientara posted:Does the Burger King count as whimsical? Because that what Jamie's King of Spades reminded me of. Yeah, my reaction to seeing the finished makeup was, "wait a minute, that's the Burger King!"
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Feb 6, 2015 01:45
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Sientara posted:Does the Burger King count as whimsical? Because that what Jamie's King of Spades reminded me of. Haha...I was wondering why it seemed so familiar to me. I think this was the first episode I've seen where I didn't really like any of the characters.
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Feb 6, 2015 20:40
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CeeCee posted:Haha...I was wondering why it seemed so familiar to me. I really wish they'd use some movie lighting and fps for some of these to see how they look within a movie, instead of the garbage dancing poo poo they do every season.
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Feb 6, 2015 21:59
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I just caught up. Does the chick with the labre piercing drive anyone else insane when she talks?
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Feb 7, 2015 15:35
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Bored posted:I just caught up. Does the chick with the labre piercing drive anyone else insane when she talks? She reminds me of Ally Sheedy's character in The Breakfast Club. Sorry for the 80's reference. I'm old. And yeah, it's all about the paint job. I don't know why more of the contestants don't realize this. You can have a lovely concept and a not-so-great sculpt, but as long as your paint is really good, you're not going home.
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Feb 7, 2015 19:46
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LabyaMynora posted:Seriously, it's getting to the point of - Step 1) take a class at Anthony's school of make up in Chicago, step 2) go on Face Off. Counterpoint: Cake Boss e: VVV that was my point.... Factor Mystic fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Feb 7, 2015 |
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Feb 7, 2015 20:24
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Factor Mystic posted:Counterpoint: Cake Boss She came from Anthony's school, so...
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Feb 7, 2015 23:30
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The challenge tonight sounds like some major bullshit imo. Can't wait and see what a catastrophe this is. edit: nvm I thought it was gonna be generic sound effects not specific ones. That robot one hosed her over big time though. Surprised they hated that soul body as much as they did. KungFu Grip fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Feb 11, 2015 |
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Feb 11, 2015 02:43
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KungFu Grip posted:The challenge tonight sounds like some major bullshit imo. Can't wait and see what a catastrophe this is. The jiggling torso made of ghost faces deserves to be placed in the pantheon of amazing unintentional Face Off comedy 
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Feb 11, 2015 03:51
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That family photo was a bad drawing. Edit: Doug jones! Bored fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Feb 11, 2015 03:52
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I think Rob reeeeaaaallllyyyy wants to be Roy, and that might kick him in the rear end later. He just isn't as good at fabricating as Roy is.
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Feb 11, 2015 03:59
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That loving green swamp creature looked like a Halloween mask stuck on top of a papier mache body.
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Feb 11, 2015 20:24
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