Face Off - Gatekeepers
This week's challenge: Work in pairs (I guess one week of individual challenges was enough?) select a door, and then create two looks: the guardian of said door, and the creature behind it. As usual, the looks had to go together in some way. The models are conveniently posing with their doors under the cut so you can easily see the inspiration.
Safe Looks
Stevie & Evan:
This is clearly a futuristic door, so they made aliens. With glowing heads, for some reason. It's a *shrug* look, which is probably why it was safe. (Although the judges did like the colors).
Scott & Kevon:
Creepy skulls on the door, creepy skulls in the look. Pretty straightforward, and also pretty cohesive. Also, for all of these, for some reason, the female character was always the guardian. What's up with that?
Top Looks
Nora & Jasmine:
I don't know that I would have seen that door and gone 'alien/monster' so much as 'ancient Indian or Mesopotamian' but whatever. Ve was pretty much in love with the gooey male slug guy, and the judges loved the colors and the airbrush work. Nora referred to Jasmine as an air brush wizard (or something to that effect) and she's not wrong. I appreciate her acknowledging someone else's skills, and deferring to them in that area. Basically, I <3 Nora. (Also, this is Jasmine's third week in a row on top looks.)
Does the color scheme on the girl remind anyone else of this Gigi Grant doll? No?
Jordan & Ben:
From the moment these two walked out on stage, it was clear that they were the winners. She's a deer and he's a goat, so I guess the theme was 'hooves' but they really do go together. The boys fabricated the dude's collar and skirt, the girl's headpiece is both amazing and perfectly suited to the door, and the judges pretty much loved everything about this. This was the top look, and Jordan was the winner. Of course, I can't remember what he did, but they definitely deserved to be the winning team.
Look at how serene and perfect that deer girl is. Flawless. And the goat guy looks like absolute shit, but because he's an undead warrior and not because they messed up in any way.
Bottom Looks
Jason & Ricky:
This team went with an Aztec/Mayan theme, which is great given their door, but they had so many problems and used up so much time fixing them, that this was the final, crappy, result. I honestly can't believe that this wasn't the losing look, because it is just so bad. That thing on the left is meant to be a snake, but looks more like the child of Big Bird and a birch tree, and the thing on the right is a mask on top of a camo tarp. Yet the judges saw something redeeming in it, because these two were (inexplicably) safe.
Meg & Libby:
This episode started with a foundation challenge, and Meg won it, which means that she had immunity this week. I predicted, as soon as she was paired up with Libby, that this would not go well for Libby, who has been on the bottom A LOT, and I was right. The judges didn't like the forms on the girl's face, or her hastily finished horns, but they really REALLY didn't like the male character, which was of course the one Libby made. Her concept was a boar/hyena, which bothered me because those animals look nothing alike, but at the last minute she couldn't get the tusks to go on so it's really just a hyena.
Close up:
It could have benefited from tusks, but I don't think it's that bad. Certainly not as bad as the disco mummy up there, but the judges said the anatomy was off and the paint job was flat. Libby was eliminated, which I don't think was entirely deserved, but it was the nicest elimination ever. The judges praised her other, non-hyena making, abilities, and said that they hoped to see more from her/encouraged her to keep on keeping on. That happens to some extent every episode, but it seemed particularly heartfelt this time.
Next week is some kind of Star Trek challenge, and Jonathan Frakes is going to be there. This intrigues me.
Safe Looks
Stevie & Evan:
This is clearly a futuristic door, so they made aliens. With glowing heads, for some reason. It's a *shrug* look, which is probably why it was safe. (Although the judges did like the colors).
Scott & Kevon:
Creepy skulls on the door, creepy skulls in the look. Pretty straightforward, and also pretty cohesive. Also, for all of these, for some reason, the female character was always the guardian. What's up with that?
Top Looks
Nora & Jasmine:
I don't know that I would have seen that door and gone 'alien/monster' so much as 'ancient Indian or Mesopotamian' but whatever. Ve was pretty much in love with the gooey male slug guy, and the judges loved the colors and the airbrush work. Nora referred to Jasmine as an air brush wizard (or something to that effect) and she's not wrong. I appreciate her acknowledging someone else's skills, and deferring to them in that area. Basically, I <3 Nora. (Also, this is Jasmine's third week in a row on top looks.)
Does the color scheme on the girl remind anyone else of this Gigi Grant doll? No?
Jordan & Ben:
From the moment these two walked out on stage, it was clear that they were the winners. She's a deer and he's a goat, so I guess the theme was 'hooves' but they really do go together. The boys fabricated the dude's collar and skirt, the girl's headpiece is both amazing and perfectly suited to the door, and the judges pretty much loved everything about this. This was the top look, and Jordan was the winner. Of course, I can't remember what he did, but they definitely deserved to be the winning team.
Look at how serene and perfect that deer girl is. Flawless. And the goat guy looks like absolute shit, but because he's an undead warrior and not because they messed up in any way.
Bottom Looks
Jason & Ricky:
This team went with an Aztec/Mayan theme, which is great given their door, but they had so many problems and used up so much time fixing them, that this was the final, crappy, result. I honestly can't believe that this wasn't the losing look, because it is just so bad. That thing on the left is meant to be a snake, but looks more like the child of Big Bird and a birch tree, and the thing on the right is a mask on top of a camo tarp. Yet the judges saw something redeeming in it, because these two were (inexplicably) safe.
Meg & Libby:
This episode started with a foundation challenge, and Meg won it, which means that she had immunity this week. I predicted, as soon as she was paired up with Libby, that this would not go well for Libby, who has been on the bottom A LOT, and I was right. The judges didn't like the forms on the girl's face, or her hastily finished horns, but they really REALLY didn't like the male character, which was of course the one Libby made. Her concept was a boar/hyena, which bothered me because those animals look nothing alike, but at the last minute she couldn't get the tusks to go on so it's really just a hyena.
Close up:
It could have benefited from tusks, but I don't think it's that bad. Certainly not as bad as the disco mummy up there, but the judges said the anatomy was off and the paint job was flat. Libby was eliminated, which I don't think was entirely deserved, but it was the nicest elimination ever. The judges praised her other, non-hyena making, abilities, and said that they hoped to see more from her/encouraged her to keep on keeping on. That happens to some extent every episode, but it seemed particularly heartfelt this time.
Next week is some kind of Star Trek challenge, and Jonathan Frakes is going to be there. This intrigues me.