Synopsis
In this competition/elimination series, special effects make-up artists participate in elaborate challenges for a grand prize and the honor of being Hollywood's next great effects artist.
Episodes
1
Welcome to the JungleThe challenge is to create a new human/animal hybrid based from 3 exotic animals that are brought into lab.40m2
Naked AmbitionA full-body makeup challenge for the contestants.40m3
Out of this WorldMakeup artist Michael Westmore meets the contestants at Vasquez Rocks in Southern California, where episodes of "Star Trek" were shot, and the competitors learn that they must create an alien for a newly discovered world40m4
Bad to the Bone"Friday the 13th" director Sean Cunningham serves as a guest judge for a challenge that has the contestants creating an original horror-movie villain along with an accompanying movie poster, title and tagline.40m5
Switched and HitchedIn teams of two, the contestants turn brides into grooms and grooms into brides.40m6
Dancing DeadZombies take over as the seven remaining special effects artists must create an original zombie to avoid the dreaded double elimination on “Dancing Dead”.40m7
Family PlotThe five remaining contestants must disguise themselves to fool their own family members at a Los Angeles wig shop.40m8
Twisted TalesThe last challenge has the three remaining contestants creating fairy-tale characters derived from "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Hansel and Gretel" for a cocktail-party setting in the first-season finale.40m
Welcome to the JungleThe challenge is to create a new human/animal hybrid based from 3 exotic animals that are brought into lab.40m2Naked AmbitionA full-body makeup challenge for the contestants.40m3Out of this WorldMakeup artist Michael Westmore meets the contestants at Vasquez Rocks in Southern California, where episodes of "Star Trek" were shot, and the competitors learn that they must create an alien for a newly discovered world40m4Bad to the Bone"Friday the 13th" director Sean Cunningham serves as a guest judge for a challenge that has the contestants creating an original horror-movie villain along with an accompanying movie poster, title and tagline.40m5Switched and HitchedIn teams of two, the contestants turn brides into grooms and grooms into brides.40m6Dancing DeadZombies take over as the seven remaining special effects artists must create an original zombie to avoid the dreaded double elimination on “Dancing Dead”.40m7Family PlotThe five remaining contestants must disguise themselves to fool their own family members at a Los Angeles wig shop.40m8Twisted TalesThe last challenge has the three remaining contestants creating fairy-tale characters derived from "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Hansel and Gretel" for a cocktail-party setting in the first-season finale.40mCast
