An interview with the executive producer of Face Off, Mission Control Media’s Dwight D. Smith.
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Syfy cancelled Face Off, which will end after an all-star season 13
Face Off: Battle Royale, an all-star season, will be the final season of the makeup and effects competition series, as Syfy has killed the show.
Skin Wars cancelled by GSN, but Face Off is returning to Syfy
Syfy will bring its makeup effects competition back this year, but GSN won’t air any more of the RuPaul-judged body painting competition.
Star Trek: Discovery’s Klingon makeup is by Face Off’s Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page
Star Trek: Discovery’s makeup and creature effects, including the new Klingon design, was done by Face Off judges Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page.
A review of Face Off: Game Face, the Syfy show’s Chopped spin-off
Face Off: Game Face improves on the regular Face Off in many ways, giving returning all-star contestants a chance to show their skills in new challenges.
Face Off is spinning off a Chopped-style competition with all-stars, Rick Baker
Each episode of the Face Off spin-off Game Face will have four all-star contestants competing against each other in timed challenges to win $10,000.
Face Off punishes a contestant for workroom ‘sacrilege’
The shop versus shop format on Face Off led to a confrontation between a foreperson and a team member that spilled over into judging.
What Face Off is doing this season is unexpected and wonderful
Face Off: All Stars has produced some delightful surprises this season besides its episode-one twist, which revealed teams wouldn’t be eliminated each week.
Why Face Off: All Stars changed its format, and more insight from its producer
An interview with the executive producer of Face Off: All Stars.
The 16 returning artists for Face Off: All Stars, its first full all-star season
The cast of the next season of Face Off has been announced, and they are all returning contestants. Face Off: All Stars will debut in January.
Face Off’s horror movie finale had a scary outcome
On the Face Off season 10 finale, finalists created a demon and another character for a short horror film. The makeup succeeded, but the films, not so much.
A day in the life of a Face Off model
Two Face Off models, Matt Chris Wood and Isabelle Du, talk about what a typical day on the set of the Syfy reality competition is like.
Face Off finally did a realistic makeup challenge, and this happened
One of my favorite challenges in the history of Face Off is the season-one challenge, where the contestants made themselves up to look like other people and then interacted with their own family members, to see if they’d be recognized. The results really showcased their talent.
How a strong finale and new challenges refreshed Face Off
Syfy’s Face Off has long been a strong competition series that for me was stuck in a rut—a decent rut, yes, but a rut nevertheless. So, I’ve been wishing for a while that the show would shake things up. While there was not some kind of massive shift this season, producers made very smart changes… continue reading
New challenges freshen Face Off’s makeup
Face Off has been introducing new challenges this season, its ninth, and they’ve improved the Syfy reality competition significantly.
Professional talent competitions like this live and die by their challenges, and the challenges have had more of a spark all season: engaged couples transformed into zombies who were then married by host McKenzie Westmore; two models merged into one creature; Rorschach ink blobs as inspiration for characters.
There’s a lot of variety that has nudged the show out of the rut it’s been in recently; the episodes don’t feel as interchangeable with other seasons, and the variation has resulted in some contestants excelling one week and failing the next.