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.
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Episode 1
The challenge is to create a new human/animal hybrid based from 3 exotic animals that are brought into lab.
Episode 2
A full-body makeup challenge for the contestants.
Episode 3
Makeup 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 world
Episode 4
"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.
Episode 5
In teams of two, the contestants turn brides into grooms and grooms into brides.
Episode 6
Zombies take over as the seven remaining special effects artists must create an original zombie to avoid the dreaded double elimination on “Dancing Dead”.
Episode 7
The five remaining contestants must disguise themselves to fool their own family members at a Los Angeles wig shop.
Episode 8
The 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.
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