Face Off season 4

Face Off
Season 4
No. of episodes11
Release
Original networkSyfy
Original releaseJanuary 15 (2013-01-15) –
March 26, 2013 (2013-03-26)
Season chronology
← Previous
Season 3
Next →
Season 5
List of episodes

The fourth season of the Syfy reality television series Face Off premiered on January 15, 2013[1] and ended on March 26, 2013. The season featured 14 prosthetic makeup artists competing against each other to create makeup effects. Anthony Kosar of Chicago, Illinois, was the winner of the season. The grand prize for the fourth season was a position as a guest lecturer at the Make Up For Ever Academies in New York and Paris, a 2013 Fiat 500, and $100,000.

The finals venue for this season was Wynn in Paradise, Nevada.

Judges

Contestants

Name Age Hometown Place finished
Troy Rivers[2] 34 Indianapolis, Indiana 14th
Michael Faust[2] 31 Austin, Texas 13th
Katie Machaiek[2] 26 Owls Head, Maine 12th
Alexandra "Alex" McCoy[2] 30 Orlando, Florida 11th
Jenna Green[2] 40 Austin, Texas 10th
Alam Park[2] 24 Seattle, Washington 9th
Autumn Cook[2] 35 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 8th
Meagan Hester[2] 29 Ossining, New York 7th
Eric Zapata[2] 22 Austin, Texas 6th
David "House" Greathouse[2] 41 Cleveland, Ohio 5th
Eric Fox[2] 37 Riverside, California 4th
Kristian "Kris" Kobzina[2] 41 El Segundo, California Runner-up
Wayne Anderson[2] 27 Fort Myers, Florida Runner-up
Anthony Kosar[2] 26 Chicago, Illinois Winner

Production

Syfy picked up Face Off for a fourth season on October 9, 2012, which premiered on January 15, 2013 after the third season became one of the network's highest rated programs along with its strong performance.[1] A sneak peek of the upcoming season premiered during the live season 3 finale. Season 4 was the first season to create full on creature suites. Large fabrications and massive sculpting designs with crazy out of the box thinking.

Guests slated to appear are Bryan Singer, John Rhys-Davies, Jon Landau, Michael Nankin and Gale Anne Hurd, who previously served as a guest judge in season 3.[3] McKenzie Westmore's father Michael Westmore joins this season as a mentor.

Contestant progress

Contestant Episode
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Anthony WIN‡ WIN WIN IN HIGH LOW LOW WIN LOW WIN WINNER
Kris IN IN IN WIN HIGH WIN WIN IN WIN IN RUNNER-UP
Wayne LOW IN HIGH IN HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH IN RUNNER-UP
Eric F. HIGH HIGH HIGH IN WIN IN‡ LOW IN IN OUT
House IN HIGH IN HIGH HIGH IN HIGH LOW OUT
Eric Z. HIGH IN IN IN‡ LOW IN LOW OUT
Meagan HIGH LOW IN IN LOW LOW HIGH‡ OUT
Autumn HIGH IN LOW LOW HIGH IN OUT
Alam IN IN HIGH HIGH LOW OUT
Jenna HIGH IN LOW LOW OUT
Alex LOW IN LOW OUT
Katie IN LOW OUT
Michael LOW OUT
Troy OUT
  The contestant won Face Off.
  The contestant was a runner-up.
  The contestant won a Spotlight Challenge.
  The contestant won a Spotlight Challenge by default.
  The contestant was part of a team that won the Spotlight Challenge.
  The contestant was in the top in the Spotlight Challenge.
  The contestant was deemed the best in the Spotlight Challenge but was not eligible for the win due to not completing the challenge.
  The contestant was in the bottom in the Spotlight Challenge.
  The contestant was a teammate of the eliminated contestant in the Spotlight Challenge.
  The contestant was eliminated.
‡ The contestant won the Foundation Challenge.

Episodes

See also: List of Face Off episodes
No. in
series 		No. in
season 		Title Original air date U.S. viewers
(million) 		18-49
Rating
311"Make it Reign"January 15, 2013 (2013-01-15)1.8[4]1.0[4]

  • Foundation Challenge: On the RMS Queen Mary, the contestants must use a crown as inspiration for an original queen-themed make-up that represents them as an artist.
Guest Judge: Michael Westmore
Reward: Immunity
Top Foundations:
Anthony
Eric F.
Jenna
Winner: Anthony
  • Spotlight Challenge: Working in teams of two, the artists must create believable fantasy goblin kings based on one of seven terrains.
Guest Judge: John Rhys-Davies
Top Looks:
Anthony & Meagan - Mountain terrain
Eric F. & Jenna - Desert terrain
Eric Z. & Autumn - Jungle terrain
Safe:
Alam & Kris - Forest terrain
House & Katie - Arctic terrain
Bottom Looks:
Michael & Troy - Volcanic terrain
Wayne & Alex - Swamp terrain
Winner: Anthony
Eliminated: Troy

 

322"Heroic Proportions"January 22, 2013 (2013-01-22)1.756[5]0.7[5]

  • Spotlight Challenge: While visiting the 2012 San Diego Comic Con, the remaining artists must create an original DC Comics superhero as well as working on their concept with several DC artists.
Guests: Dan DiDio, Jim Lee, Nicola Scott, Mark Buckingham, Cliff Chiang, Tony S. Daniel, David Finch, and J.H. Williams III
Reward: The winning superhero will be featured in Justice League Dark #16.
Top Looks:
House - Robot Girl
Eric F. - Dick Gritty
Anthony - The Infernal Core
Safe:
Alam - Dark Shard
Alex - H2Ophelia
Autumn - Mercury Ray
Eric Z. - Contagion
Jenna - Silversight
Kris - Orion X
Wayne - Solarian
Bottom Looks:
Meagan - Freedom Fighter
Michael - Elijah: Bringer of the Plagues
Katie - ReVolt
Winner: Anthony
Eliminated: Michael

 

333"When Hell Freezes Over"January 29, 2013 (2013-01-29)1.99[6]0.9[6]

  • Spotlight Challenge: Working in teams of two, the artists must each create their own take on one of several demons from other cultures. They first make their sketches in the desert, with the heat as inspiration for the hellish nature of the demons, but when they returned to the lab they were given a script-note that read "Hell has frozen over", requiring them to incorporate ice themes in their design.
Top Looks:
Anthony & Alam - Demus
Wayne & Eric F. Chort
Safe:
Eric Z. & Kris - Abraxas
House & Meagan - Azi Dahaka
Bottom Looks:
Alex & Autumn - Pazuzu
Jenna & Katie - Eurynomos
Winner: Anthony
Eliminated: Katie

 

344"Eye Candy"February 5, 2013 (2013-02-05)1.8[7]0.7[7]

  • Foundation Challenge: The artists must create a realistic beard for their female models.
Guest Judge: John Meyer
Reward: Immunity
Top Foundations:
Alex
Eric Z.
Winner: Eric Z.
  • Spotlight Challenge: The artists must create an original character or creature, while incorporating candy as part of their designs.
Guest Judge: Will Cotton
Top Looks:
Alam - Anime-inspired princess
Kris - Halloween candy monster
House - Sweet Tooth Suzy
Safe:
Anthony - Colonel Candy
Eric F. - Gummy glutton
Eric Z. - Gingerbread house witch
Meagan - Sugar Plum Fairy
Wayne - Rock candy troll
Bottom Looks:
Alex - Slasher pageant girl
Jenna - Sinister tooth fairy
Autumn - Undead gummy bear
Winner: Kris
Eliminated: Alex

 

355"Two Heads Are Better Than One"February 12, 2013 (2013-02-12)1.74[8]0.8[8]

  • Spotlight Challenge: The artists work in teams of two to create a larger-than-life giant character based on Jack the Giant Killer. Their character should have two or more heads.
Guest Judge: Bryan Singer
Top Looks:
Wayne & House - Two-headed tree-like giant with a puppet head
Anthony & Autumn - Three-headed contorted giant
Eric F. & Kris - Two-headed, 10' giant holding Jack
Bottom Looks:
Alam & Eric Z. - Three-headed axe-slayer with feet holding heads
Jenna & Meagan - Two-headed ogre-like, "former" Jack
Winner: Eric F.
Eliminated: Jenna

 

366"Bugging Out"February 19, 2013 (2013-02-19)1.8[9]0.8[9]

  • Foundation Challenge: The artists must re-imagine a classic female fairy tale character as a bad girl.a
Guest Judge: Lijha Stewart
Reward: Immunity and a makeup kit from the Make Up Forever collection.
Top Foundations:
Eric F. - Little Red Riding Hood
Wayne - Little Miss Muffet
Winner: Eric F.
  • Spotlight Challenge: The artists each chose an image which later turned out to be microscopic photographs of insects (and an arachnid). They must then create a make-up of their chosen insect while incorporating the microscopic details from their photos. At the end of judging, although the judges agreed that Wayne's makeup was the most successful overall, he was not eligible to win the challenge due to accidentally omitting the element from his microscopic photograph. So as the only other top look, Kris won by default.
Top Looks:
Kris - Butterfly
Wayne - Firefly
Safe:
Autumn - Beetle
Eric F. - Wolf Spider
Eric Z. - Mosquito
House - Honeybee
Bottom Looks:
Anthony - Ant
Meagan - Moth
Alam - Grasshopper
Winner: Kris
Eliminated: Alam

 

377"Howl at the Moon"February 26, 2013 (2013-02-26)1.82[10]0.9[10]

  • Foundation Challenge: Working in teams of two, the artists must apply zombie makeups on twenty people.
Guest Judge: Gale Anne Hurd
Reward: Immunity
Top Foundations:
Anthony & Meagan
Eric Z. & House
Winner: Meagan
  • Spotlight Challenge: Working in teams of two, the artists must create alien werewolves from one of the other five planets in the solar system that have moons.
Top Looks:
House & Meagan - Mars
Kris & Wayne - Neptune
Bottom Looks:
Eric F. & Anthony - Saturn
Autumn & Eric Z. - Jupiter
Winner: Kris
Eliminated: Autumn

 

388"It's Better in the Dark"March 5, 2013 (2013-03-05)1.6[11]0.7[11]

  • Spotlight Challenge: The artists must create an undiscovered creature from any ecosystem, but the creature must be bioluminescent and aspects of the make-up must glow under a blacklight.
Guest Judge: Jon Landau
Top Looks:
Anthony - Tribal creature with spear
Wayne - Crab-man
Safe:
Eric F. - Jellyfish
Kris - Green fish-amphibian
Bottom Looks:
House - Prehistoric fish-creature
Meagan - Venus fly-trap from cave
Eric Z. - Rock creature
Winner: Anthony
Eliminated: Meagan and Eric Z.

 

399"Mummy Mayhem"March 12, 2013 (2013-03-12)1.6[12]0.7[12]

Top Looks:
Wayne - Sobek
Kris - Khnum
Safe:
Eric F. - Ra
Bottom Looks:
Anthony - Anubis
House - Thoth
Winner: Kris
Eliminated: House

 

4010"Alien Apocalypse"March 19, 2013 (2013-03-19)1.6[13]0.8[13]

  • Spotlight Challenge: The artists are tasked to create an original make-up that puts forth a possible hybrid offspring of two of the show's alien races from Defiance. Mackenzie and Defiance co-developer Kevin Murphy surprised them, except Eric F. who stayed behind due to family circumstances, with a trip to Toronto to visit the set in order to get inspiration for their look. On the way, they met Stephanie Leonidas, received a lesson from makeup artist Allan Cooke, and got to go behind the scenes.d
Reward: Guaranteed spot in the finale.
Winner: Anthony - Combination of Liberata + Mutant
Safe:
Kris - Combination of Bioman + Mutant
Wayne - Combination of Liberata + Bioman
Eliminated: Eric F. - Combination of Sensoth + 99ner

 

4111"Living the Dream"March 26, 2013 (2013-03-26)1.77[14]0.8[14]

Anthony - assisted by Eric Z. & Autumn - used a Sinister theme
Kris - assisted by House & Alam - used an Ethereal theme
Wayne - assisted by Eric F. & Meagan - used a Supernatural theme
Winner: Anthony

 


Face Off Redemption

Face Off Redemption is a web miniseries hosted by judge Glenn Hetrick in conjunction with season 4. It puts the eliminated artists against each other with the winner getting a spot in Face Off's upcoming fifth season. This show reveals that Face Off will have a 5th season.

Webisode 1

Artists Troy, Alex, Michael, and Katie must each create an alien emissary.

  • Winner: Katie

Webisode 2

Artists Katie, Jenna, Alam, and Autumn must each create a glam rock vampire.

  • Winner: Jenna

Webisode 3

Artists Jenna, Meagan, and Eric Z. must each create a nightmare clown.

  • Winner: Eric Z.

Webisode 4

In the final redemption challenge, artists Eric Z., Eric F., and House must each create an original mutant.

  • Winner: Eric Z

.

References

  1. ^ a b "Syfy Renews Face Off For Season 4". CinemaBlend. October 9, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Contestants". Syfy.com. Archived from the original on May 6, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  3. ^ "'Face Off' finalists face the music in live Season 3 finale". Zap2It. October 30, 2012. Archived from the original on November 1, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Face Off' Reigns Over More Than One Million Adults 18-49". TV by the Numbers. January 16, 2013. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
  5. ^ a b Bibel, Sara (January 24, 2013). "Tuesday Cable Ratings:'Pretty Little Liars' & 'Real Husbands of Hollywood' Win Night, 'Justified', 'Cougar Town', 'White Collar' & More". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Pretty Little Liars' & 'Real Husbands of Hollywood' Win Night + 'Hardcore Pawn', 'Dance Moms' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". TV by the Numbers. January 30, 2013. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
  7. ^ a b "Tuesday Cable Ratings:'Tosh.0′ Wins Night, 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Hardcore Pawn', 'Cougar Town', 'Justified', 'White Collar' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". TV by the Numbers. February 6, 2013. Archived from the original on February 9, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
  8. ^ a b "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Tosh.0′ Wins Night + State of the Union Address Coverage, 'Cougar Town', 'Pretty Little Liars' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". TV by the Numbers. February 13, 2013. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
  9. ^ a b "Tuesday Cable Ratings:'Tosh.0′ Wins Night, College Basketball, 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Cougar Town', 'Real Husbands of Hollywood','Justified', 'Face Off' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". TV by the Numbers. February 21, 2013. Archived from the original on February 24, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
  10. ^ a b "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Tosh.0′ Wins Night + 'Pretty Little Liars', 'The Daily Show', 'Snooki & JWOWW', 'Real Husbands of Hollywood' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". TV by the Numbers. February 27, 2013. Archived from the original on March 2, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
  11. ^ a b Daily Preliminary Broadcast Cable Finals Broadcast Finals (March 6, 2013). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: NBA Basketball Wins Night, 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Tosh.0′, 'Justified', 'Cougar Town', 'Dance Moms' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 12, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
  12. ^ a b Daily Preliminary Broadcast Cable Finals Broadcast Finals (March 13, 2013). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Tosh.0′ Wins Night + 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Snooki & JWOWW', 'Justified', 'Real Husbands of Hollywood' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 16, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
  13. ^ a b Daily Preliminary Broadcast Cable Finals Broadcast Finals (March 20, 2013). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Tosh.0' Wins Night, 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Justified', 'Cougar Town','Top Gear', 'Dance Moms' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 23, 2013. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
  14. ^ a b Daily Preliminary Broadcast Cable Finals Broadcast Finals (March 27, 2013). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Tosh.0' Wins Night, 'World Cup Qualifying Soccer', 'Hardcore Pawn', 'The Game','Snooki & JWOWW' & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 30, 2013. Retrieved March 27, 2013.