Face Off

It's a whole new world with this season of Face Off! With the theme of Life and Death, contestants won't just be eliminated - they'll be killed! Just kidding.

After their first night in the gorgeous house as real contestants (so exciting, squeeel!) the artists meet McKenzie in New York. Just teasing, not New York, New York (is there an echo in here?), but New York Street at Universal Studios.

Have you ever heard the phrase, "Happier than a makeup artist during alien week"? Neither have we, but once we see the contestants' faces after Glenn and McKenzie tell them they'll be working solo to build an alien, we just might coin the phrase.

Guess what? We have a Foundation Challenge today, hooray! The contestants walk into the lab to see an array of models striking their very best "save the world" poses. McKenzie tells them they'll be basing an entire superhero, backstory and everything, on the costume that their model is wearing.

McKenzie takes the artists to a place where their inner kids can come out and play: the Wildlife Learning Center.

Somewhere over Sony Pictures Studios towers a giant sculpture of a rainbow, hearkening back to that groundbreaking film, The Wizard of Oz. McKenzie stands underneath the three-story rainbow amid a jumble of teacups and teapots, so the contestants know that whatever's ahead is going to be whimsical with a vengeance.

The judges pair up with two team members, a former all-star contestant and former champion, to create a pair of living chess pieces in a special competition for charity.

McKenzie summons the contestants to the lab where they encounter a heavy mist and a gothic mirror. She directs them to speak the name of Bloody Mary three times while looking into it.

Working for the G.I. Joe franchise, the artists use their talents to create snake-inspired super soldiers.

The artists turn their worst childhood fears into terrifying evil clowns who will perform a nightmarish circus routine.

It's back to high school for the remaining artists as they are tasked with creating fun mythical fantasy characters based on classic high school stereotypes.

The artists are faced with the challenge of creating a Greek God and also the severed head of a beast they have slain.

With the semifinals around the corner, the artists must take inspiration from disaster scenarios and craft elemental fairies born from each one.

The four semifinalists conquer giant city-crushing monstrosities in order to crush their way straight into the finale.