Jordu Schell is this week's guest judge, and he also happens to be one of Miranda's heroes. He gives his perspective on this week's challenge - creating a subterranean creature - and the contestants take notice of the opinion of a key artist of Avatar and 300.
22867
The artists descend into the abandoned power station to explore several rooms strewn with clues as to the kind of subterranean creatures that might have once inhabited the various chambers. Chains, scratch marks, fur, and tentacle marks are suggestions that the artists take and run with.
22869
Miranda is worried when she hears that Laura and RJ are both working concepts based on a "naked mole-rat" creature - they both made it to the finals, so being their neighbors carries some risk. Still, she's had a clear sense of what she wants to do since the start of this challenge, so she moves forward with her creation.
22870
Laura was badly shaken by being on the bottom looks last week, and though she knows she has what it takes to be in this competition, her confidence that she can impress the judges is weaker. Since she sees that Miranda is going forward with a more mole-influenced character, Laura veers toward the rat side of things for her prisoner of war character.
22865
Roy's attempt at building a huge sea monster met its fatal end when he accidentally grabbed stiff foam instead of soft foam. That error ruined his piece and left him scrambling to create something entirely new. He manages to get a decent head piece together, but the arms and torso are a hot mess, by his own admission, and the judges place him on bottom looks.
22871
It's not until last looks that RJ realizes he's created a mossy artichoke. He can breathe a sigh of relief, however, because the overall sculpt and excellent profile place his makeup in the middle, not the bottom.
22872
Through evolution, Frank's character's eyes were eliminated and his skin dulled in color. Glenn especially likes the logic behind the design, and the only negative criticism seems to be that the paint job could've used a touch more depth. Frank humbly welcomes the verdict that he's in top looks this week.
22873
Jordu LOVES Laura's rat prisoner, and the judges all agree that the storytelling capacity of her design is exemplary. She bounces back from the bottom and lands herself in the top looks this week.
22875
The judges felt Scott's sculpture was not awful, but they failed to find a cohesive story in the makeup, and felt it was ruined by a haphazard paint job. Scott finds himself on bottom looks for these reasons.
22876
Although the judges felt that the proportions of Adolfo's electrocuted prisoner were intriguing, the rough face sculpt, painted over with a garish orange that would not likely occur in a subterranean environment, were all wrong. He is sent home with strong words of encouragement to keep creating, and keep pushing himself.
