Seasons & episodes

S1 · E1Welcome to the Jungle 2011-01-26 · 40 min＋

The challenge is to create a new human/animal hybrid based from 3 exotic animals that are brought into lab.

S1 · E2Naked Ambition 2011-02-02 · 40 min＋

A full-body makeup challenge for the contestants.

S1 · E3Out of this World 2011-02-09 · 40 min＋

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

S1 · E4Bad to the Bone 2011-02-16 · 40 min＋

"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.

S1 · E5Switched and Hitched 2011-02-23 · 40 min＋

In teams of two, the contestants turn brides into grooms and grooms into brides.

S1 · E6Dancing Dead 2011-03-02 · 40 min＋

Zombies take over as the seven remaining special effects artists must create an original zombie to avoid the dreaded double elimination on “Dancing Dead”.

S1 · E7Family Plot 2011-03-09 · 40 min＋

The five remaining contestants must disguise themselves to fool their own family members at a Los Angeles wig shop.

S1 · E8Twisted Tales 2011-03-16 · 40 min＋

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.