Face Off (Season 8)

Return of the Champions (Episode 1)

Air date: 2015-01-13

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: Season 8 begins with three returning champions joining the competition as coaches.

Monkey Business (Episode 2)

Air date: 2015-01-20

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: Oscar winner Rick Baker is the guest judge for the first Spotlight Challenge, which finds the artists working in teams to create two original alien characters, plus a primate leader.

Let the Games Begin (Episode 3)

Air date: 2015-01-27

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The remaining 14 artists take part in a deadly predator challenge featuring guest judge Josh Hutcherson ("The Hunger Games").

Royal Flush (Episode 4)

Air date: 2015-02-03

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The thirteen remaining artists must make playing cards come to life in the whimsical style of Tim Burton for their first individual Spotlight Challenge of the competition

Sounding Off (Episode 5)

Air date: 2015-02-10

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The artists have to design creatures based on unique sound effects created by sound designer Erik Aadahl.

Troll Bridge (Episode 6)

Air date: 2015-02-17

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The remaining artists and their coaches feel the stress of a challenge where they must create trolls inspired by iconic bridges.

Queen Bees (Episode 7)

Air date: 2015-02-24

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The artists learn that for their challenge, they will be body-painting nude models in the middle of the woods.

Dressed To Kill (Episode 8)

Air date: 2015-03-03

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The artists create their own stylish horror villain inspired by the work of Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed).

Miss Intergalactic (Episode 9)

Air date: 2015-03-10

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The contestants must take inspiration from the planets in the solar system to create alien queens who compete in a intergalactic beauty pageant.

Super Selfies (Episode 10)

Air date: 2015-03-17

Runtime: 40 min

Imaginary Friends (Episode 11)

Air date: 2015-03-24

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The Artists must make their Imaginary Friends from their childhood as a film character or creature.

Deadly Dolls (Episode 12)

Air date: 2015-03-31

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The artists must create serial killer doll characters

Full Steam Ahead (Episode 13)

Air date: 2015-04-07

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The artists must create western steampunk cyborgs, in order to make it into the finals at the Vinpearl Land Amphitheater in Nha Trang, Vietnam.

The Dream Team (Episode 14)

Air date: 2015-04-14

Runtime: 40 min

Overview: The final three artists must each create four original characters worthy of starring in their own film franchise, at the Vinpearl Land Amphitheater in Nha Trang, Vietnam.