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Welcome to the Jungle

Episode number: 1

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

Naked Ambition

Episode number: 2

Overview: A full-body makeup challenge for the contestants.

Out of this World

Episode number: 3

Overview: 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

Bad to the Bone

Episode number: 4

Overview: "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.

Switched and Hitched

Episode number: 5

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

Dancing Dead

Episode number: 6

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

Family Plot

Episode number: 7

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

Twisted Tales

Episode number: 8

Overview: 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.