E1 - Welcome to the Jungle

Aired: January 26, 2011

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

E2 - Naked Ambition

Aired: February 02, 2011

A full-body makeup challenge for the contestants.

E3 - Out of this World

Aired: February 09, 2011

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

E4 - Bad to the Bone

Aired: February 16, 2011

"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.

E5 - Switched and Hitched

Aired: February 23, 2011

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

E6 - Dancing Dead

Aired: March 02, 2011

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

E7 - Family Plot

Aired: March 09, 2011

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

E8 - Twisted Tales

Aired: March 16, 2011

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.