What a combination of Rob creating this really weird face, and then the director having a lot of changes – well, sure, Rob’s design is not that great, so it should be changed – but the director came across as kind of a flake to me, and I could see him asking for changes for just about anything he was shown. Rob’s personality, essentially freaking out over everything, is completely magnified here.
I think Walter is the strongest at this stage, and I think he was aided by having a director who was pretty straightforward at the get-go and described what he wanted in a way that was easy to translate to a design. I was worried that Robert would get up to his usual antics, but thankfully that didn’t happen.
Melissa has some good elements in her design. Because we just had a cyclops challenge, I wish that the show had orchestrated this a little better. But overall, she created something with a different look, and it’s good thinking on her part to make the cyclops aspect an empty socket instead of an actual eye.
I’m still not sure how I feel about Rob. It does feel like the show is playing up how anxious he gets, and in past episodes, that has often been the run-up to him turning things around at the last minute. With this challenge, I think Mel would have been a contender – I think she does better when she has more direction and would do well in this type of challenge that has clearer parameters.