Zombies and Disco
Warning: Video contains scenes of horror and coarse corpse language- viewer discretion is advised
Matt Ficner from Creepy Puppet Project has created another horrific short video. This time shine up that disco ball and get out those platform shoes because we are going to be disco dancing with zombies! Matt discusses the production of this amazing video…
“I started making the music track. A total of 86 layers of music, sound FX and voice tracks were used. (yes, those are all my voices). Drawing inspiration from Monty Pythons Light side of life song, I wanted something somewhat upbeat macabre perhaps, but still upbeat. After all, who knows more about life than zombies who somehow still cling to it!
I made a new choir master zombie (making of video to come) and recycled all of the fan favorite zombies as well as recycling some previous victim characters into zombies.
The Central Paranormal Police (using the C.P.P. letters of course) were inspired by REAL infant sized gas masks I purchased at a military surplus store this past summer. I saw them and simply had to make something with them!
The C.P.P. truck is made out of model parts and and old toy truck I’ve had from my youth.
All of the backgrounds and sets are digital. I spent close to 2 weeks creating images and digital paintings to create the environments. I used green screen techniques to compile everything that I had filmed in my spare bedroom.
Some of the scenes have up to 70 FX layers… and some scenes took 14 hours to render!
The one aspect I really wanted to try was putting REAL human legs on a puppet. Yes, those are my legs (distorted and stretched) and, yes I do own pants from the 70s that I can still wear!
This time around, about 98% of the puppetry was done solely by myself., with the exception of some wonderful help from Bea Demarce, Paul McLaren and Jenn Fournier who aided in puppeteering the glowing skeleton. ”
You can check out Matt’s site at www.creepypuppetproject.com
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