THE REVIVAL:A Creepy Puppet Project presented by Matt Ficner

Greetings to all! After several months of hard work, REVIVAL is done!

Like all the Creepy Puppet Projects, this started out just as a crazy idea and evolved into something completely strange. I hope you have as much fun watching this as I had making it.

Many people ask me why I make these shorts. For me, its that I really love the creative process of taking these bizarre ideas and turning them into reality.

This time, 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.

Bea Demarce also made the awesome choir robes and disco outfits. Check out her site www.matchfactory.ca

Once again, a HUGE thanks to Andrew Kramer from Video Copilot . I used a lot of the new FX footage from their new Action Essentials DVDs. They are awesome!

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Im working away at more Creepy Puppet stuff. Also, www.creepypuppetproject.com is now in the works!!

To all you fans and supporters, thank you VERY VERY much!
Keepin' it Creepy!
M.F.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Zombies
• choir
• disco
• gospel
• paranormal
• strange

[Ditaunica]

Hum... ¿esto, es lo que llaman "marcha fúnebre"...? XD

[daeronjames]

*My chin dropped all of the way to the core of the earth as I had widened eyes and drool, and because the fire from the core touched my chin, I incinerated to ash*

[mmmbad]

These guys are actually easier on the eyes than those damned Wiggles!

[smoothoperater1984]

It's a bit raw but I like it overall...

[ReviewThisUnboxThat]

249s boom headshot

[chaster1145]

i wanna know step to step on how to make one of those puppets

[voltaman33]

1st minute I knew this was one of the most brilliant and creepily unique videos I have ever seen!!!

[Caleigho]

very, very interesting. I liked it

[420ablesmoker]

start your own show for a bit and see how it goes

[vietdroid]

genius