The Slimer and Mrs. Slimer puppets were operated primarily by Ronald Binion (who designed, built, and controlled puppets for LazyTown, Crank Yankers, and several Jim Henson Company productions) and Rick Lazzarini (an animatronics designer and puppeteer who was part of the special effects crew for films such as Ghostbusters 2, Alien, and Spaceballs). Binion wore the Slimer puppet over his head and operated his hands, while Lazzarini and three other technicians puppeteered both Slimers' eyes, eyebrows, jaws, and tongues. Unfortunately, the puppeteers' work was layered over with CGI in post-production.
All that effort for them to completely remove it, Literately. The CGI did not portray the same slimer movement the puppet portrayed, the facial expressions are wrong and the body behaviour. Also, they made him look evil and manipulative, when in reality he is a simple slime ghost with severe gluttony for food... Slimer is literately harmless and even he knows it.
0:25 The CGI Slimer actually looks way better in this shot than after all the neon glow effects were added. I liked the new movie, but all the neon green and blue glowing effects really made the film's ghost look cheaper than they should have been in 2016. In the original, specially with the library lady, i felt like i was watching actual ghosts. In this new movie, the ghosts didn't feel like ghosts at all. The biggest problem is that the neon glow effect takes away the element that makes a ghost visually scary. Like the electrocuted ghost in the metro was a very scary idea, but the bright neon light makes it look more like something from a rave party. Not scary at all. The ghosts in the original films, even Mr. Stay Puffed, were legit scary.
This is indeed what the CGI Slimer looked like before effects. The particle and comp effects added afterwards overwrote the shaders and made everything look, well... more colourful and less realistic. Sometimes these calls come from the top and all you can do is facilitate the request.
Probably because it was an one time use car for the movie, (kinda like the Camaro for the first transformers movie) since the car had some dangerous scenes, they had to cgi it.
I know this is 2 years later, and you probably know, but my guess was because since they intended on damaging the car, they used the same model car, without the paint job and stuff, so they wouldn’t have to worry about damaging parts If they did multiple shots. And it would take a long time making another drivable car, getting it to look exact.
I didn’t even notice the car was CGI. I was talking about where the car hits the other cars. I thought that was the only fake car. Dang. I do wonder why though.
Damn I miss 1984. 30 years later and the animatronic Slimmer is still better. Please don't show the ladies if you want me to watch it. Give them their own thing.. not Ghostbusters.
@@fernandomorin3764 Shut up, know one asked you! I bet you are one of those people who just like CGI hate the good old special effects! Back in the days, they used animatronics and puppets etc. The original Ghostbusters Slimer was the best and this movie’s one sucked.
Dont use the 2016 no ghost logo for the original Ghostbusters 1 movie use their logo please next time ,slimer has nothing to do with 2016 ,I have never seen the movie and never will
