Smaller, egg-size models were made for less animated movements like flying around the ceiling of the Sedgewick Hotel ballroom. The model had three interchangeable faces for larger expressions, while smaller features like blinking were controlled by cables and rods by a team of puppeteers. Ramis said the comparison was not malicious, explaining that Belushi was the person most likely to trip over a coffee table and knock a bookcase over. Aykroyd admitted the character was inspired by Belushi, particularly his body. It was during this episode that he sculpted the final Slimer design that appears in the film. With that information and a series of Belushi headshots, Johnson took at least three grams of cocaine and believed that Belushi's ghost was visiting him to provide encouragement. The day before his deadline, Johnson learned Aykroyd and Ramis had wanted Slimer to be an homage to John Belushi's likeness. Make him more cartoony, make him less cartoony.' 'give him 13% more pathos, put ears on him, take his ears off, less pathos, more pathos, make his nose bigger, now his nose is too big, make his nose smaller. He said: 'In the beginning they asked for a 'smile with arms' but before I knew it. It went through many variations, which Johnson blamed on executive interference through micromanagement, constant adjustments, and conflicting notes on how to modify each detail.

The Slimer design took six months, and approximately $300,000 to develop.

Now commonly known as 'Slimer', it was not called that until the 1986 animated television series The Real Ghostbusters.

Special effects artist Steve Johnson sculpted the gluttonous, slimy, green ghost then known only as the 'Onion Head ghost' on set due to the puppet's unpleasant smell. in 2012.ĭuring the pre-production of Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman remarked Slimer was sort of like Bluto in the film Animal House, like the ghost of John Belushi. Creation and conception Ghostbusters Slimer, as initially designed by Steve Johnson and decades later, restored by Tom Spina Designs, Inc.

Images of slimer from ghostbusters