Spook Central: The Ghostbusters Companion - Behind The Scenes of Ghostbusters II

Spook Central: The Ghostbusters Companion - Established August 1996 By Paul Rudoff

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BEHIND THE SCENES
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Here you will see pictures of the crew making the film, concept drawings of some of the scenes and characters, storyboards, and much more - all to give you an insight as to how the film was made.

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Ecto-1A Blueprints Although not the "official" blueprints (that being the ones used in the making of the film), these blueprints from Ertl are pretty accurate and are probably based on the real thing. Thanks to Norm Gagnon for providing these blueprints.

Vigo's transformation Concept studies for Vigo's transformation sequence. EDITOR'S NOTES: Based upon these sculptures, I would venture to guess that Vigo was originally supposed to transform into Ray at the end of the film, inside of just "becoming" him as he quickly turned around.

This Benton Jew illustration concept of ill-fated Hindenburg passengers was discarded in favor of water-logged spirits disembarking a materialized Titanic.

For shots of the full-length Lady Liberty walking through the streets of Manhattan, a detailed suit was prepared to use for both blue-screen and practical photography of Liberty walking through a miniture Manhattan set. Here, performer Jim Fye is transformed with the aid of Buzz Neidig.

TOP: A detailed special effects storyboard.
BOTTOM: The scene as seen in the final film.

Howie Weed of the creature shop airbrushes an application of foam latex to the Nunzio Scoleri character head.

TOP: Mark Sullivan's matte painting of the exterior of Peter Venkman's apartment building. The actual painting is nearly four feet tall and six feet wide.
BOTTOM: The matte painting as seen compositied in the final film.