CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, July 27, 2016

The Character Shop creates an Animatronic Slimer for GHOSTBUSTERS!

www.character-shop.com: What actor likes to react to a chrome-and-silver ball in these days of overly CGI-ed event films? They'd prefer to act with something real and present. Director Paul Feig had this in mind when he chose Rick Lazzarini and TCS to create a couple of very cool animatronic creations for the 2016 reboot of "Ghostbusters". Paul had worked with Rick and renowned puppeteer Ronald Binion on a Ford campaign together, and when it was announced that Feig was going to reboot one of the most iconic films in recent history, Lazzarini reminded him that he'd created several ghosts for "Ghostbusters 2" and would love to be involved. Feig responded that while it was early, Rick was "at the top of my list!".

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The end of the article infuriated me I thought the article was going to end well happy and it kind of did. This company did so much work and they were pushed down every step of the way. They kept going above and beyond what they asked and the people kept knocking them down. The work they did was incredible the pics and videos of the two are beyond amazing how real it looks and how it works with moving pieces. This is just another example of art being ignored or not been given credit.To not be getting credit for all the hard work they did thats just not right they got a kind of recognition by a Facebook post. But imagine how many people have watched the movie but never saw the Facebook post its completely unfair to these hard working artists. Maybe one day it will change and companies won't be so greedy