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Mar 27, 2023 · It was early 1989, and employees at George Lucas’s famed visual effects house needed to create a painting of a 16th-century Carpathian warlord that could come to life for director Ivan Reitman’s...
- How Vigo Began
- Making Vigo Breathe
- The Photograph That Became A Centuries-Old Painting
- Where The Original Vigo Painting Is Now
Director Ivan Reitman knew he wanted something frightening for Vigo the Carpathian. Wizards at Industrial Light And Magic worked up many concepts for the character, and artist Lou Police drew a reference copy. According to Reitman, they were all “too Conan.” So artist Glen Eytchison was brought in. Eytchison had the perfect experience to draw from:...
As Eytchison revealed on a Ghostbusters forum post, he immediately began making a layered composition. That composition was approved by Reitman, and artist Lou Police made a reference painting for them to work from. But that painting wasn’t the one fans see in Ghostbusters II.
Producers had planned to use a scaled-up painting, but the match wasn’t close enough. So Eytchison and crew came up with a more creative solution. They posed Wilhelm in the scene, lit it to look flat, and then photographed the entire thing. They took the photograph, made a giant copy, and artificially aged it. That’s the truth about Vigo’s painting...
So what happened to the painting? Since it wasn’t a painting, that’s a complicated question. Some of the concept art continues to float around, but Eytchison says the original reference photograph hangs in ILM offices, Police’s smaller painting is in Ivan Reitman’s home, and the rest is in the hands of collectors. If you’ve seen any prints online, ...
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Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf. 1505 — 1610*. The rich history of Vigo the Carpathian extends much further than his appearance in Ghostbusters II. Born in 1505 in the Balkan kingdom of Carpathia, Vigo rose to power and tyrannically ruled his country for almost a century.
Ghostbusters II. Ghostbusters II is a 1989 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Potts. It is the sequel to the 1984 film Ghostbusters and the second film in the Ghostbusters ...
May 15, 2024 · The disturbing real life of the actor from the Ghostbusters II painting. King Charles' first official portrait has been unfavourably compared to Vigo the Carpathian. Ben Falk. Updated May 15,...
It is revealed during the Thanksgiving Day Parade level that Ray kept the "Fettuccine" painting from the end of Ghostbusters II at Ray's Occult. The last three minutes of the end credits were to feature the Vigo painting commenting on all the credits.
