Ghostbusters Afterlife: Muncher
Some work I did pretty early on for the character of Muncher, a wraith that likes to eat metal, that the gang meets inside a old factory.
I was told to incorporate elements of a dog and a grumpy old man.
I did not work on the final design unfortunately, which later on shifted more toward a water-bear look, but it was lot of fun to prepare these little sketches, and I was happy to see how some of my inputs, like the many arms of the very first sketch and the sparkly blue hue were integrated into the final design.
In my first iteration Muncher had a body with was more smokey looking, since he had been haunting a factory for who knows how many years.
Playing with the dog aspect.
And the old man aspect.
I heard that there was a scene in the script where he was supposed to eat a hydrant, so I made these ones.
I really liked to think of him as really voracious.
Do you know those dogs who will eat everything near them?
After a while I transitioned to a light blue, slightly glowy, tone for the body, to connect with Slimer who is green.
I thought it could be neat if we could see inside his translucent ghostly body all the scrap metal he ate.
Maybe when angry Muncher could all of a sudden become much bigger and scarier, a bit like a mix between a puff fish and a rottweiler.
I can imagine him taunting and doing faces at the Ghostbusters kids before quickly flying away.