We asked Extreme Ghostbusters Production Supervisor Shannon Muir (Darkness at Noon, Back in the Saddle) to share with GBHQ viewers information
that might not have been available elsewhere. Here's what she had to say, and she promised more to come!

- Character designer Fil Barlow had to come to US from Australia to work with us largely because of problems with the FAX machine. Our machines were somehow squashing and stretching the concept designs that came over from Australia, so we weren't getting the gist of what Fil wanted us to get. So Fil packed up his crew and brought them all over to the US studio. And he's been on nearly every Sony show since!

- Janine's original character design called for her to have slacks. They went back to a skirt just as the boards for "Darkness at Noon" went overseas and not all the panels were changed. I had to spend late into the night pasting a miniature picture of Janine with skirt onto all the storyboard pages as a sidebar and note to make her ON THAT MODEL.

- You notice Kylie's clothes design also changed? She was originally supposed to have the outfit she wears in 97% of "Darkness at Noon" but it was agreed that the costume needed to be simplified. I don't know why we didn't do the same thing to her that we did to Janine on the storyboards, maybe because Kylie had so much more screen time. However, if you pay attention, there is ONE SEQUENCE in "Darkness at Noon" where Kylie wears the casual clothes she'll have for the rest of the series -- when she summons Grandma Rose. This was originally a mistake on the part of the board artist not using (either by ignoring or not being supplied, I forget) the right model that neither I nor the director caught. I didn't notice until I saw the animation. In hindsight, I really like it. It gets you used to the new costume, and is in a stand-alone sequence where the continuity isn't broken. So it's not jarring when you see it later.

- There was a lot of photocopies of REAL GHOSTBUSTERS art delivered to the studio for us to sort through for concept needs or reference. That's what they used as a starting point for the Firehouse and other familiar characters and locations. I think the Grundel model came straight out of there. I remember trying to find a model of one of the Ghostbusters standing alone -- I think we wound up using Venkman -- so that Fil (Barlow) could sketch from it as a reference to put Janine in an old uniform for "Temporary Insanity." (This was shortly before I turned that episode over to someone else per my earlier note.)

To view part one of the Extreme Ghostbusters tidbits series, click here. For more information about Shannon Muir check out our past interview with her as well as the Extreme Ghostbusters area here on GBHQ!