Steve Johnson (born Steven Marcus Jacobs; February 7, 1960)[1] is an American special effects artist whose career has spanned more than thirty years.

Some of his best-known creations include Slimer for Ghostbusters (1984), the alien seductress Sil for Species (1995), Robin Williams's robotics for Bicentennial Man (1999), and Doctor Octopus's arms for Spider-Man 2 (2004).

He then worked on The Howling (1981) and two other films with Rob Bottin,[4] after which Rick Baker hired Johnson as a member of the special makeup effects crew for the John Landis blockbuster, An American Werewolf in London (1981).

[5] In 1982, Johnson worked on Ivan Reitman's new project, Ghostbusters, where he created "Slimer", which he based on John Belushi and the "librarian ghost".

Sil's alien form had to have both a full-body animatronic version with replaceable arms, heads and torsos, as well as a rubber body suit that could be worn by actress Natasha Henstridge.

[9] During the XFX and Edge FX years, Johnson also worked on two Stephen King mini-series: The Stand (1994)[8] and The Shining (1997), for which he won Emmy Awards.

In an update on Sept. 27th, 2018, Steve announced that Rubberhead Volume II was coming along great and that the goal was to have it at the printer by the end of October 2018 with plans of shipping in November.

For the film Innocent Blood (1992), Johnson innovated contact lenses that could glow and change color on command without digital after-effects.

[13] For Lord of Illusions (1995), horror master Clive Barker required Johnson to create an organic-looking creature with skin that could pulse, move, and morph without the use of stop motion photography or other techniques such as mold-casting that were industry standards at the time.

Thus Johnson innovated a monster-making technique with Bill Bryan that employed plastic bags, old yogurt containers, colored methyl cellulose "slime", and used gravity and liquid as a propellant.

Johnson was featured in the documentary, as he was a principal special effects artist on the film working primarily on Superman's "light up" regeneration suit.