Recreating The Last Of Us Titles Was A Challenge...

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Published 2023-01-19
I break down my process for recreating the title card from HBO's The Last Of Us. I used Adobe Photoshop and to create textures and After Effects to animate the veins, create speed ramps, reveal the text, and composite it all under a series of effects.

The plugins I used: (Affiliate links)
aescripts.com/autofill/?aff=69
aescripts.com/quick-chromatic-aberration/?aff=69

The Original Title Sequence by Elastic:
   • The Last of Us | Opening Credits | Max  
makemakeentertainment.com/elastic/

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All Comments (21)
  • @Jeeves
    The titles were created by Elastic using Houdini, Cinema 4D and Octane. I was working as a designer for part of the sequence doing lookdev as a freelancer for a little bit
  • @qwertyboo
    The game title sequence is actually photography + premiere pro. The veins are practical. So cool.
  • @BrOrlandi
    Any chance to have a detailed tutorial on this? Or the assets to reproduce. I'm trying to recreate it my self with a different text also.
  • SO many emotions flowing just watching this!! Amazing work!
  • @jeehoonoh
    Your talent and creativity to come up with the ways to recreate the effect is inspiring
  • @DarkNessBear
    First time watcher, but CHEERS to you for giving love to the Original Creators of the Effect. I immensely dislike when YouTube creators act as if they are better or like, "theres no reason you had to spend any money on this!". I'm a fan of you now, great job too!!
  • Never been interested in editing, but this video popped up in my recommended since I'd been binging some Last of Us content. Glad it did! This was direct, well-explained, and aspirational. Good shit!
  • @prcttybird
    Wow,I still can`t believe it! It`s truly wonderful to see you recreating those with ease and really interesting, to see how you achieved such. I`m here with my jaw on the floor about the fact, we all can achieve a few of those wonderful projects by ourselves with time and knowledge (and a bit of online help)😄
  • @RaoniLima43
    Thank you for this Ben, your content is incredible.
  • Something that might also have helped is to use something like the oil filter in photoshop to give it that more sticky veiny feel
  • @kungfuremix
    This is incredible to watch no matter which approach you used for any project. The process, breakdown and final results were identical to the real deal especially this one that looks really difficult! I must ask how do you know which approach, plugin or technique to use or to try help reach the results faster? You hit it right on the head each time and I'm forever impressed ALWAYS!
  • @KO-MODO
    As a motion designer myself I'm very very impressed Congrats Ben!
  • @antroxity
    This somewhat inspired me to push through the week. Thanks, Ben!
  • @JIVOStudio
    Realy impressed by the tought process in recreating this, amazing work !
  • This is amazing Ben! For the gradient grow I would have tried stacking only one delayed layer of the growing veins map, invert it (maybe use minimax and gaussian blur), set it to multiply (this would have only output the tip of the layer) and then use echo for the smooth fade out
  • @gamatoszaras
    That's awesome Ben! I think a subtle CC plastic would look good on it