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I could recreate that in After Effects. Snd I'm giving myself one work day to do it. now the series

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cost close to 10 million dollars per episode I assume at least half of that went into this 10

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second scene so I might not get it to quite that level but I do want it good enough that it could

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be used effectively for a parody like the lust of bus or the last of Trouse maybe look I'll work

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on a better one for the final reveal the biggest challenge would be creating these veins which are

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constantly growing dying and then revealing the text if I can approximate something like this it's

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possible that I could make the rest of it work I suspect they would have used a 3D simulation of

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sorts to create these but I don't know Houdini or other Fancy Pants 3D software humble After Effects

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is my Workhorse I'm gonna have to get creative I could do this using trim paths on Strokes in After

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Effects or some very complex masking but there is a plugin that could really save me a lot of time

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autofill from plug in everything can procedurally fill in complex shapes and I've never had a reason

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to try it until now it does cost 50 clams but compared to HBO's 90 million I can justify it

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got anything else now I needed some veins to work with I searched for some veiny image textures

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to save me drawing them by hand and found this one on unsplash I edited it in Photoshop a bit

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to make it resemble fungal veins a bit more put that in its own comp in After Effects and apply

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it autofill to that comp I placed where I wanted the spread to originate from and after tweaking a

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few settings it was looking like growing veins but the shape just wasn't veiny enough not as

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vascular and organic as I wanted it so I went back into Photoshop and adjusted it some more

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essentially hand drawing a lot of the veins I was hoping to avoid but it was looking better

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the timing was a bit too boring and linear though so I pre-compt it again enabled time remapping and

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added a slight speed ramp so it starts faster then slows down towards the end now I needed

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them to fade out as they were drawn on so they start pale Fade to red and then disappear I'll

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add color later so for the moment I just need it to fade to black I put those animated veins in a

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new comp and figured out a way to mimic a gradient which was to add a duplicate of the animated veins

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that was a bit darker and had that Play Over the Top slightly delayed so it would appear to get

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darker the longer it was on screen then I made a bunch of copies for it to look smooth I do suspect

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there is a better way to do this so if you've got another way let me know in the comments and

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while you're there every like this video receives goes to help clickers learn how to double click

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now that my veins were looking respectable I could start building the background I started with the

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dark solid with a darker vignette and a subtle texture then I threw on that animated vein comp

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I recolored it using the CC toner effect which Maps new colors over your existing ones I also

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added the layer Styles in a glow and drop shadow to make it look a bit more 3D then I duplicated

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it a few times and moved it around so the new veins were constantly sprouting up and fading

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away the veins were looking a bit too similar so I made another vein texture in Photoshop that was

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mainly a veining in One Direction so I had another vein option I also made more duplicates that faded

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out a bit slower so some of the redness stayed on screen for a bit longer great now it needs text I

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pre-cut the logo and got to work figuring out how I was going to reveal it the best solution

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I found was to stack up some of those vein comps to just about fill the area and then

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put the text layer on top of all of them with its blending mode set to stencil Alpha so it cuts out

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everything that is not within its Alpha Channel there are still some gaps so I grabbed an ink

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reveal mat and used that to fill in the holes then sneakily faded on the logo over everything

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at the end the last thing was to add this to our main comp and apply some effects on top

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which always brings everything together to feel cohesive now before I do I do want to shout out

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elastic the studio who made the original opening credits with this spectacular 3D secrets as well

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they did a magnificent job they really are some of the best in the business you'll already know

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their other work recreating something and slapping it up on YouTube takes just a tiny

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fraction of the skill of developing the idea refining it getting it approved and executing

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it I certainly don't want to take away anything from their tremendous work I like to make these

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title Recreations for my own amusement and to show that you can create some pretty impressive

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stuff with some very accessible tools elastic did an incredible job they are truly inspiring

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we wouldn't be here otherwise now on to the final effect on an adjustment layer on top

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of everything I added some slight chromatic aberration using quick chromatic aberration 3

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which is a free plug-in from plugging everything again who also made autofill they didn't sponsor

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this they just happened to make some very convenient plugins for the end of the world

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then a slight lens warping using CC lens and a transform increasing the scale to hide those

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warped edges a camera lens blur to Rack focus and blur out the first few seconds and some

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very slight foam grain using noise hls Auto here it is before and after the effects and I was done

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I don't have friends I got family look that one's not bad you've got to give me that surely now it's

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certainly not a smooth detailed or as vascular as the original despite my best attempts but not bad

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for a day's work I'm pretty happy with the result what do you think and immediately after finishing

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this and posting a teaser I learned there was another After Effects plugin designed specifically

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to simulate this exact type of organic veiny growth which doesn't frustrate me in the slightest

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if you want to see me tackle another great title animation you can check

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out this next video I'll see you there [Music]

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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) https://aescripts.com/autofill/?aff=69 https://aescripts.com/quick-chromatic-aberration/?aff=69 The Original Title Sequence by Elastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SWhBsbxmpk https://makemakeentertainment.com/elastic/ ❤ My Master Motion Design course: https://www.benmarriott.com/ ►Follow my ongoing adventures on Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser

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