The Last of Us: Season 1 | VFX Breakdown | Digital Domain

For Episode 4 of The Last of Us, Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Mitch Drain and his team were tasked with creating the environment for the post-apocalyptic city. The team added overgrowth, decay and debris along with abandoned cars, FedEx trucks, and military vehicles, and more to truly set the scene.

For the season finale, The VFX team wrapped up its work creating a backdrop of CG environments, as Joel and Ellie drive pass a digitally created sign that reads “Welcome to Wyoming,” signifying the end and beginning of their journey.

The Last of Us season one is available now exclusively on HBO Max.

[congruityproductions]

This is the most profound compositing work I've seen yet. Just takin what's already in the environment and aging it to look post apocalyptic is the best example of the attention to detail to create a perfectly realistic image.

[kikofx]

the environment work is amazing didn't realize some of the foliage was created in post until I saw your breakdown so cool!

[tbuk]

Holy shit, I was looking for WETA's breakdown for the bloater and stumbled across this, and I amazed. Throughout the show, I never realized that any of the environments were digital, I assumed they had to be well-composited set pieces. This is incredible!

[Charlie_Alpha_Lima]

Blown away by the amount of work on the road like dirt and grass. This is a LOT of work!

Amazing stuff! It looks stunning!! Im a VFX student just learning Nuke. Is it possible to share the softwares involved? It would be really helpful as Id like to practice to make something similar. thank you very much!

[jalin]

you guys helped so much with this epic story

[vimafx]

what software they used for the camera track, it perfectly matches with the footage

[someartproduction]

How is possible to add grass on stage, when people run? They run not on green screen. Who can tell?

[gurupatil]

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