Five of this year’s six nominees for main title design are for shows from the science-fiction, fantasy or horror genres. Only “The White Lotus” is a conventional drama. But all are imaginative, some even delightful, and all were the product of months of design and production.
“When titles are successful, they give an indication of the tone of a show, almost like a book cover,” says Andy Hill, one of six artists nominated for “The Last of Us,” the post-apocalyptic series about a fungus that turns people into zombies.
His talks with executive producers Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, along with considerable scientific research, resulted in the design of constantly growing fungus “grounded in reality, like a nature documentary, but would also at certain points look like an image of a city or a moment that had a relationship to the context of the show.”
Gustavo Santaolalla’s guitar,...
“When titles are successful, they give an indication of the tone of a show, almost like a book cover,” says Andy Hill, one of six artists nominated for “The Last of Us,” the post-apocalyptic series about a fungus that turns people into zombies.
His talks with executive producers Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, along with considerable scientific research, resulted in the design of constantly growing fungus “grounded in reality, like a nature documentary, but would also at certain points look like an image of a city or a moment that had a relationship to the context of the show.”
Gustavo Santaolalla’s guitar,...
- 8/19/2023
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
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