Andy Gilleand | The Last of Us: Left Behind (The Movie) @AndyGilleand | Uploaded 10 years ago | Updated 10 hours ago
This movie contains spoilers for The Last of Us's story. Make sure you've seen that before watching this, or you'll spoil a few major scenes.
I was originally planning to make this movie shortly after the DLC came out in February, but I was working on my Beyond Two Souls movie, and shortly after that was finished and released, TLOU Remastered was announced, so I decided to just wait and do my Left Behind movie using The Last of Us Remastered, so that it could be 1080p and have improved graphics.
I try to make my movies in a way that will appeal to both gamers and non gamers alike. Whether you've played the game or not, you should be able to watch my movie and understand and enjoy the story just as if you were watching a hollywood film. For most of my movies, I tend to focus on the cutscenes and limit the gameplay to only that which is essential to understanding the story and maintaining a good flow, but with Left Behind, nearly the entire game is important, because very little of it is traditional "video game" gameplay. Most of what I cut was during the final battle scene, where I died a lot.
Normally I have to try to remove elements that I refer to as "game indicators". These are things that appear on screen that make it obvious you're watching a game rather than a movie. Usually this requires me doing a lot of editing and visual effects to accomplish this, but thankfully The Last of Us Remastered had options to disable the HUD and aiming reticle, which eliminated 90% of these things. I still had about 30 effects shots to do, but that's pretty small compared to some of my other movies. There are one or two things I was unable to remove, but I got rid of most of it. I must say though, disabling the aiming reticle made shooting nearly impossible.
A lot of people have been asking whether I will remake my TLOU movie using the Remastered edition, and as of right now, I'm not planning on it. I do like the potential benefits the higher resolution, improved graphics, and HUD settings would give me, but for now, I'd prefer to focus on making more new movies rather than remaking older ones. 720p still looks fine for TLOU. If I ever have free time and no other movie plans, I may consider doing TLOU remastered, like I did with the Uncharted series, but for now, it's not in the plans.
This movie contains spoilers for The Last of Us's story. Make sure you've seen that before watching this, or you'll spoil a few major scenes.
I was originally planning to make this movie shortly after the DLC came out in February, but I was working on my Beyond Two Souls movie, and shortly after that was finished and released, TLOU Remastered was announced, so I decided to just wait and do my Left Behind movie using The Last of Us Remastered, so that it could be 1080p and have improved graphics.
I try to make my movies in a way that will appeal to both gamers and non gamers alike. Whether you've played the game or not, you should be able to watch my movie and understand and enjoy the story just as if you were watching a hollywood film. For most of my movies, I tend to focus on the cutscenes and limit the gameplay to only that which is essential to understanding the story and maintaining a good flow, but with Left Behind, nearly the entire game is important, because very little of it is traditional "video game" gameplay. Most of what I cut was during the final battle scene, where I died a lot.
Normally I have to try to remove elements that I refer to as "game indicators". These are things that appear on screen that make it obvious you're watching a game rather than a movie. Usually this requires me doing a lot of editing and visual effects to accomplish this, but thankfully The Last of Us Remastered had options to disable the HUD and aiming reticle, which eliminated 90% of these things. I still had about 30 effects shots to do, but that's pretty small compared to some of my other movies. There are one or two things I was unable to remove, but I got rid of most of it. I must say though, disabling the aiming reticle made shooting nearly impossible.
A lot of people have been asking whether I will remake my TLOU movie using the Remastered edition, and as of right now, I'm not planning on it. I do like the potential benefits the higher resolution, improved graphics, and HUD settings would give me, but for now, I'd prefer to focus on making more new movies rather than remaking older ones. 720p still looks fine for TLOU. If I ever have free time and no other movie plans, I may consider doing TLOU remastered, like I did with the Uncharted series, but for now, it's not in the plans.
![God of War [2018] (The Movie)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oXxsnjz8MUE/hqdefault.jpg "God of War [2018] (The Movie)
The story of the 2018 God of War game, edited into a movie. Kratos and his son, Atreus must journey across the world of Norse mythology in order to fulfill a promise...
Sorry about all the technical difficulties in getting this released on time. Thankfully, everything is fixed now!
For those of you unfamiliar with my work, I take the stories of video games and attempt to turn them into movies that would be enjoyable and understandable whether you play the game or not. Where some people may just compile cutscenes, I realize that is simply not enough information to understand the story, so I include as much gameplay as necessary to avoid plot holes and keep the story flowing nicely. I also try to, whenever possible, treat myself like the director, camera operator, and actor. While not always possible, I try to play as if I were on a movie set, rather than just playing a game the way I normally would. If walking is more appropriate, I slow down. If certain camera movements might look better than just whipping the camera around, I try to do that whenever possible. If the character wouldnt actually know where to go next, I try to control their movements as if they were figuring it out, even though I already know what to do.
I also focus on removing elements on screen that make it super obvious that youre watching it a game instead of a hollywood movie, such as button prompts, gameplay objectives, chapter titles, etc. Some of these Im not always able to remove, but I removed nearly every button prompt, and most gameplay objective boxes as well. I was able to remove a few, but not most chapter titles, simply because they covered a large portion of the center of the screen. Immersive mode in the settings helped a lot, but I did need to utilize visual effects and other editing techniques to remove the rest.
This was a much bigger process than I expected it to be. The movie ended up being quite long, and there were a lot more button prompts and other things leftover that I wanted to remove to ensure the most cinematic experience possible. This project required nearly 500 VFX shots, spanning over 50,000 frames total. I worked on this movie for 4 months, which was one of my longest movie projects to date.
If you like the movie, please support the developers if you can by buying the game, and make sure to subscribe so you are able to know when I upload a new movie. If youre interested in supporting me further, I also have a Patreon here:
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Every supporter there will have access to near daily production updates on all of my movies, with a ton of information about whats happening behind the scenes. Supporters who pledge $5 or more will also gain access to the original high quality downloadable versions of my movies, which include much higher bitrates and often include 5.1 surround sound as well.
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