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At the heart of our work is a complex message that has been condensed into a metaphor that is both striking and concise. Our ethos embodies a harmonized balance of creative expression, problem solving and of course, fun.

WALKING DEAD WEDNESDAYS 🧟🔎We’re kicking off by going back to Seasons 3 and 4—and looking at how the world of The Walki...
10/07/2026

WALKING DEAD WEDNESDAYS 🧟🔎

We’re kicking off by going back to Seasons 3 and 4—and looking at how the world of The Walking Dead continued to decay, one title sequence at a time.

From the beginning, the concept for the main titles was to create a world that felt abandoned—as if humanity had disappeared and everything left behind was slowly being reclaimed by time.

Empty spaces. Forgotten objects. Familiar locations. Remnants of the characters’ lives. Each season, they become more weathered, corroded and overgrown, setting the tone before the episode even begins.

But look closely, because there’s more hiding in these titles than you might think. 👀

We filled the sequences with Easter eggs and visual references connected to the story—Hershel’s pocket watch, the prison, abandoned buildings, weapons and personal objects from the world the survivors have passed through. They become artifacts of the apocalypse, carrying pieces of the story into the titles.

And the sequence was never meant to stay frozen.

In Season 3, the imagery becomes darker and more threatening as survival grows increasingly brutal. By Season 4, some familiar images return, others disappear and new references emerge. Everything feels further gone—more deteriorated, more overgrown and more consumed by the world around it.

That was always an important part of the idea: the titles have a memory.

Rather than reinventing the sequence every season, we let the same world continue to age alongside the characters—accumulating history, decay and clues to the story along the way.

Even THE WALKING DEAD logo deteriorates from season to season, becoming a subtle visual record of just how much time—and destruction—has passed.

Seen side by side, Seasons 3 and 4 reveal one of the ideas at the heart of the sequence:

The apocalypse isn’t static. It keeps aging.

Swipe through Seasons 3 & 4 and see what you can spot. What Easter eggs did you catch? 🔎

And every Wednesday this month, we’ll be looking at another chapter in the evolution of The Walking Dead titles.

🔥 THE BEGINNING OF THE END 🔥For House of the Dragon Season 3, the tapestry isn’t simply telling the history of House Tar...
10/06/2026

🔥 THE BEGINNING OF THE END 🔥

For House of the Dragon Season 3, the tapestry isn’t simply telling the history of House Targaryen—it’s beginning to bear the scars of it.

In the final episodes of the season, as the war intensifies and key characters fall, we wanted the main title sequence to evolve with the story. The tapestry that has been feverishly stitched together throughout the season begins to unravel under the weight of the conflict it depicts.

Threads streak across the fabric like arrows flying through the sky. Blood seeps through its fibers. We move behind the tapestry, revealing its reverse side—a reflection of the two-sided nature of a civil war in which both sides share the same blood.

And the embers that have been threatening the tapestry all season finally land.

Fire catches. Blood carries the flames across the surface. Stitches burn, flatten and blacken in their wake, transforming the tapestry from a record of Targaryen history into a physical manifestation of the destruction consuming the family itself.

By Episode 308, the invisible hands that have worked so relentlessly to create this history are confronted with something they can no longer contain.

The tapestry is no longer just being woven.

It’s being destroyed.

Just like the illustrious House of Fire and Blood itself. 🔥🐉🩸

A look behind the scenes at the ideas, design and craft that brought the final chapters of our House of the Dragon Season 3 main title sequence to life.

🎃 FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD INTO HALLOWEEN… 🎃Before the witches, flying monkeys and dark magic of Oz the Great and Po...
10/05/2026

🎃 FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD INTO HALLOWEEN… 🎃

Before the witches, flying monkeys and dark magic of Oz the Great and Powerful take over, the journey begins with a different kind of illusion.

For our main title sequence, we collaborated with director Sam Raimi to create an opening that sets up both the world of the film and the era of its hero — Oscar Diggs, a small-time magician and showman who is about to be transported from 1905 Kansas into the extraordinary world of Oz.

Drawing inspiration from the theater of perspective, a pre-cinematic form of 3D entertainment, we constructed miniature paper worlds from layers of dimensional imagery. The effect feels part magic trick, part Victorian theater and part early cinema — an appropriate introduction to a story built around illusion, spectacle and the question of what is real.

As the camera travels deeper into these miniature worlds, elements of the adventure begin to emerge: fantastical landscapes, ominous forests, witches, creatures and hints of the dangers waiting beyond the curtain. Even the typography becomes part of the spectacle, with 37 different fonts woven into imagery designed around the film’s characters and its turn-of-the-century visual language.

Presented in black-and-white and stereoscopic 3D, the sequence ultimately flows directly into the film’s opening scenes in Kansas — bridging our handcrafted theater with Sam Raimi’s story before Oz eventually explodes into color.

A little old-fashioned movie magic, a little darkness and plenty of witches. 🧙‍♀️🔮

The perfect road into Halloween. 🎃

10/02/2026

What if the landscape itself could remember what happened there?

For Daniel Myrick’s Solstice, our main title sequence was designed to bring the audience into a world where the natural and supernatural are almost impossible to separate.

The film follows Megan, still grieving the su***de of her twin sister Sophie, as she travels with friends to her family’s remote lake house in the Louisiana bayou. As the summer solstice approaches—a moment associated in the film with the boundary between the living and the dead becoming especially thin—Megan begins to believe Sophie is trying to reach her from beyond the grave.

Our sequence sets up that premise through images that feel simultaneously beautiful, organic and unsettling.
Forests, water, branches and reflections are transformed through symmetry and abstraction. Familiar landscapes begin to resemble inkblots, faces and strange organic forms. Images double and mirror themselves, subtly echoing Megan and Sophie’s relationship as identical twins while suggesting another world existing just beneath—or alongside—the one we can see.

The imagery continually shifts between recognizable and ambiguous, creating the sense that something is hiding inside the landscape waiting to reveal itself. That tension becomes a visual expression of the film itself: grief becoming obsession, memory becoming presence, and the natural world slowly giving way to something supernatural.

Before the story begins, the titles establish its central question:
When the boundary between two worlds becomes thin enough, what might cross over?

10/01/2026

WE’RE KICKING OFF HALLOWEEN SEASON BY GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO 2000. 🎃

For our very first horror film, Lost Souls, we created a main title sequence designed to introduce the supernatural battle at the heart of the story before the film even begins.

The film follows a woman who becomes convinced that an unsuspecting man has been chosen as the human vessel for Satan. For the opening, we wanted to establish that struggle between good and evil without depicting it literally — reducing it instead to something elemental.

An undulating abstract surface slowly reveals itself as a pool of water. Across it, darkness and light seem locked in an endless struggle: black, tar-like liquid convulsions spreading through the frame, interrupted by blinding, almost rapturous bursts of light.

It becomes a primordial battleground — two opposing forces existing within the same space, constantly overtaking and transforming one another.

We crafted much of the imagery practically through in-camera VFX, experimenting with liquids, light, reflections, movement and exposure to create textures that felt simultaneously physical and otherworldly. Through editorial, title design and animation, we shaped those experiments into a constantly evolving visual progression — controlling the rhythm, juxtaposition and escalation of light and darkness as the typography emerges from and disappears back into this shifting environment.

Before Lost Souls introduces its characters or reveals the supernatural forces at work, the titles establish the central idea of the film: light and darkness, good and evil, bound together in an unending struggle.

Twenty-six years later, it feels like the perfect place to begin our trip through the darker side of the yU+co archive.

Halloween season starts here. 👻

What does a life look like when it’s been torn apart — and someone gives you a reason to put it back together?That idea ...
09/30/2026

What does a life look like when it’s been torn apart — and someone gives you a reason to put it back together?

That idea became the foundation of our main title sequence for Netflix’s Man on Fire.

Creasy is a former Special Forces veteran carrying the fragments of a violent past, pulled into a dangerous conspiracy when he becomes the protector of a teenage girl named Poe. For the sequence, we wanted to create a visual language that could capture both sides of his story: a man coming apart and a world in which the truth itself has been obscured.

Our answer was shredded paper.

We begin in the grounded reality of Rio de Janeiro — its beauty, scale and energy set against the danger and volatility of the favelas. But as the sequence progresses, that reality begins to fracture.

Images are sliced into strips. Faces disappear and reform. Moments from Creasy’s past collide with locations, documents and imagery connected to the conspiracy surrounding him. The paper begins moving in increasingly surreal, choreographed ways, carrying us from one image to another like memories being pulled apart and reconstructed.

Then the fragments begin to burn.

Embers pierce the imagery as the distinction between memory, evidence and the present starts to collapse. Everything — including Creasy himself — feels caught in the crossfire.

But beneath all of that fragmentation is something holding the story together.

Poe.

The sequence ultimately resolves on a single image of Poe and Creasy together. In a world defined by violence, secrets and pieces of a life Creasy is struggling to rebuild, their relationship becomes the one thing that gives those pieces meaning.

And from that image, our title emerges:

MAN ON FIRE. 🔥

Created by yU+co in collaboration with writer and producer Kyle Killen.

ONE SEAT AT A TIME. ❤️⚽️The Ted Lasso title sequence was built around a simple idea: one person can change the world aro...
09/29/2026

ONE SEAT AT A TIME. ❤️⚽️

The Ted Lasso title sequence was built around a simple idea: one person can change the world around them.

Ted begins alone in a stadium of worn, blue seats. Then his seat turns red. From there, the transformation spreads outward—seat by seat—cleaning away the graffiti and turning the stadium into Richmond red.
But bringing that idea to life started with the real thing.

For the sequence, we photographed and studied actual stadium seats, capturing their wear, texture, graffiti and imperfections. Those details became the foundation for the CG stadium and gave us something authentic to transform.

This behind-the-scenes look shows the journey from the real stadium to the digital one—and how a seemingly simple visual metaphor was built one seat at a time.

Because in Ted Lasso, change doesn’t happen all at once.

It starts with one person. ❤️

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ONE SEAT AT A TIME. ❤️⚽️The Ted Lasso title sequence was built around a simple idea: one person can change the world aro...
09/29/2026

ONE SEAT AT A TIME. ❤️⚽️

The Ted Lasso title sequence was built around a simple idea: one person can change the world around them.

Ted begins alone in a stadium of worn, blue seats. Then his seat turns red. From there, the transformation spreads outward—seat by seat—cleaning away the graffiti and turning the stadium into Richmond red.
But bringing that idea to life started with the real thing.

For the sequence, we studied actual stadium seats, capturing their wear, texture, graffiti and imperfections. Those details became the foundation for the CG stadium and gave us something authentic to transform.

This behind-the-scenes look shows the journey from the real stadium to the digital one—and how a seemingly simple visual metaphor was built one seat at a time.

Because in Ted Lasso, change doesn’t happen all at once.

It starts with one person. ❤️

BEFORE AI, THERE WAS SILICON VALLEY. 💻🚀📉Before AI became your coworker, crypto became a personality, and every startup p...
09/28/2026

BEFORE AI, THERE WAS SILICON VALLEY. 💻🚀📉

Before AI became your coworker, crypto became a personality, and every startup promised to “change the world”… there was Silicon Valley.

For Mike Judge’s HBO comedy, we wanted the title sequence to establish the world of the show before we ever met its characters: an entire ecosystem driven by ambition, competition, money, hype — and the constant race to build the next big thing.

So we created Silicon Valley in miniature.

Seen from an isometric, almost godlike perspective, the landscape transforms in a rapid time-lapse. Startups appear overnight. Companies expand into sprawling campuses. Logos grow larger. New competitors move in. Others collapse, disappear, or are swallowed up — only for something new to immediately take their place.

It’s the entire premise of the show compressed into a few seconds.

Richard Hendricks and Pied Piper are trying to survive inside a world that never stops moving. Success can turn into failure almost overnight, today’s revolutionary idea can become tomorrow’s obsolete technology, and there’s always another startup waiting to disrupt the company that just disrupted everyone else.

As the show evolved, the titles evolved with it.

Each season we returned to our miniature Silicon Valley and updated the landscape to reflect what was happening in the real tech industry. Companies arrived and disappeared. Logos changed. New technologies and trends took over. And hidden throughout were new visual jokes and Easter eggs commenting on the increasingly strange world of tech.

The result was a title sequence that was never really finished — because Silicon Valley itself was never finished.

Startups rise. Startups fall. Empires get built. Empires disappear.

And then someone shows up with a better pitch deck.

Years later, the only thing that may have changed is that some of the satire feels a little less like satire. 🤖

Can you spot the differences from season 1 to season 6?

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