The new HBO drama series The Leftovers takes place three years after a global rapture, including the enigmatic vanishing of 140 million people. Show creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta turned to design and production studio yU+co and creative director Garson Yu for a title sequence to match the ambitions of the show. Lindelof knew he wanted a Renaissance-inspired credit sequence, so yU+co came up with the concept of using a fresco painting style to depict the forever-changed world of the show. To create an authentic fresco look, Yu worked closely with Rhode Island–based painter Jon Foster to ensure that all of the subtle facial expressions Yu envisioned for each painting were represented. From there, Foster’s images were digitally rendered in layers to heighten their sense of depth, and then composited onto a 3-D animated dome designed by yU+co. The combination of the images and the characters, coupled with camera movement, help create an immersive point-of-view.