The REAL Giraffe in The Last Of Us 🤯 #shorts
6,478Yes, the giraffe in HBO's The Last of Us finale was real, his name is Nabo and he lives in Calgary.
If you're like me and you thought the CGI looked weird, and then we were sort of right.
The first season finale of HBO's The Last of Us left viewers with a lot of questions unanswered. Chief among them: Was that a real giraffe that Joel and Ellie were feeding, or what? Plenty of viewers thought it was CGI (and not very convincing CGI at that), but it turns out that yes indeed, it was 100% flesh and blood.
The giraffe in question appears during a quiet interlude in the episode: Ellie and Joel discover the creature roaming free amidst ruined buildings, and take a moment to feed it and marvel at its presence. As Polygon(opens in new tab) noted, it's an important scene in the game, and was replicated almost shot-for-shot in the show.
Plenty of people on Reddit(opens in new tab) and social media copped to not being able to tell if the giraffe was real, but they may have been faked out in part because there were plenty of other CGI effects involved in the scene. The enclosure where Nabo was being held, for example, was surrounded by green screens.
Nabo's presence in the show was actually leaked, accurately, almost a year ago, but apparently either nobody noticed or everyone forgot.
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