Motionographer® Stranger Things Season 5 Main on End (Final Credits)

Main on End for Netflix

From the very first season, the main titles from Imaginary Forces set the tone. Now, after collaborating across all five seasons of Stranger Things, the studio returns one final time to help close the story where it all began: the end.

For the series’ final end title sequence, the Duffer Brothers wanted something that would honor the actors and characters, serving as both a farewell and a celebration. They had an initial idea that perhaps it could involve Will’s drawings, and sent over a box of props. Inside the box, Imaginary Forces also discovered the binders and players’ D&D manuals–and from there the idea was born.

“What’s cool about these D&D manuals is there’s color images, and, also, over the years, the style of illustration changes. They brought back illustrators from the actual 1980s who drew in the manuals all the way back then.” — Ross Duffer.

What Imaginary Forces did

Imaginary Forces designed the final end credits as a sweeping illustrated journey through all five seasons of Stranger Things. Each image captures an iconic moment from the series, reimagined in the style of authentic 1980s Dungeons & Dragons manuals. In addition to the characters and scenes from the show, they created maps, charts, and hand-done doodles to immerse the viewer in this stylized vision of the show.

Credits:

Creative Directors: Karin Fong, Rob Slychuk
Designers: Elizabeth Steinberg, Kathy Liang
Editor: Lexi Gunvaldson
Illustrators: Christine Williams, Ken Taylor, Sam Green, Diana Magnuson, Matt Taylor, Tyler Gibb
Animators: Merrill Hall, Max Strizich
Design Intern: Anita Yen
Producer: Jackson Kerr
Associate Producer: Nic Luong
Executive Producer: Renée Robson
Executive Creative Director: Peter Frankfurt