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December 7, 2016

The Last Of Us 2: Ellie’s Got A Tattoo

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When you saw Naughty Dog’s first trailer for The Last Of Us 2 over the weekend, did you notice Ellie has had some ink done? The now 19-year-old protagonist sported a tattoo on her right arm as she was strumming the guitar. The tattoo was spotted by some viewers and requests were made to the studio to release the design. They did so on their Twitter account today…. Two ferns and a moth. Whether that means anything in the game remains to be revealed. But the process of how they got it on Ellie is quite unusual. Instead of simply texture-mapping it, they drew the tattoo with a Sharpie onto the arm of game designer Alexandria Neonakis, and then digitized her entire arm. “Natalie designed Ellie’s tattoo and also ended up being her hand model,” says game director Neil Druckmann. “[She] went through an intense, brand-new hand scanning process.” And this is what the tattoo looks like on Ellie. This is the first released painting of the character as seen

December 31, 2014

The Last Of Us Creator Wrote A Book, And It’s Just As Good

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Neil Druckmann, the writer behind The Last Of Us, has now released A Second Chance At Sarah, his first original graphic novel, through Dark Horse. If you liked The Last Of Us — and of course you did, everybody does — then you really owe it to yourself to seek out A Second Chance At Sarah, which is just as emotional, dramatic and (at times) humorous as the Naughty Dog game, and you won’t have to wait two or three years for development and debugging. Johnny isn’t having the best of days. He’s holding his first newborn baby in his arms, but his wife just died in childbirth. That’s the way it goes, but then he finds an old amulet and evidence that, a long time ago, Sarah made a deal with a demon in exchange for….something, and the end result was she was fated to die here. As the story begins, Johnny is sent back in time, inside his seventeen-year-old body. He has one day to re-meet Sarah, find