Aother One Bites the Dust at Naughty Dog
The Last of Us Lead Character Artist Leaves Naughty Dog
Naughty Dog has lost yet another member of its staff, this time in the shape of lead character artist on The Last of Us, Michael Knowland.
The news comes courtesy of Superannuation, who cites Knowland's LinkedIn profile as the source of the information. He'd been with Naughty Dog for more than three years, with two of those focused on The Last of Us. Prior to this, he worked at Elite: Dangerous studio Frontier Developments.
He's the latest in a number of high profile departure from the studio. Uncharted creative director Amy Hennig left Naughty Dog earlier this year, though has since joined Visceral Games to work on its unannounced Star Wars project. This was followed by the news Justin Richmond, who was working on Uncharted PS4 as game director, also left the studio, in his case to take up a position at League of Legends dev Riot. Art director Nate Wells announced his departure to join Unfinished Swan studio Giant Sparrow last week.
We don't know what Knowland's future holds just yet, though it's not thought he was involved in Uncharted 4. Perhaps with work complete on The Last of Us and the prospect of starting work on a new project he simply fancied a change.
Source: IGN
