Naughty Dog Changed Ellie To “Resemble A Slightly Younger Teen More Fitting To The Story”

You may not have noticed, but Naughty Dog’s made some changes to The Last Of Us’ Ellie character. The developer shared the reasons why in an interview with IGN.

“When we came up with the character of Ellie we put a lot of thought into what we wanted her to look like, researching the facial proportions, coloring and bone structures of dozens of faces and bodies,” The Last Of Us creative director Neil Druckmann said. “In addition to this, we held numerous casting sessions to ensure we had the right performance capture artist to represent Ellie, eventually selecting actress Ashley Johnson.”

He added: “As we’re still in the midst of development with The Last of Us, the team has been continuing to put a lot of thought into the creation of Ellie. After delving further into the game’s narrative over the past few months, we decided to modify Ellie’s model to better reflect Ashley’s personality, and also resemble a slightly younger teen more fitting to the story. We’re happy with the final result shown in the cinematic we have released today, and hope the fans like her too.”

As for when the game will be shown again, Naughty Dog isn’t spoiling anything, and would only say, “Our team has been working hard to have something ready at E3 that will please our fans.”

No release date has been given the game.