Once heavily modelled on Juno actress Ellen Page, the new Ellie has now lost her freckles and gained a different shaped nose. ORIGINAL STORY: A new trailer full of The Last of Us footage has revealed a slightly changed look for lead character Ellie. "We're happy with the final result shown in the cinematic we have released today, and hope the fans like her too." "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," Druckmann explained. Creative director Neil Druckmann told IGN that change was made to make Ellie look more like Ashley Johnson, the mo-cap artist and voice actor behind Ellie. Based on what little knowledge I have about 3D sculpting, rigging, and animation, it’s no small feat to seamlessly blend a face into a game that looks passable, let alone good, especially when using a real person for reference.UPDATE: Naughty Dog has commented on the decision to change the look of Ellie. The video showing off the duo’s work was compiled by a YouTuber called Speclizer, and it’s pretty amazing to see this mod in action. The project was actually a collaboration between two different fans - a modder by the name of Vontadeh modeled out Ramsey’s face and put it onto Ellie’s character model, while another modder who goes by smasher248 created tools to implement the model into the game. As a long time mega fan of the series, I’ll have a lot of feelings to parse through once it’s finally out, but until then, I can focus on the fun that’s popping up around the series right now, like this mod that makes Ellie in The Last of Us Part II look exactly like Bella Ramsey, who is portraying the beloved character in HBO’s live action version. Of course, this is in large part due to the fact that HBO’s adaptation of the series is coming up in less than a week now, and conversations about the televised take on the first game have been swirling for months. Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like The Last of Us Part II, or Naughty Dog at the very least, have managed to stay in the news cycle since the sequel’s release back in 2020. What if Bella Ramsey played Ellie in The Last of Us Part II?
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