re: Do we keep ignoring what's happening over at Naughty Dog?

Last of Us lead artist is gone.

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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.

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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.

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This was the point that was made on the giantbombcast last week, and perhaps it's true. Is it because ND is so high profile with their recent success that we're hearing more about it, because I've personally never seen this many people leave any studio is this short amount of time.