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