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Frontier (2010) and Avalanche Studios Group (2014) Characters

Tommy

These are the sculpts that I developed for Joel's final in-game character from high-res to the in-game textured model as well as his younger character version in t-shirt and jeans.


Project: The Last of Us, 2013

Ellie

Other Characters For The Last of Us (Infected, Bloater, Sarah, Henry, Jame's Head), Art Test Sculpt (Asian Male) 

Joel

These are some outfits and and hairstyles that I made for Frontier developments, please note that the heads are done by other in-house Frontier artists, and then some outfits, bodies and heads I made at Avalanche Studios for Just Cause 3 and 4.

​Michael Knowland
Sculptor

MICHAEL KNOWLAND

After finishing the art test (viewable below) Naughty Dog hired me onboard to work on The Last of Us where I was able to begin developing cinematic character assets and took on Joel and Ellie from low-resolution scans and character assets to reconstruct and redesign them with accurate forms and a sense of likeness to the reference material, as well as push through on fine details to tie the whole thing together, balancing them all to achieve a certain type, personality, of character.  There are other characters that I worked on for the project, which can also be seen below on this page.