Dew dew dew, dew dew, another one bites the dust..........

http://gearnuke.com/michael-knowland-lead-character-artist-last-us-leaves-naughty-dog-report/

Michael Knowland, Lead Character Artist of The Last of Us, Leaves Naughty Dog – Report

According to the listing on the Linkedin profile of Michael Knowland, he has left Naughty Dog after working for them as Lead Character Artist for more than 3 years.

Michael Knowland was the lead character artist for the critical and commercial hit The Last of Us from Naughty Dog. He worked on the game for a grand total of 2 and half years was the lead character artist. It appears that he has left Naughty Dog now, presumably after finishing his work on The Last of Us. His previous credit includes working at Frontier Developments. He hasn’t written about his new workplace yet.

He now joins the ranks of other former Naughty Dog employees that left the company recently including Nate Wells, Justin Richmond, Amy Hennig, who all left Naughty Dog at the start of this new generation.

Ruh roh raggy.

What the **** is going on with this studio that their big employees are all leaving?

Wow.. Leaving after finishing a game, hold the presses!!

I'm sure you have absolutely no idea what the reasoning behind the departures is, so don't bother replying.

Worked on TLOU, quit after it finished, by that point UC4 was two years in development. I was unaware development staff were contracted to studios for life.

Imagine if MS or EA had a dev studio as good as Naughty Dog, they might get this much attention on their personnel turnover.

Usually people move onto different projects WITHIN the company that they're working for. They don't just leave the company after a game has been finished.

Next up, naughtydog leaves naughtydog.

It's nice to have Naughty Dog on a resume to springboard for bigger opportunity, it seems. Good timing, as a new generation is upon us.

Next thread title? "Naughty leaves Dog".

ND employees running like they saw the White Rabbit at the Cave of Caer Bannog

...or the French Taunter...

I support Sony and this is slightly worrying but all that is needed is a strong E3 showing by ND and all the lemmings can be quiet.

My guess is.... Naughtydog pushed the boundaries of gameplay and style at one point..... the first uncharted and last of us were interesting.

But now the studio is getting too much fame for creating graphic-whoring linear shooters... they are forced to keep making them over and over for the bro-cow gamers .... if I was a leader in the creative role there... I would leave.... as its now devoid of any.

"Whats our next game guys" "A ZOMBIE SHOOTER REPLACE DRAKE WITH AN OLD MAN, ADD A LITTLE GIRL MAKE IT DRAMATIC" .... jesus christ.

Yep. Once the gameplay footage is shown at E3 all the shitposting journalists and gloating lemmings will be silenced for good.

ofcourse as expected a top dog with gotys all over the place, the king in this industry gets so much attention.

stop the presses ladys and gentleman

@MBirdy88: more than 200 award >>>>>> your opinion! FACT!

Linear 10 hour shooter with no re playability value... and not even the best mechanics in their own genres.... is also a fact.

Ever heard of multiplayer? i personally spent over 100 hours on uncharted 3.

There is a difference between a fact and a fanboy and i believe you are the latter and once again, let me quote you on that titanfall avy

Says the person who has a titanfall avy

Lems these days :/

Ok seriously after the first few I ignored it, but now another LEAD employee leaves? It's like they don't even care anymore....

Next up, naughtydog leaves naughtydog.

It's almost as though they've only just started their next project and some developers with the GOTY 2013 under their belt have chosen to leave to find new projects and new challenges.

Nah.

lol he work on one game and leave, but this is key ND employee and major blow. And lemming wonder why they are consider bottom feeder fanboy. Sadly, ND can have one employee left only and still superior than MS first party studios.

maybe the ND office smells so goddamn bad that it's forcing people to leave.

inb4: "Concern Trolling; The Topic".

Uncharted MP NEVER took off, I don't care if you like it, its mundane/mediocre at best and received that way. why would I play that MP when I can play mnany better ones, ironically Titanfall.

PC/PS4/Vita player sorry to dissapoint. linear 10 hour shooters never make the top of my lists... and are not creative,.

Cows should give a actual **** at this point. There is trouble in paradise.

The only thing left to do? LMMFAO!!!

My vote goes to who gives a crap. There is a lot of dc in here though.

...lol? Who cares?

Xbone can only dream of a game like TLOU and a studio like Naughty Dog.

How come none of this shit was reported last generation? Sounds like the gaming press playing for MS again.

lol lems have no ps4 bash content so they fall back to this. LMAO

we should all make threads about people leaving studios. nerds!

Mediocre? In what way? last time i checked uncharted 3 received a 9.0 here and has a meta of 92 and considering multiplayer is part of the review, it does not make it mediocre

Don't start forcing your irrelevant opinions as fact

Don't be mad about your favorite studio losing employes

Damn I cant keep track. When all your top people leave it is for a reason.

It is my belief *waves finger in air* that these top personnel (like Jack Tretton) are privy to a inside leak that spells Sony's demise.

Who cares. People switch up jobs everyday. One thing to consider is being on ND might bring some lucrative jobs in other companies. Higher position etc.

No games to play so they're back to whining about the cream of the crop.

As I said, when they show off gameplay footage at E3, the likes of Justin will have to shut up forever. :)

i guess all the ND employees are sick of making crappy movies.

whos left there anyways? joe the janitor? i heard he might be leaving too.

shh no sense, only employmentgate now.

That's a good point. I couldn't tell you who quit from Bungie in their glory years from Halo to Halo 3, same for Square, Eidos, Naughty Dog, RARE, and various other studios. It's a different landscape now and it seems the media runs with it as it gets hits and causes speculation. There was an exodus here or there of a CEO or a big name dev, but now we are privy to all the nuts and bolts devs that leave.

butthurt lems hoping ND will close his doors.

keep praying lems not going to happen!

we will enjoy the GOTY TLOU remastered in full 1080p 60fps and the next GOTY Uncharted, i hope Rare will save you LOL!

almost 30 people left the witcher studio where is the press ? oh wait there is noone only the gods in this industry have the biggest press

Actually, that's not true at all. It's quite common practice for development companies to get rid of a chunk of staff of all experience and skill levels after any given project, and rehire new staff completely.

I think people should really read up on how contracts work.

but this is so much better!

lo If I'm honest I fully agree, SW runs on arguments :P. Would be boring or else.

It would seem the title of theit last game "The Last of Us", seems quite relevant these days.

OMG, a character artist leaves? How will ND ever make another game?!? </sarcasm>

They literally cannot rehire anyone else.

When you make consistent top 5 GOAT, sometimes the pressure is too much for people to handle. We in the SONY family wish Michael well on his future endeavors.

@MonsieurX said:

@speedfreak48t5p said:

It would seem the title of theit last game "The Last of Us", seems quite relevant these days.

So, who's up for a new Ensemble game? Anyone?