THE ART OF THE LAST OF US PART II
THE LAST OF US PART II WORKSHOP
Turn to page 74 to see how Balázs Ágoston created concept art for the game
“How to find the juice? That’s much more ambiguous,” teases art director Shaddy Safadi as he narrows his eyes and rubs his fingers across his thumbs. What’s this mysterious ‘juice’? It’s that special something that raises concept art up a notch, and in The Last Of Us Part II became important to depicting the game’s “beautiful decay”.
Shaddy is art director of his own studio, One Pixel Brush, but spent more than a decade working at Naughty Dog on the PlayStation title Jak 3 before moving on to the multi-million-selling Uncharted series, and the original The Last Of Us. For its sequel, Shaddy’s team of “superstar artists” were recruited to
