Nate Wells, who was the lead artist on The Last of Us, has left Naughty Dog for Giant Sparrow where he works as an art director.
Before working on The Last of Us with Naughty Dog, he worked as an art director at (now former) Irrational Games. He moved from Irrational Games to Naughty Dog in 2012.
During his career, he worked on shipping titles such as: Thief: The Dark Project, Thief II: The Metal Age, System Shock 2 and BioShock.
Sad day. But just to get this out of the way, he was in-studio for only 2 years during mid TLOU development, so he really didn't impacted team development extensively.
I'm sure he's talented, but again, this won't affect Naughty Dog in the slightest.
@MonsieurX So Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Giant Sparrow, the small-team Sony-owned "indie" studio inside Sony Santa Monica? And how is that a bad thing for Sony fanboys exactly?
Nate Wells, who was the lead artist on The Last of Us, has left Naughty Dog for Giant Sparrow where he works as an art director.
Before working on The Last of Us with Naughty Dog, he worked as an art director at (now former) Irrational Games. He moved from Irrational Games to Naughty Dog in 2012.
During his career, he worked on shipping titles such as: Thief: The Dark Project, Thief II: The Metal Age, System Shock 2 and BioShock.
Wow, he was barely at Naughty Dog (a little over a year, he left Irrational in Aug 2012). Nate Wells was with Irrational for a long time, since 1999's System Shock 2!
He's going to work for the tiny new team called Giant Sparrow, the team who gave the Playstation "The Unfinished Swan", possibly making some sort of indie game on PS4, Vita, or PS3 (Edith Finch)? Some people want to be involved in smaller scale projects, that's no secret. They have one PS3 game under their belt, so I'd imagine it's pretty exciting to be apart of a new studio at the ground floor. They have a bird theme going on with their name, their only game so far (Swan), and their upcoming game, Edith Finch.
Here's a picture from Sparrow's Website showing how small this Santa Monica team are. They were searching for an Art Director last month, so it all worked out.
News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.
Lems, tell me more about Giant Sparrow. What unscrupulous company stole this pantheon of all things good and Sony away from Sony? Is Giant Sparrow like a league of super villains?
Hm. He worked on some cool games actually. I think, given his past, he'll find a job soon enough (or at least I hope so) but it's kinda odd he only stayed 2 years at ND....
No, it wasn't even two years as he joined ND August 2012 after working with Irrational for over a decade.
It sucks that he left Naughty Dog after doing such a fantastic job on The Last of Us but at least he's heading to "Giant Sparrow", the developers behind The Unfinished Swan. Thought that game was great. Looking forward to what he does next.
Sad day. But just to get this out of the way, he was in-studio for only 2 years during mid TLOU development, so he really didn't impacted team development extensively.
I'm sure he's talented, but again, this won't affect Naughty Dog in the slightest.
News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.
News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.
Sad day. But just to get this out of the way, he was in-studio for only 2 years during mid TLOU development, so he really didn't impacted team development extensively.
I'm sure he's talented, but again, this won't affect Naughty Dog in the slightest.
I agree, but I would like to add he was only at ND closer to a year and a half than two years (joined late 2012 in August), so even less impactful than a full two years would have been! Contrast to Irrational Games where Nate was there for over a decade since before 1999's System Shock. :P
News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.
News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.
indiestation 4 confirmed!
>Indie
>Owned by Sony
I don't think they own them anyway. Sony signed them for a 3 game deal - (one game is already out)
Actually a little concerned about this, why the hell is naughty dog news seemingly popping up so frequently, and not in a good way. Maybe differences in direction.
Sad day. But just to get this out of the way, he was in-studio for only 2 years during mid TLOU development, so he really didn't impacted team development extensively.
I'm sure he's talented, but again, this won't affect Naughty Dog in the slightest.
I agree, but I would like to add he was only at ND closer to a year and a half than two years (joined late 2012 in August), so even less impactful than a full two years would have been! Contrast to Irrational Games where Nate was there for over a decade since before 1999's System Shock. :P
Sad day. But just to get this out of the way, he was in-studio for only 2 years during mid TLOU development, so he really didn't impacted team development extensively.
I'm sure he's talented, but again, this won't affect Naughty Dog in the slightest.
I agree, but I would like to add he was only at ND closer to a year and a half than two years (joined late 2012 in August), so even less impactful than a full two years would have been! Contrast to Irrational Games where Nate was there for over a decade since before 1999's System Shock. :P
News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.
Was just about to say this, but didn't so MonsieurX could own himself...which he did.
News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.
Was just about to say this, but didn't so MonsieurX could own himself...which he did.
just tell him that pc hasnt won GOTY since 2004. That would surely russell his jimmies ;)
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