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The Last of Us Part II

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t7 234 O 4.4K Jonathan Cooper O Follow Jonathan Cooper @GameAnim · Mar 12 @GameAnim Don't get me wrong, these kids are mostly awesome and the best were great. It's just when the junior/senior ratio is out of balance things can really grind and When I left Naughty Dog late last year they threatened to withhold my final paycheck until I signed additional paperwork stating I wouldn't share their production practices. They finally relented when I assured them that was most likely illegal... more time is spent training than actually working. (LA teams, make sure and pick them up when all the contracts end.) О з t7 192 4.1K Jonathan Cooper @GameAnim · Mar 12 Contract work is a huge part of the LA ecosystem to ship large games. Unlike game design, there is a thriving animation industry here and seasoned animators can (often) choose their projects. Most of the contract story animators quit last year. t7 179 O 3.6K 1:24 PM - 12 Mar 2020 Jonathan Cooper @GameAnim · Mar 12 6,637 Retweets 31,063 Likes Those that don't can be at ND for 2-3 projects (with pauses inbetwen) and, while paid overtime, never receive benefits or the security of a full-time gig. This is the way the industry is moving so workers need more protection rather than the O 310 tI 6.6K O 31K carot of a fulltime job "one day". Jonathan Cooper O @GameAnim · Mar 12 t7 207 O 3.5K The truth is I have no awful crunch tale. The "story animators" as we were known Jonathan CooperO @GameAnim · Mar 12 were averaging 46hrs a week when I left and I personally never went over 55. The There are ND stories worse than this but like everything on my twitter I'm story team is super organised and we reacted to whatever was thrown at us. That's not to say others weren't suffering. focusing on animation. For TLOU2 fans, the game should turn out great with industry-leading animation. I would just not recommend anyone work at Naughty Dog until they prioritise talent-retention. Q 22 t7 307 O 6.1K Jonathan Cooper @GameAnim · Mar 12 t7 281 O 4.2K For the demo shown last September, the gameplay animators crunched more Jonathan Cooper O @GameAnim · Mar 12 than I've ever seen and required weeks of recovery afterwards. One good friend Ultimately, ND's linear games have a formula and they focus-test the s--- out of of mine was hospitalised at that time due to overwork. He still had over half a them. While talented, their success is due in large part to Sony's deep pockets year to go. There have been others since. funding delays rather than skill alone. A more senior team would have shipped t7 559 O 6.1K TLOU2 a year ago. O 140 t7 689 ♡ 6.5K Jonathan Cooper O @GameAnim · Mar 12 The reason I left is because I only want to work with the best. That is no longer Naughty Dog. Their reputation for crunch within LA is so bad it was near . @TitanMainD2 · Mar 12 impossible to hire seasoned contract game animators to close out the project. As Replying to @GameAnim such we loaded up on film animators. @Naughty_Dog @Neil_Druckmann so ashamed of you guys. I wanna boycott the game but it's not fair to all the hard work the incredible talent has put in. I'm so conflicted. ♡ 29 t7 720 O 6.6K Jonathan Cooper @GameAnim · Mar 12 O 13 O 236 While super-talented, they lacked the technical/design knowhow to assemble scenes. Similarly., the design team ballooned with juniors to make up for the Endless Trash @DanganRumple · Mar 12 attrition of key roles. Every aspect of finishing this game took much longer due Naw, ditch it. to the lack of game experience on the team. t7 234 O 4.4K Yet there are also those developers, some of whom still work at Naughty Deg todauwho say that there'ea nart of thom that
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