Making if is great...lol, they even talked a bit about the Giraffe scene
Highlights (i can remember):
- as Laa-Yosh mentioned, they did build up Ellie as an action hero...the explicitly mentioned Ellie's origin. So Ellie in a sequel?
- they reserve like 4-5 megs memory for all(!!) animations, including of course Ellie, Joel but also NPCs...crazy! So next gen, suppose a linear scaling, they can reserve about 16 times as much memory for animations, 64-80 megs...holy shit, can't wait!
- sound design and music score is fantastic, just bought Ronroco from Gustavo Santaolalla.
- saw the 'real' actors the first time...interesting to see how they did all the capturing, especially one of the key scenes, where Sahra died in Joel's arms...shows how much a director needs to push to prevent actors from dramatic over-acting. Hats off to Neil Druckman...
- very cool that the Ellie actress helped to form Ellie's character, especially that after she complaint, they changed some fighting scenes and made Ellie more actively helping.
- for me personally, it is always astounding how many artists contribute to such a piece of beauty, how many different artists there are, e.g. Lighting artist.
Cool!