The Last Of Us Part 2's Stuntwoman Spent Several Days Pretending To Die - Kotaku

The first time stuntwoman Amy Johnston worked with Naughty Dog, she performed motion capture for Nadine Ross in Uncharted 4 and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.

It made sense that Naughty Dog brought her into the fold again, this time to do crucial work on The Last of Us Part 2.

On film, she performed stunt work for Captain America: The Winter Soldier (as Black Widow), Iron Man 3, and Suicide Squad.

They showed her what had already been shot; several motion capture actors had already been working on the game for some time.

Johnston performed most of her motion capture work as Abby, although she also performed movements and stunt work for Ellie, Dina, Yara, Lev, and many NPCs, including some of the male characters such as the massive Seraphite who attacks Abby in the burning village, and the massive Bloater that attacks Ellie and Joel during the second flashback.

“There were a couple days when all I did was throw, because Ellie was throwing molotovs and bricks,” said Johnston.

“It’s very important that the characters have a certain feel when you press the control stick forward,” said Johnston.

The character who Johnston got to know the best was Abby.

“The first character I worked on was Abby,” said Johnston.

I was told that Abby was around 5'7; the animators were comparing Abby to Ellie, and they wanted to make sure that the motions when they interacted were appropriate.

When I asked Johnston if Naughty Dog gave her any biographical information that didn’t make it into the game, she said they didn’t.

Naughty Dog also didn’t divulge how Abby got so muscular, although Johnston had her own headcanon as to why: that her revenge drove her to be physically capable of what she wanted to accomplish.

Ellie had a serious torso injury, and Abby had lost weight and most of her muscle mass due to her imprisonment by the Rattlers.

Johnston performed movement for both Abby and Ellie in this sequence, and out of everything she did for the game, this is the work she is most proud of.

It needed to make sense that Abby was winning here, and Ellie was winning there.

Because typically, you’d think that Abby would just defeat Ellie very quickly, if she wasn’t so skinny and weak.”.

Johnston will feature in several high-profile games coming out this year, including Marvel’s Avengers, for which she performed motion capture and stunt work for female characters?

But her eight months on The Last of Us Part 2 is the most work she’s ever done on a single video game title.

“A lot of times, game [developers] won’t know what they want

I haven’t played the game yet, but now I know that character dies BEFORE I clicked on the article and went past “spoiler warnings”