Stellar Blade Dev Says It Hopes Everyone Is 'Living in Love' After Naughty Dog Artist's Interpretation of Eve Is Unfairly Criticised | Push Square

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Naughty Dog has, for some reason, become an enemy of the Internet – or at least a vocal contingent of social media users. Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet has been attacked unprecedently, despite us knowing very little about the project.

And now Stellar Blade developer Shift Up has had to speak out in support of Hyoung Taek Nam, a character artist who’s worked on the likes of The Last of Us, after some outspoken individuals took issue with his interpretation of Eve.

It all started when the Korean studio sent out the following fairly awesome piece of artwork:

While not all the comments were bad, others criticised the style used. “Never let Naughty Dog make art based on your work ever again,” one post exclaimed.

This was one of two illustrations by Hyoung Taek Nam, and Shift Up subsequently posted the second with a statement:

“Artist Hyoung Taek Nam has once again drawn Eve for us. We’re very grateful for this, but we always welcome fan art in the style of the previous one. It’s not uncommon for fan art to have more of the artist’s style than the original, and we think that's a very important and enjoyable point. It’s been a rough year in 2024, not just in Korea, but around the world. We hope everyone is living in love.”

It’s really good to see Shift Up make this statement, and we know it’s a huge admirer of Naughty Dog’s work; director Kim Hyung Tae and his team took a tour of the Californian studio during a recent trip to the US earlier this month, so there’s lots of mutual respect between the two teams.

And why wouldn’t there be? These are two studios making amazing PS5 games, so the more they can learn from each other the better in our opinion.

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