Uncharted 4 character faces contains 500 bones

The Last of Us for the PS3 (and later PS4) was a beautiful, wonderful game. Naughty Dog lead designers Josh Scherr and Ricky Cambier recently spoke to Games™ about how much further the team has taken their facial animation and reaction system for the upcoming fourth installment in the Uncharted-series. Apparently the faces in Uncharted 4 now contains over 500 different bones to maximise the amount of detail the reactions will have during cut scenes.

"We've completely revamped our facial animation systems. The previous Uncharted games, and in The Last Of Us, the characters all had about 90 to 100 bones in their faces which we used to moved the meshes around. Think about that, about how detailed Joel and Ellie's pained facial expressions were, how well the game captured the respective actors - Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson - seminal roles. All that was achieved on the old tech. Now, the faces have anywhere between 300 and 500 bones."

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End was recently delayed until spring 2016.