Uncharted brunette has more fun as blonde

by Jedwin Celestino { Sep 5th 2007 at 2:00PM }

Elena Fisher, from Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, may look like your average Sara plain and tall, but she's got a wild side too. How do we know? Well, it seems as if she's up and gone on a shopping spree at the local hair salon and neighboring plastic surgeon! Just a little bit of bleaching and a little bit of chin work, and voila! The makeover is complete, and just in time too. Her friends at Naughty Dog say that they "just preferred her blonde". Hopefully she can handle all the blonde jokes that come with the territory.

[via Joystiq]

Tags: naughtydog, uncharted

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tru-blue @ Sep 5th 2007 2:12PM

Blondes...they know a lot about "US Americans" and "places like such as" and "the Iraq" and South Africa and why "US Americans" don't have maps. ha ha.

gibson335 @ Sep 5th 2007 2:12PM

Hmm...she reminds me a bit of Jewel, now.

Metoo @ Sep 5th 2007 2:16PM

From Jennifer Connelly to Jewel. I didn't like her face graphics in the early trailers; her face looked unfinished. It looks much more detailed now. That would make sense considering the game's not done yet.

apease @ Sep 5th 2007 2:28PM

But does this mean we'll have more fun? ;)

nihillasohen @ Sep 5th 2007 2:35PM

Her face looked too generic in the beginning, but now I say thumbs up! She doesn’t have to be blonde, but it helps that they filled in her features.

borgman1 @ Sep 5th 2007 3:05PM

I agree with nih, making her blonde didn't make her look better. They just rendered her better in the second pic. She would have looked just as complete in the second pic as a brunette.

ClarkyCat @ Sep 5th 2007 3:14PM

Looking at the version on the left, I was wondering if this would be the first videogame heroine that would travel from place to place on the short bus... Thankfully she looks a bit "better" now!

upz @ Sep 5th 2007 3:15PM

Yeah, I remember noticing this on the last trailer on the PSN. Pretty crazy. What's even funnier is that PS3FB once posted a series of screens for Uncharted that showed an even earlier version of the character that looked like Randy Jackson with a bowl haircut. Considering that all that's changed on Drake since the initial concepts is the color of his shirt, Naughty Dog sure can't make up their minds on this girl.

upz @ Sep 5th 2007 3:28PM

Can't find the really old ones, but here's one from a while back: http://www.3dtotal.com/team/interviews/Richard_diamat/images/elena-render.jpg

Yikes.

doug @ Sep 5th 2007 3:51PM

is it bad i kind of like the linked one

doug @ Sep 5th 2007 3:52PM

has some anger in the face

KillarClown @ Sep 5th 2007 4:14PM

*fap fap fap*

chris.westermann @ Sep 5th 2007 4:54PM

Now if they can only work on her acting skills, or lack thereof.

upz @ Sep 5th 2007 4:54PM

Randy Jackson should be Randy Johnson. And Doug, you haven't seen the bad ones yet.

shase @ Sep 5th 2007 5:10PM

She does look better... maybe just the facial expression... before she looking really ugly...

Andy @ Sep 5th 2007 5:18PM

I think the first one is more believable for this kind of adventure. Your not gonna find too many blondes treasure hunting.

Ron(ald) @ Sep 5th 2007 5:35PM

Holy crap, she got hot. I like the details they added to her face and what-not, and now she looks like she's gotten to Nathan's level of detail.

PS!CHO @ Sep 5th 2007 8:27PM

Wow, she suddenly turned hot! And she seems to look more detailed now...

ryano @ Sep 5th 2007 8:36PM

She's A Man, Baby!!!

sam-evans @ Sep 6th 2007 12:06AM

The change was made quite a while back...
No one notice the change in the e3 trailer and pre e3?

Popfrogs @ Sep 6th 2007 8:47AM

I'm thinking one of the graphic artists got a new girlfriend and this is modeled after her. Believe it or not, those guys do stuff like that all the time. The founder of Hansen Robotics modeled his first realistic robot face after his girlfriend.