Erick Pangilinan has been a core member of the Naughty dog art team since 1997. Having joined at the beginning of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back as a Senior Artist, he worked on every Naughty Dog game from then on. For more than a decade, Erick has helmed the art department as Art Director, filling that role on Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, The Last of Us, Left Behind, and The Last of Us Part II. Throughout his career, Erick has focused on overall visual design, managing the art production, pushing the aesthetic quality of the game, and integrating external development teams into the pipeline.