With the imminent arrival of HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation, fans have taken to reimagining Part 2’s video game version of Ellie as Bella Ramsey.
Ramsey, who stars as Ellie alongside Pedro Pascal’s Joel and Anna Torv’s Tess in the upcoming show, previously stated she believes Ellie is a “character [she] already had in [her]”.
“Like the skins that you wear in a video game? She was one of my skins already,” Ramsey explained. Now, thanks to modders, she is indeed a skin in a video game.
This The Last of Us mod comes from Alejandro Bielsa (aka Vontadeh). Bielsa, who is currently working on Playground Games’ Fable as a character technical artist, explained they were able to “modify the ‘neutral’ shape of Ellie’s face to a sculpt [they] did of Bella’s likeness.”
They do note that the mod isn’t quite perfect, stating as they “can’t modify the different expressions [Ellie] makes” in the game, “Ellie’s [original] likeness seeps through when she’s emoting”.
As such, Bielsa stated the mod in its current form works “best when her performance is a bit more nuanced and close to her neutral pose, or when she’s angry or screaming as it disguises the issues around the model’s lips”.