Josh Scherr is an American video game writer and designer best known for his work on the ''

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'' series.

Career

Josh Scherr received his Master of Fine Arts in Animation from the

USC School of Cinematic Arts The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) houses seven academic divisions: Film & Television Production; Cinema & Media Studies; John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts; John Wells Division of Writing for Sc ...

in 1995. He worked on several films, including ''

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'' (1999) and ''

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'' (2000), before joining

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in 2001. He worked as the cinematics animation lead on the ''

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'' series (2001–05), and also led the cinematics team for the first three ''

'' games from 2007 to 2011. He supervised and co-wrote the ''Uncharted'' comic book, released from 2011 to 2012. He has been a staff writer for Naughty Dog since early 2014, co-writing '' Uncharted 4: A Thief's End'' (2016) with

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, and '' Uncharted: The Lost Legacy'' (2017) with Shaun Escayg. On July 15, 2022, Scherr announced his departure from Naughty Dog after 21 years with the company. In October 2022, he announced he had joined new studio Crop Circle Games as narrative director.

Works

Video games

Other

References

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