In Season 1, a towering 6’6” stuntman donned a slimy, 80-pound suit to play the bloater, only for his performance to be ...

The badass Bloater returns as a monstrous thing of organic beauty, and "The Last of Us" VFX supervisors tell ... As for the Bloater (which starts with mo-cap), art director Gino Acevedo started ...

Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal in "The Last of Us." Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO It's pretty hard to upstage the fungal colossus that is a Bloater, but in episode 5 of The Last of Us, one pint ...

Tommy’s one-on-one fight against the Bloater is the kind of fist-pumping, high-octane fight scene that keeps us tuning into The Last of Us. It’s that glimmer of hope that maybe all the ...

What does a bloater look like when he’s being burned? We went through many, many phases of different animations, starting with slow and then medium-fast.” Wang used “The Last of Us Part II ...

So much for Jackson, Wyoming being a safe haven in “The Last of Us” Season 2. In Episode 2’s surprise ... and fully simulated hair and clothing. As for the Bloater (which starts with mo-cap), art ...

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” now streaming on Max. The bloater is back and better than ever! The biggest and baddest ...