Josh Scherr is an American video game writer and designer best known for his work on the Uncharted series.
Education
Josh Scherr received his Master of Fine Arts in Animation from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1997.
Career
He worked on several films, including
Los Gringos (1999) and
Dinosaur (2000), before joining
Naughty Dog in 2001. He worked as the cinematics animation lead on the
Jak and Daxter series (2001–05), and also led the cinematics team for the first three
Uncharted 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
(2016) with Neil Druckmann, and (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;
the studio was shuttered in March 2024.
Works
Video games
|
Cinematic animator |
Lead cinematic animator |
| Lead cinematic animator |
| Lead cinematic animator |
| Additional cut-scene animator |
Co-writer, lead cinematic animator |
Co-writer, lead cinematic animator |
Lead cinematic animator |
Co-writer |
Co-writer |
| Narrative designer, additional writing |
Other
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| Short film |
| Film |
| Music video |
