Lara Croft, Tomb Raider

Hey, I've wanted to create my own take on Lara for a while and with the release of Tomb Raider Remastered, a future game in the works and potentially a new movie I thought it was time to make it so. So I went back and looked at Lara from those wonderful games that I grew up playing, but also had a look around at some newer versions of classic Lara that are floating about. Ones that caught my attention were the beautifully stylised Fortnite skins. Then some really cool Lara mods for Unchartered TLL which capture the original designs really well. But the one that interested me the most was the Lara Croft skin for COD. Its beautifully modelled and textured but there are a number of different design directions I would have taken if I was creating an updated design of this iconic character. So I used that COD skin as the base of this concept and changed up most of it to how I would like Lara to look if it was for a forthcoming game or movie. Check out my notes included in my images for those design decisions. For me this piece was all about keeping close to that classic original design but adding some modern elements into it. As mentioned in my images for Lara's likeness Ive chosen to use one of the classic OG Tomb Raider models: Rhona Mitra. Rhona was hugely popular as Lara back in the day.