PERSONAL PROJECT: Lara Croft re-design 21PAGES!
Personal project - a Lara Croft re-design for a game based in the 90s. I choose the 90's because it is the time when the IP was concepted and it would bring the cheese it needs! Please scroll from the bottom up to see my design process chronologically :) More on this project:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Vg365X
I love TR and I would love to hear what you think!
19 - Classic costume timeline with dirt and wounds.
18 - Underwater costume.
17 - Gear upgrade - things Lara would find along the way.
15 - The gear Lara would start an adventure with!
16 - I couldn't choose between a shotgun, machine gun and a rocket launcher so I drew all four!
14 - Just trying to do a better job of showing my design thinking process!
13 - Baseline Costume design
12 - Where would the Discman be?
11 - Some random back view ideas.
10 - Lara loves climbing! How would her rope and grapple look on her?
09 - narrowed it down to 4 options, each with a slightly different vibe. Here I decided to do a timeline design.
08 - Backpack sketches.
07 - Holsters sketches.
06 - Chose my favourite 4 ideas to take further
05 - And I sketched out all of the ideas.
04 - Base costume design with references.
03 - This is what I do when I have too many ideas. I plan :D
02 - It all clicked when I was randomly sketching Lara and the design just fell into place. I attached some refs quickly and looked through the official 90's bio to identify key words about the character and see what I can add.
01 - But it all really started when I randomly had the idea to do a Lara re-design for a game based in the 90s. I sketched some costume ideas, but it didn't quite click. A lot of ideas did get carried through though.
00 - Thought I'd start strong with a lineup of all of my designs. This page shows the costume timeline for an imaginary Tomb Raider current gen game.