Badass Model!!

I recently got an email from Bruno Camara saying that he modeled my Viking Thrall Character design from Tomb Raider Underworld and man was I blown away! I love it! Just had to share because it is such a pleasure to see the design translated with the attention to style and design that I had in mind from the start. This guy is a bad ass and did a bad ass job! This is an old design from a while ago but still, I want to see him model some of my newer designs! All design copyright Crystal Dynamics/Eidos the models were done as fan art.

Arctic Sea

Underwater, quick paintings for TRU. I'm playin this part in the game and remembered that I did these pieces so I was inspired to post em.

Underworld Character designs

Alright, the last entry of '08 Some Tomb Raider Character Designs. Hope y'all dig em! Hopefully '09 will bring new and improved... everything! The top left one is an early concept of what the Doppleganger was going to look like. and the other is Alister.

Couple Characters For Underworld

These characters were done in pre-production for Tomb Raider Underworld. I did the Lara Design based on what we already had because they weren't sure if they wanted the costume to change that much, so it was really more of an illustration of her at that point. And the second design is for senator Rutland, I think he later got cut from the game but this is my design for him, I kind of liked the way his expression turned out. I have a lot more stuff from that project that I will be uploading and hopefully interspersing between other posts so as to not be too redundant.

Early Development for Tomb Raider Underworld

Both of these pieces are early development sketches. The top one I was just trying to show the scale of the Kraken by having Giant tentacles with smaller and medium sized tentacles on them that from a distance maybe looked like hair or something and group them to look like a shape. The bottom piece was done for the Kraken Area before anyone knew what we wanted to do. It was kind of fun to explore different ideas that could possibly translate over. I wanted Lara walking toward the castle to be the first read and seeing the Kraken on top and surrounding it to be second and third. I thought it would be cool to hide the tentacles in the environment so you didn't notice at first that she just walked past a giant Kraken tentacle, this things taking up the entire cave!

Here are some images from Tomb Raider Underworld, which is available now in stores. I Worked on most of the characters and handled a lot of the underground areas. I will post more as the days progress cause it's too much to do all at once so keep checking back for updates! And leave some comments lurkers geez.