One click — and so much happiness for the fans.
The Tomb Raider series began in 1996 with the release of the first computer game, Tomb Raider. She talked about a girl archaeologist — Lara Croft. This is an action-adventure game with elements of a third-person shooter.
Toby Guard was an animator and designer working on the Lara Croft game. Initially, he collected the image of the tomb raider, focusing on Indiana Jones. The main character was supposed to be a man. But gradually Gard abandoned this idea.
First there was the image of a South American woman named Laura Cruz, but she had to be remade into an Englishwoman — the name was simply taken from the phone book to make it sound «British». Then we started working on the character model.
Her figure was created from just over 540 polygons, while now it takes more than 15,000 polygons to create an AAA-class game character.
And now — the hottest! Initially, the model of the main character of the series was not planned so buxom. Toby Guard always wanted to slightly exaggerate the features of Lara Croft’s figure, but the size of the chest was the result of the case.
While tweaking her figure, Gard accidentally tripled her bust size with one click! At 150%! He wanted to return everything back, but the whole development team liked his mistake — and they decided to leave these dimensions.
After the release of the game, the size of Lara Croft’s breasts was the cause of controversy for many years about the excessive sexualization of female characters in games.
Who would have thought that Toby Garda’s decision would have an impact on films and Angelina Jolie?
Yes, yes, during the filming of the film «Lara Croft: Tomb Raider» Angelina Jolie herself had to be improved!
“Come on, I don’t have such a flat figure. When I wear a tight T-shirt, I look completely different. So I didn’t have to completely change. You know, they just gave me a little upgrade.» “I have a chest size of 36C. Lara has 36D. And in the game she has a double D, so during the filming we filled my space a little bit … there.
