Official anniversary illustration

Tomb Raider: Two Eras of Lara Croft in Inna Vjuzhanina's United

A gold Scion joins classic and present-day Lara in a reversible anniversary illustration.

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Artwork: Inna Vjuzhanina · Anniversary illustration

Project: Tomb Raider 30th Anniversary: United

Production: Tomb Raider / Crystal Dynamics

Tomb Raider / Lara Croft © Crystal Dynamics group of companies. Artwork credited to its original artist.

Tomb Raider: official anniversary feature

Two versions of Lara Croft meet around a central gold Scion, with a painterly Lara above and an inverted polygonal Lara below, surrounded by ruins, waterfalls and a decorative border. — United: the complete reversible anniversary illustration by Inna Vjuzhanina.

About the work.

Turn the image upside down and the other Lara takes the lead. Inna Vjuzhanina's United places two incarnations of Lara Croft inside one ornate frame: a softly painted figure on one side and the angular shapes of classic Lara on the other. A gold Scion holds the centre while waterfalls and ruins connect the surrounding world.

Created for Tomb Raider's 30th anniversary, the commissioned illustration pairs Core Design's Lara with the Legacy of Atlantis version. In the official anniversary feature, Vjuzhanina explains that the brief gave both versions equal prominence. References around the frame connect the composition to locations from Lara's original adventure.

The shift in rendering is part of what makes the pairing so readable. Costume colours and paired pistols carry across both halves, while faces, hands and surrounding rock formations change their visual language. This gallery presents two complete original editions of the same illustration, including their different borders.