Tomb Raider: Crystal Dynamics takes you behind the scenes of debut trailer (Tomb Raider (2011))

Here’s a pretty lengthy behind-the-scenes clip for Turning Point, the debut trailer to Square Enix’s upcoming Tomb Raider reboot. Forgive the presumption, but one might assume you watch a fair few game trailers in your day-to-day life. How often do you find yourself thinking, not “this game looks like it will be good,” but “what a good trailer”? Hopefully not often – any film editor knows the ultimate goal of their work is to be invisible – but Crystal Dynamics was so happy with the work fellow Square Enix subsidiary Visual Works did on the clip, it’s put together a short to show you how it was done… …