Croft escapes certain death – at first – by clinging onto the wing of the airplane. But it soon starts to crumble and she must make a running leap onto the fuselage. Vikander and stunt performers carried out a jump on the set-piece, but it was soon determined that the shot needed some further CG enhancement. “The falling of the wing wasn’t quite what they wanted,” says Crew. “Also, for the jump, she was in a harness so they couldn’t quite get exactly the motion they wanted, so we ended up re-animating the wing falling and also re-animating Lara – the last half of that shot is really a CG take-over, of the legs specifically. We tried to incorporate the plate for the upper half of her body as much as we could, but some of that is CG as well.”

One of Scanline’s big challenges was animating the falling wing in a naturalistic way. “The effects guys did a great job of having pieces of the wing fall and start tearing as it’s falling against the rock and away from the actual fuselage,” states Crew. “Getting that feeling of Lara as if she’s in this completely digital environment with the digital plane and waterfall in the river above and the footage was really quite tricky. It was very handy having the reference photography that they did shoot at Karkloof in doing that.”