Toby Gard is a computer game character designer and consultant. His biggest breakthrough in the video game industry was when he created Lara Croft for Core Design's Tomb Raider. Gard left Core Design during the development of Tomb Raider II, because he was opposed to the idea and marketing of Lara's sex appeal, and felt he had little creative control over the game as he originally had. Later he developed a XBox game Galleon at a company called Confounding Factor. After finishing Galleon, Gard was hired by Eidos(the current copyright holders on the Tomb Raider series) along with Crystal Dynamics to work on Tomb Raider: Legend. For the first time in nine years Gard is once again involved with the Tomb Raider series. Ever since then Gard was given advisor/consultant position on the recent Tomb Raider Games.