Unit Pictures

[Robear]

You should update the poster with these new unit sizes. I want to see a Colossus next to an Ultralisk and a Thor to see if it fits appropriately.

Don't worry, I will soon! As soon as I have the hellbat, locust, oracle, mothership core and pylon in there, the ground units' scales will be finished, and I'll release it on its own in another giant-resolution update. Hopefully in about a week.

If a Gorgon is twice as big as a Minataur class, then it's the same size as a Mothership, but still not much bigger then a Behemoth class. That might need to be looked at, personally.

Nah, I don't think you have to worry about it. If you look at the old chart, twice as big as the minotaur is still much smaller than the mothership. And the hyperion won't be as big as that Behemoth is, there'll be note on there that the old behemoth size was retconned out of existence. Plus the gorgon is like a long, skinny rectangle, while the mothership's a giant circle. I might make the mothership bigger, I might not, since I was always guessing on that one anyway.

There is a picture of Locusts compared to Swarm Hosts on the website. So I think your assumption is close.

Ah, right. I always forget about those because they look so unlike the locust portrait. Good!

You're almost there! Don't let LotV beat you to your goal, and make you take even longer! (Also, I'd find it funny if you did Scarabs :P)

Oh, don't you worry. Heh, I could do a Scarab. It wouldn't be very interesting, but, sure. :P

[topsecret221]

Well, I just put it up on the interwebs: http://imgur.com/a/M05Ts#0

Thought that this thread would appreciate it a little bit.

[Robear]

Hoooollllyyyyy crap dude. Hahaha, that's so amazing, hah, can't wait for you to finish that minotaur. The BW ultra looks great, too. I can't even imagine doing all of those. Oh man. It's really cool to see my Nexus design in 3D.


Here's that scarab you requested, Demolij!



(I was assuming it was facing the left when I was drawing it, but it might actually look better the other way around, heh.)

And a reallly sketchy locust, but, no one will ever see it at this resolution.



Units to go before the ground portion is done:

-Mothership Core
-Hellbat
-Oracle
-Pylon

[topsecret221]

Hoooollllyyyyy crap dude. Hahaha, that's so amazing, hah, can't wait for you to finish that minotaur. The BW ultra looks great, too. I can't even imagine doing all of those. Oh man. It's really cool to see my Nexus design in 3D.

Sexy scarab! What'd you use for reference?

[Robear]

Sexy scarab! What'd you use for reference?

You know how in SC1 when the scarab got stuck for a bit, sometimes the glow would disappear and the actual thing would be visible for a frame or two? Well, I kind of just made something up based on my memory of that, and the tiny scarab icon from the game.
(I know the wiki has a picture of a removed SC2 scarab, but I don't really like it or the SC2 reaver, so I ignored it.)



It's not accurate to anything Blizzard actually made, but that's ok; I've made up details before. And it's tiny on the chart anyway, less than a square meter.


Here's a fun look at how the hellbat's going: here are all of the hellion's parts that get visibly preserved just cut out and rotated from my hellion picture. That way the size of parts like the wheels will be consistant between the two.
It's actually a pretty plausible transformation, except for the giant arms and legs and shields that magically appear out of nowhere. I'll draw those separately and then just add them in. This thing's going to be pretty tall.



Edit: And, here it is finished:



It comes out to being bigger than an SCV, smaller than a siege tank, which is pretty good! I had been afraid that it would be as big as a warhound.

[Robear]

The oracle and pylon are in. Oracle turned out really cool, pylon turned out okay.



I'm happy with the oracle's size (I'm imagining the pilot sits beneath/inside the big crystal on the front, so it has to be this big). Pylon I'm not sure, it might be too big, it might be just right. Feedback? I'm hoping to release the big updated image on Wednesday, and then not change the little units' sizes after that.


(ignore the weird image artifacts, missing units)



These are the only pylon size references I know of, and both are very imprecise. I don't really want the pylon to be much smaller than the warp prism, though.

[topsecret221]

I don't think it's bad that the pylon is much smaller than the warp prism. On the contrary, it should be. The important thing is that the crystal should be larger than the WP's crystal. If you saw the size of my pylon, it was very small (the crystal was the same size as on the nexus). Honstly, it should be larger than the warp prism crystal, and about the same size as the nexus (slightly larger or slightly smaller). Remember that the nexus cystal powers that whole building. A pylon does not (and should not be much larger). I think a little bit larger than the brood war ultralisk is the absolute largest it should be.

[Visions of Khas]

I think the Pylon is way too big. I remember a wallpaper showing Zeratul running across some frozen Colossi with Pylons dotting the landscape, and they were about three Zeratuls high.

[Robear]

Ah, right, this one



Though Peter Lee's art isn't always the best source for scale, yeah, you're both absolutely right, they're meant to be smaller. I wish there were just some Ghost screenshot of someone directly next to one, but, if it exists, I haven't found it yet. Here are some with a gateway in the background... But again, it doesn't tell us much. We'll just have to wait for Legacy of the Void for accuracy. :P




Anyway, here's the updated version, much smaller, around 30 feet, ~3 times the height of a Zealot.



The SC2 Ultralisks should take them out in a single hit. :P

[topsecret221]

Much better! That looks spot on

The SC2 Ultralisks should take them out in a single hit. :P

SC2 Ultralisks should take out a lot of things in a single hit :P