Unit Pictures

[DefilerRulez]

So the icons of Arcade comes from here... We still have to fine the entire artworks of protoss

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So the icons of Arcade comes from here... We still have to fine the entire artworks of protoss

[DefilerRulez]

Where did you find that mr jack's art?

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Where did you find that mr jack's art?

[Robear]

He was added to [Sons of the Storm](http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/gallery.php?artist=mrjack) a day or two ago— I think this is the Protoss one you're looking for:



A couple of things about the proportions are funny— the Ultralisk's head, particularly, but, there is information to be analyzed:
The corruptors are an interesting aspect of it. The corruptor in the top left is closer to the viewer than the end of the ultralisk's frill, and definitely closer than the ultralisk in the background on the left edge, so that gives us a pretty good indication that, you know, corruptors, much smaller than ultralisks, more in line with mutalisks.
On the other hand, the interceptors in the background are tiny compared to the devourers they are attacking. But, they are not particularly big compared to the scouts, so perhaps this just means interceptors are tiny.
On the other other hand, the size-relationship between the scouts and carriers seems kind of like their in-game size difference, so maybe that background part of the picture was more drawn to look cool than to actually show sizes. Probably.

Anyway, the reason I posted the Terran one first was that it got me excited to work on the Odin, which I'll try to do in the next couple days. I'm thinking it'll be this big (the black scribble):

[DefilerRulez]

This art is for icons of arcade, not for the sizes, we will see a carrion swarm host? It have different locust eggs and it also auto spawn creep

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This art is for icons of arcade, not for the sizes, we will see a carrion swarm host? It have different locust eggs and it also auto spawn creep

[Nolanstar]

he probably will do the flying locust, but not the strain that spawns them

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he probably will do the flying locust, but not the strain that spawns them

[DefilerRulez]

I did a mistake, not the carrion but the creeper

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I did a mistake, not the carrion but the creeper

[Visions of Khas]

I really don't know how much stock you can put in Mr Jack's illustrations. They are heavily stylized and are meant for show more than determining realistic units, in my opinion.

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I really don't know how much stock you can put in Mr Jack's illustrations. They are heavily stylized and are meant for show more than determining realistic units, in my opinion.

[Robear]

Yeah, Nolanstar's right, I might do flying locusts but don't plan on doing any of the other Zerg variations just because there are so many (those mini roaches and banelings, the 4-winged mutas, the different-colored and spikier versions of everything else...)

While I agree with you about 80%, VoK, these particular Mr. Jack pictures are still pretty important, imo, for a couple of reasons:

-This is literally the only Blizzard-authored artwork which shows Brood Lords and Overseers alongside any other units, at all. The only one!

So, the scaling is all off, but this picture is literally the only source to go on for those units— before I had none. It also shows a Raven, and, even though you can't tell much from it, it's literally the only Raven artwork in existence, afaik.

Same goes for that Zerg picture and corruptors, the only picture which compares corruptors to any other unit.

They also show Brood War units alongside SC2 units, which is pretty cool. Like, in those excerpts above, there are guardians and brood lords together, there are wraiths and valkyries flying in the background... And of course the Protoss/Zerg one has devourers and corruptors together, and an arbiter. So, that's nice, even if it's not new information.


Here's what the new format for the ground units chart will be like— 3 of these in a column.


It's too bad that you won't be able to compare the heights of units across races quite as easily, but it'll be so much more manageable as an image if it isn't 50 times as wide as it is tall. Right now the Protoss chart looks pretty sparse, as they have a lot fewer units than the others, but hopefully LotV will flesh it out a bit more.

[TheEconomist]

Wow, never knew Collosi were so big ....... or Nexi were so small.

[Robear]

I mean, I've had them at about that size since May— BUT, I fully expect all of the Protoss sizes to change just as much from LotV as everything else did between the WoL and HotS version of the chart (which was a lot). I hope they won't pass up the opportunity to show a colossus in a cinematic, since it'd be so, so cool. So, don't worry, we'll see next year.