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Published: 2015-11-29 23:42:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 108383; Favourites: 515; Downloads: 4869
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The 'official,' authoritative version, featuring all the units at their Blizzard-approved sizes from Insight Editions' StarCraft Field Manual!(It also features the few multiplayer units that were omitted from the book, so it's like 98% official. We never discussed an official size for the Liberator while working on the book, for example, because it hadn't been created yet.)
Downloading the full size, 5200x9325 image is necessary!
If you are interested, here is a short interview Blizzard did with me about the charts and my involvement with StarCraft art in general. These images were also on display at BlizzCon 2015, which was an honor.
The version in the book itself had the formatting and a bit of color correction done by Insight Editions. As you can see from all the different units' shapes and the fact that each race's units take up a different amount of space, formatting this for book pages is quite tricky. Here you can zoom in and get a much better look at the artwork, and there's a lot less empty space than some of my early online versions. And you can see that the art is much more polished than in previous versions. I hope you all enjoy!
(If you are wondering, "What happened to all of the extra units from the single player campaigns, or the retro Brood War designs? I remember there being more," I'm splitting the chart up into two versions. This one has the Blizzard-official sizes and much more polished artwork from the Field Manual, but I still plan to have another version with all the hero units like the Odin added in. It just won't be all Blizzard approved stuff.)
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why is it that starcraft unit size are scaled down in the game ?
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This might be the place to get an answer to a question that keeps me up at night.
Who has bigger boobs? Nova or Kerrigan?
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I have reference images of the unfinished Torrasque here for you:Β photos.app.goo.gl/CPHcMbksFgh1β¦
Images about 1/4 from the bottom of gallery <3Β
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Wow, what a beautyβ I would not have guess that size difference between the two, that definitely would have been more than a match for some of those primal pack leaders. Maybe I will get around to doing an ultralisk model one of these days... Thanks for thinking of me!
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The goal was to urgently prototype it so it could traverse cliff heights like the Protoss Colossus! Heroes of the Storm started and work on this experiment stopped
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The games gave me the impression the oracle was small.
When I saw the arkship, I was like: these protoss think big, then I saw its full version next to the Leviathan and was like: Goodness gracious! They really do think big.
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I am no expert by any mean... but I thought Motherships were the size of floating cities. Leviathans were the size of small moons, and the Arkships dwarfed them... I mean the Arc ship houses a synthetic sun how small is this sun? If it were to small wouldn't it not be able to maintain the fusion? Also Based on the HotS Cutscene when you see the BC crashing down it looked much much larger than 1KM
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Honestly the game and surrounding media is not 100% consistent, but I will stand by most of these sizes.
Leviathans definitely can't be moon-sized as in the HotS intro, as well as on planets like Zerus Kerrigan's Leviathan fits very comfortably in atmosphere, even below clouds. If any of the in-engine cutscene shots imply they are moon sized, I attribute it to their constant use a of forced perspective and weirdly-scaled things, never actually using full-sized planets for example because the draw distance and lighting / rendering setup for that kind of shot would be ridiculous. It also turns out the cinematic Leviathan model for that cutscene is actually a completely different shape than the one we see far more of in-game, in wallpapers, etc. I would have argued at the time I did that drawing that the front sections of the body looked so small because of perspective distortion from it being so crazy big, but it turns out that the cinematic model actually looks like this,Β i.imgur.com/URpJ92B.jpg, and Blizzard actually had it much smaller than I had guessed. Fortunately, the Zerg being Zerg, both of those Leviathan designs can easily coexist, as any one could grow a much larger abdomen section in order to carry more troops or Zerg buildings for a larger brood, so I can just explain away even pretty extreme variation with "all Zerg buildings and units can be grown in different sizes."
I do consider the Mothership floating city-sized. While mine is only around 6.2 square km in area, they also have many many stories, with the whole middle section being taller and wayyyyy thicker than the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. You can definitely fit a ton of Protoss in there. You'll also note that the Reclamation cutscene in LotV takes place above a mothership, this model , and it's already plenty big, but not bigger. Here's some detail where you can see windows/decks . In engine stuff is less reliable again, but nothing in LotV implies that Motherships are any more than like 3x larger than carriers .
(Then in the Covert Ops cutscenes there are some very very weirdly scaled in-engine cutscenes that make everything look tiny that I think you're just not supposed to think about. It also looks like to fake the atmospheric effect where things in the distance fade to the atmosphere's color, they just made forced-perspective scaled models slightly transparent, so you see the building through the mothership, but... At any rate those were made after this chart, so I wasn't thinking about them at the time.)
And then yeah the arkship does completely dwarf everything else. The Solar Core itself however you see in the game, and it's tiny, like under 200' tall. It's not actually star-sized. The power of Protoss technology!
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I'm wondering, does this mean that the Protoss Spear of Adun is the largest sci-fi space ship there is out there? (moonbases and similar platforms notwithstanding) I know it already dwarfs the Super Star Destroyer from Star Wars, and that thing was Huge!
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Crazily enough, it's not even close! The first one that comes to mind for me is the mothership from the first Independence Day, which was about 8 times longer, and much more substantial. The one that carries dozens of the city-sized alien ships.
(Then, while I didn't see it, they had a continent-sized ship in the Independence Day sequel... apparently 5000 km wide.Β Β )
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Oh wow! I forgot about the ID sequel, and I Saw it! Ok that one I guess is bigger than the Spear of Adun. I hadn't counted on the Mothership in the original movie to be bigger though. Ok Protoss, I know you lot can build bigger space crafts... get on it!
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How many pixels is 1 meter in the upper chunk of the scale?
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Slightly inconveniently, about ~36.5 pixels = 1 meter at this resolution, or 73px=2m.
That said, I wouldn't try to calculate the exact sizes of everything down to the centimeter using itβ if only because the margin of error of pencil drawings means proportions could vary slightly. Like if Blizzard decided to make a cinematic Thor model with the overall size based on this exact chart, I still definitely wouldn't expect its dimensions to match down to the meter.
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Considering we only see the foremost part of Spear of Adun... Yeah, that thing is huge
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I thought Archon was bigger, considering how an Archon was able to tackle an Ultralisk head on.
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I actually did this chart before that cinematic was released, but their archon is only a tiny bit bigger than mine. If you look at screenshots from when the ultra and archon are fighting, when the archon isn't floating it's nowhere near the ultralisk's head level:
i.imgur.com/IHAOWqP.jpg
i.imgur.com/Xy2C3Vp.jpg
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Nice, although I assumed Motherships are significantly bigger.
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Almost 4 to 5 time the BC, and you expect it to be even bigger ?
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Hmm. For me I like to imagine that the Minotaur should be 560m and the Behemoth should be around 1km, but Blizzard just had me draw and label the battlecruiser on the chart "battlecruiser" instead of having multiple drawings for different classes. I like to think of the one I drew as the Behemoth but it is ambiguous from the book.
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I had no idea ravens were so big! The thor looks tiny next to it!
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My main reasoning for that was that I figured the interior of the body should be able to contain a little automated factory for producing PDDs, auto-turrets and seeker missiles, and the resources to pump those out. Plus I like the idea of there being more ships in between the sizes of one-person fighters and massive capital ships. Blizzard OKd it, but I don't think they ever had a specific size in mind for it themselves.Β
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So did Blizzard give you the official sizes for the rest of the Terran and Protoss ships when you made scale chart and are you going to tell us what are their size?
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They were reluctant to give me exact numbers for the various ships for a few reasons, mainly 1), except in the case of the very few units that have high-detail cinematic models, they don't have them. Like when they came up with the design for an in-game unit like the Tempest they don't also plan a high detail realistic version with exact dimensions. But also 2), my drawings don't necessarily match the exact proportions of official designs anywayβ My battlecruiser drawing could easily have some parts that are thicker or thinner or shorter or taller than their cinematic model, there's a decent margin of error. And 3), they might not want to commit to any hard numbers, for two sub-reasons. One, if they decide to make an updated SC2 high-detail science vessel design that is flatter and more saucerlike or has more attached modules around the edges or anything, there's no reason it should be bound by some exact number of meters based on a sketch that I did based on the SC1 version. And two, the units are inconsistent between games and sometimes even within the same game.
So, rather the system was, I submitted my size estimates and in-progress versions of the chart, and got back feedback from the art director along the lines of "can we try making the science vessel 10% smaller," or, "the Oracle isn't on-model, here's a side view of the unit," and I would edit the proportions (if you look at my Starcraft to Scale: Protoss Chart (old) Β submission you can still see my original Oracle drawing. Much uglier!). And I did lots of wholly new drawings, like the Arbiter, based on the new unit model. While I did get a look at a small amount of LotV material like that long before it was made public, like views of the LotV Carrier and Spear of Adun models for the in-engine cutscenes, I didn't have any communication or connection with the pre rendered cinematic team, and didn't receive any exact figures or secret images of the cinematic models such as the Ultralisk or Viking, which would have been cool. It was a fairly hurried process; the opportunity was there for hands-on feedback on the individual images but there just wasn't time when my focus was just on meeting the publisher's deadline.
An example of inconsistencies, Void Rays fly alongside carriers in a couple of cutscenes, but one occasionally flies by inside the War Council, scaled extremely small so that it can fit inside. So even with these sizes 'established,' if it makes a shot look better any time in the future to have a unit be larger or smaller, I won't be surprised if that's what they go for. (Also I actually think they had me scale my drawing slightly larger than the void ray should be, but oh well).
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Yes, that approximate size was approved by Blizzard. But my drawing might not exactly match the proportions of their cinematic model, so it could also be a tiny bit bigger. It's definitely somewhere in between 955-1055m long.
(Then there's also the possibility that other battlecruiser classes could be significantly different sizes, but I didn't get any official answer on that.)
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The Spear of Adun is so massive, you could fit about a hundred human ships in there.
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It was built to ensure the survival of the Protoss in dire time ( Hence the name Arkship ). Of course it's much bigger than a BC, which is just an army flag ship built by human
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I am curious if there's new size scales for each of these groups (Terran, Protoss, Zerg, even Amon's forces like the hybrid) for I am wondering how big the primal zerg are to the others and along with others that we don't see here like the Brutalisks?
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It would definitely be fun to explore more units and do drawings for more of the heroes and hybrid. At times I've planned on doing another round, but for now career- and portfolio-wise it makes sense for me to demonstrate experience at other skills, like 3d animation or more original concept art, rather than doing more of the same side view drawings of SC stuff. Of course, this is still fun for me, so I'm not saying never, but I gotta do some other work first!
(Also, aside from the hybrid reaver, most of Amon's units never show up in cutscenes or anything, so I'd just be making up their sizes)
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Β This new version of your StarCraft to Scale art chart is really awesome and I like it. I love the unit designs and their size depictions.
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So, the illustration on there matches the Hyperion and its size (and all those other battlecruisers in SC2 cutscenes that use the same model).
I did do two separate illustrations of the Hyperion-style battlecruiser and the game model-style battlecruiser, and asked Blizzard if they wanted to include the two ships at different sizes on the chart, and to label them as different classes (Behemoth-class and Minotaur-class). But they only wanted one, just labeled "Battlecruiser," to match the earlier page in the Field Manual.
My personal vision is that the Minotaur class would be much smaller than the Hyperionβ here is a version of the capital ships section the way I imagine it. Β But this idea isn't official.
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oh!... Blizzard itseft! Β
and yeah all BC are way different Norad 3,Bucephalus, Hyperion, Jackson's revence, normal bc, Loki and the Gorgon
terrans have more variations that the portoss and the zerg together
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Hah, I also had some more of those variations drawn... Here's an old, completely non-canon image (from before I got any Blizzard feedback on anything), so disregard the sizes in it, but in it I have the SC:Ghost battlecruiser, the SC2 Hyperion, the SC1 battlecruiser, the SC2 minotaur battlecruiser, the Loki, and the Gorgon-class from Heart of the Swarm (which the Bucephalus is supposed to be, even though in the cutscenes it uses the same model as the Hyperion):Β i.imgur.com/Bx9mXOP.jpg
But like I said, some of the sizes in that are completely wrong, forget I posted it.
That said, Protoss and Zerg do have a fair number of variations too. Soo many Zerglings.
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well yeah Β but in models we got almost all terran unit with an elite version (even the nova structures are different xd) and the protoss now have the LOTV tal'darim xd
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