Post by Inferno Rodan on Aug 7, 2012 23:27:58 GMT -5
Honestly, this is as much for my benefit as any current members here, since I can just link to this instead of explaining it again when the issue inevitably comes up with a new member.
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The “theropod stance” is when a monster is bipedal and holds its body parallel to the ground. This horizontal biped stance isn’t exclusive to theropods, of course, but they by far hold the majority. When people create monsters with this stance, they sometimes have trouble putting them into proper scale with other, existing monsters. For this study I’ll of course be using the 100-meter scale popularized by the 90's Heisei Godzilla movies, since that’s what’s used here at the UCA. But the information can be applied regardless of the scale you’re using.
Now, on the 100-meter scale, 100 meters is the “standard” or “average” height. Let’s see what happens when we make a monster with a theropod stance 100 meters tall. I’ll be using the silhouette of a Tyrannosaurus rex because it’s a pretty common dinosaur for people to base their monsters off of.
i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/InfernoRodan/SizeComparison1.png
Now, this is obviously WAY too big. At 100 meters, a monster with a theropod stance would just utterly steamroll anything in its path.
So let’s bump it down to 90 meters now.
i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/InfernoRodan/SizeComparison2.png
Better, but still too big. While it is shorter than the average, its length more than makes up for that and results in what is still a very large monster.
Now let’s shrink it a bit further, to 80 meters.
i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/InfernoRodan/SizeComparison3.png
This is acceptable, albeit barely. Despite being considerably shorter, its overall size is actually still quite a bit larger than the average, but still within reason.
Let’s go one step further and bring it down to 70 meters.
i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/InfernoRodan/SizeComparison4.png
This is also acceptable. And it’s closer to being “average” sized overall.
Just for funsies, let’s take a look at what Suchodon looks like in one of these pictures. A Baryonyx silhouette is being used as a stand-in for him.
i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/InfernoRodan/SizeComparison5.png
Finally, people seem to have trouble with length as well. A very loose rule of thumb for theropods is that their length is around 3 times their height. The Tyrannosaurus specimen nicknamed Sue, for example, is around 13 feet tall and 40 feet long.
Interestingly, doing this whole thing has made me realize I need to adjust Suchodon’s height and length...
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The “theropod stance” is when a monster is bipedal and holds its body parallel to the ground. This horizontal biped stance isn’t exclusive to theropods, of course, but they by far hold the majority. When people create monsters with this stance, they sometimes have trouble putting them into proper scale with other, existing monsters. For this study I’ll of course be using the 100-meter scale popularized by the 90's Heisei Godzilla movies, since that’s what’s used here at the UCA. But the information can be applied regardless of the scale you’re using.
Now, on the 100-meter scale, 100 meters is the “standard” or “average” height. Let’s see what happens when we make a monster with a theropod stance 100 meters tall. I’ll be using the silhouette of a Tyrannosaurus rex because it’s a pretty common dinosaur for people to base their monsters off of.
i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/InfernoRodan/SizeComparison1.png
Now, this is obviously WAY too big. At 100 meters, a monster with a theropod stance would just utterly steamroll anything in its path.
So let’s bump it down to 90 meters now.
i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/InfernoRodan/SizeComparison2.png
Better, but still too big. While it is shorter than the average, its length more than makes up for that and results in what is still a very large monster.
Now let’s shrink it a bit further, to 80 meters.
i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/InfernoRodan/SizeComparison3.png
This is acceptable, albeit barely. Despite being considerably shorter, its overall size is actually still quite a bit larger than the average, but still within reason.
Let’s go one step further and bring it down to 70 meters.
i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/InfernoRodan/SizeComparison4.png
This is also acceptable. And it’s closer to being “average” sized overall.
Just for funsies, let’s take a look at what Suchodon looks like in one of these pictures. A Baryonyx silhouette is being used as a stand-in for him.
i133.photobucket.com/albums/q54/InfernoRodan/SizeComparison5.png
Finally, people seem to have trouble with length as well. A very loose rule of thumb for theropods is that their length is around 3 times their height. The Tyrannosaurus specimen nicknamed Sue, for example, is around 13 feet tall and 40 feet long.
Interestingly, doing this whole thing has made me realize I need to adjust Suchodon’s height and length...
