Tag: heights

One moment Bumblebee is a relative size to Bulkhead, the next panel he’s the size of Bulk’s forearm. Same with any Con. One moment its just a short dude with a bunch of big ones, the next they have literally picked Bee up by the waist and he’s the size of a kindergartner compared to them.

proxyjammer:

I have to assume you’re talking about TFA bc while TFP uses a lot of camera tricks to play with characters’ perceived heights, they’re still CGI so I have to assume the models are p consistent, but TFA is not as consistent in their proportions. Some things I let pass, such as the scene where Longarm transforms into Shockwave and instead of growing 2x his size he’s only like… 3 feet taller, if that, or when Blurr and Bee are talking and Blurr is waaaaaaay too short for the scene, since those are breaking model and height in favor of story flow and being coherent, but there’s some scenes that are like… really EEEEH…

Other examples of weird sizing things and general animation errors I can think of off the top of my head:
– There’s a scene where they forget to color in the dark blue on one of Blurr’s hands
– Optimus should be roughly ¾ths Megatron but there’s at least 3 scenes I can think of where he’s shown as ½ Megs and it’s like nO MEGATRON’S HAND IS NOT THAT BIG ON HIM THIS AINT WONDER OVER YONDER THE PROTAG SHOULD NOT BE SITTING IN THE PALM OF THE BADDIE’S HAND LIKE THAT
– Not an error but I think it’s interesting that the purple toy of Shockwave has Longarm with yellow optics like Shockwave has in G1 tho in show it has him with blue optics still
– There’s 2 different ways that the animators show Shockwave’s helm from the front; sometimes it’s concave and sometimes it’s convex
– Shockwave’s elbows are meant to be at the place you’d think elbows are at but there’s at least one scene where his arm instead bends at the part that connects to the shoulder kibble, which I gUESS can be written off as he has stretchy arm abilities and technically any part of his arm can be the elbow

Also I made this on impulse a few months back based on info I know and LOTS of screenshots:

Shockwave’s height is hard to judge from screenshots, but it should be around 2x blurr, and very close to Megatron’s height. I don’t know if he’s taller or shorter tbh. Top red line is Megs btw, based on these, which I aLSO MADE ON IMPULSE BASED ON MY EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF SCREENSHOTS:

Not PERFECT, esp in the case of Lugnut bc his fuckin height is entirely based on the scene he’s in, it’s very very frustrating. But overall, I think this is probably decently accurate? give or take.